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Examples of common flows

Here are some common architectural flows you may need to integrate into your application. These include ways to gather the prerequisite data necessary for each backend functionality described earlier.

Get a campaign's CID​

To get a hold of a campaign's IPFS CID, you can:

  1. Check the create events emitted by the Merkle factory

  2. Use the Sablier subgraphs / indexers to query for that particular piece of information.

For approach "B", run the following query against the official endpoints:

   query getCampaignData($campaignId: String!){
     campaign(id: $campaignId){
       id
       lockup
       root
       ipfsCID
       aggregateAmount
       totalRecipients
     }
   }

Check eligibility for an address​

To check if an address is eligible, you'll have to use the /api/eligibility route provided by the merkle-api backend.

Steps​

  1. Get the campaign CID (see the example above)
  2. Call the/api/eligibility route using the CID and the wallet address

Please read more on the dedicated route documentation within the /api/eligibility section of the functionality page.

As an alternative, you can also check the eligibility of an address (and bypass the backend) by simply searching for that address in the list stored within the IPFS file from step 1. You'll still have to download the file first, using its CID.

Get the tokenId after a claim​

After someone claims, you may want to show them a preview of the stream (or its NFT). To do that, you'll have to get a hold of the tokenId (or streamId) related to that user's claim.

To get a hold of a tokenId linked to a claim you can:

  1. Listen to the claim method and the Claim event emitted by the Merkle contract instance

  2. Use the Sablier subgraphs / indexers to query for that particular piece of information.

For approach "B", run the following query against the official endpoints (make sure the address is lowercased):

   query getClaimForRecipient($campaignId: String!, $recipient: String){
     actions(where: {campaign: $campaignId, category: Claim, claimRecipient: $recipient }){
       campaign{
         id
         lockup
       }
       claimTokenId
       claimRecipient
       claimIndex
     }
   }

Bonus: Stream NFT​

To get the Stream NFT, using the same query as in option "B", retrieve the lockup contract (where the Stream NFT is issued) and its tokenId. With them you can call the tokenURI method, which will return the SVG code of the onchain NFT.

Extract the SVG tags

The actual SVG tags are encoded inside the response of the tokenURI method. You can feed this blob to an HTML img tag or choose to render the SVG tags themselves. To get a hold of this code in plain format (not in base64) you could run the following Javascript code which decodes the response and

const toPart = output.split("data:application/json;base64,").pop();
const toString = Buffer.from(toPart || "", "base64").toString("utf-8");
const toJSON = JSON.parse(toString);

const blob = _.get(toJSON, "image")?.split("data:image/svg+xml;base64,")[1];
const toSVG = Buffer.from(blob || "", "base64").toString("utf-8");

Check if a user claimed their stream​

To check if a user has already claimed their stream from a campaign you can:

  1. Call the hasClaimed method form the Merkle contract instance

  2. Use the Sablier subgraphs / indexers to query for that particular piece of information.

Approach A​

For approach "A" you'll need to perform the following actions:

  1. Get a hold of the campaign's CID, Lockup contract address, and user address (for the first items, see the Get a campaign's CID example above)
  2. Check the eligibility of a user (see Eligibility example above) and extract their index
  3. Call the hasClaimed method inside the lockup contract using the index retrieved at step 2
note

The index of a particular user represents their assigned order number in the eligibility list. We use this value to generate a proof in case the recipient is eligible and to register their claim directly inside the contract.

Approach B​

For approach "B", run the same query as in the Get the tokenId after a claim example. If the query yields any results, that means the user has claimed their stream.

tip

A missing claim could also mean the user wasn't eligible in the first place. We recommend checking for eligibility alongside any existing claim checks.