Create And Update Profiles

This section covers how to create and update profiles on the Subsocial blockchain.

Create A Profile#

substateApi.tx.profiles.createProfile(content)

🅸 IpfsContent is function that return substrate like implementation for enum { IPFS: "CID of your content"}.

Example:

import { IpfsContent } from "@subsocial/types/substrate/classes"

...
const cid = await ipfs.saveContent({
  about: 'Subsocial official account.',
  avatar: 'Qmasp4JHhQWPkEpXLHFhMAQieAH1wtfVRNHWZ5snhfFeBe', // ipfsImageCid = await api.subsocial.ipfs.saveFile(file)
  name: 'Subsocial',
})

const tx = substrateApi.tx.profiles.createProfile(IpfsContent('bafyreib3mgbou4xln42qqcgj6qlt3cif35x4ribisxgq7unhpun525l54e'))
...

Update A Profile#

substateApi.tx.profiles.updateProfile(update: ProfileUpdateType)

Update properties:
1: content: IpfsContent is a function that returns a substrate like implementation for enum { IPFS: "CID of your content"}.

Example:

import { IpfsContent } from "@subsocial/types/substrate/classes"

...
const cid = await ipfs.saveContent({
  about: 'Subsocial official account.',
  avatar: 'Qmasp4JHhQWPkEpXLHFhMAQieAH1wtfVRNHWZ5snhfFeBe',
  name: 'Subsocial updated', //updated field
})

const update = { content: IpfsContent(cid) }

const tx = substrateApi.tx.profiles.updateProfile(update)
...

🆃 ProfileUpdateType: { content: OptionContent }