bootstrapsp / miu

Developing with Hyperledger Indy made easy.

Miu

Miu is a gRPC based python server enabling developers to easily connect and develop Hyperledger Indy based clients using Hyperledger Indy SDK.

Overview

Miu introduces all the goodness of gRPC and writing Indy client in your favourite programing language, the ones supported by gRPC. Extending the list of programing languages in which the Indy SDK is currently provided see libindy SDK

Motivation

Being able to code Indy clients in Golang. :D

Concept

Miu is implemented in gRPC python using the Indy SDK for Python. This now allows us to build Hyperledger Indy SDK based clients using gRPC which can communicate with Miu in high performant Protobuf protocol.

Design Overview

Here's a quick concept overview Miu-Approach

Current state with this release

Current release covers implementation for most of the modules from Indy SDK, precisely speaking :

• Anoncreds
• Blob Storage
• Crypto
• DID
• Ledger
• NonSecret
• Pairwise
• Pool
• Wallet

Project structure

grpc_server folder contains Indy SDK module implementation in python

identityLayer folder contains all the proto files describing the gRPC structure with RPCs and messages

config.json used for configuring the indy node IP address and the pool transaction genesis file.

Note: You'll need to add pool_transactions_genesis file first before configuring in the config.json

Installation and trying out

Pre-req

You'll need Indy node / Server before going through with steps defined below. See How to install Test network.

Once ready use following steps to start with Miu setup

1. Install python 3

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6

2. Clone miu repository

3. CD into the location where you have cloned

4. Create virtualenv:

python3 -m venv my_venv

5. Activate virtualenv

    source ./my_venv/bin/activate

6. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Run the miu interface

python server.py

This will start the server on localhost:50051. You then will have to connect your gRPC client to this.

What's next

Of course we'd appreciate help to further enhance this project. Post this alpha release we are looking to work on

• Fixing bugs to stablize this release
• Writing test cases for the Miu interface for automated testing
• Enhanced logging
• And more...