API

On this page you can find all components part of the public interface of the @unveiler.io/react-native-client package.

UnveilerClient

The UnveilerClient object maintains the connection with the API.

constructor(options): <UnveilerClient>

Parameters

• options: <Object>

  • apiKey: string (required)

  The API key to use when sending requests to the Unveiler API. You can get one at the Unveiler Dashboard.

Returns

UnveilerClient

useLazyVerifiedLocation

The useLazyVerifiedLocation hook is used to verify a user's location. As it's lazy, the user needs to manually invoke it to send the request to the Unveiler API. This can be done by calling the submit function once its defined by the hook.

The hook tracks its state using the following state machine:

The machine is initially in the registeringListener state, when it successfully registers the listener it will switch to the listening state. Once enough raw GNSS data has been collected, it will move to ready. In every state which has an outgoing edge with submit you can request the location to get verified.

An iteractive version of the state machine can be explored here.

Parameters

• options: <Object>
  • client: <UnveilerClient> Contains the API key used to make location verification requests.
  • claim?: <Object> The claim to be verified, if left empty, then it will default to collecting a claim for the user's current location, as determined by their reported GPS position.
    • point: <PointClaim>
      • location: <{latitude: number, longitude: number}> The coordinates of the point the user claims to be near at.
      • radius: <number> The distance in meters the user can be from location which would still allow their location verification request to pass.
  • minEpochs?: <number> The minimum amount of epochs of GNSS data to be collected before the location verification request can be send. Setting this to a higher value will require the user to wait longer before their location can be verified. Using a too low value will cause location verification requests to regularly fail as there would likely be too little data.
  • maxEpochs: <number> The maximum amount of epochs of GNSS data which will be send as part of the location verification request.

Returns

Property	Type	Description
state	States	The current state of this location verification hook.
submit	() => void | undefined	Callback to submit the location verification request to the Unveiler API. It will be undefined until sufficient raw GNSS data has been collected.
claim	PointClaim | undefined	Contains the validated location results from the Unveiler API. Only available after submit has been invoked and the location was in fact successfully validated.
jwt	string | undefined	Similar to claim, however now stored as a cryptographically secured JSON Web Token (JWT).
message	string | undefined	An optional message returned from the Unveiler API. Only used to retrieve the error message.
progress	{current: number, target: number} | undefined	An optional progress indicator where target is the expected total amount of units of work until the next state change and current is the amount of units of work delivered. This value is currently only available for the listening state, where it reflects the amount of GNSS epochs collected before minEpochs is reached.

VerifiedLocationProvider

Gives one shared context for location verification purposes. All its children will use the same location collection instance to verify the user's location, e.g. with useLazyVerifiedLocation. Use this when registering multiple components or hooks which use the location based verification logic, or when you want to start collecting location data before the component or hook is rendered.

Example

The example below shows how you can use the VerifiedLocationProvider to share the verified location collection proof between multiple useLazyVerifiedLocation-hook instances.

import { Text } from 'react-native'import {  UnveilerClient,  useLazyVerifiedLocation,  VerifiedLocationProvider,} from '@unveiler.io/react-native-client'
const client = new UnveilerClient({ apiKey: 'MY_API_KEY' })
// Some child component which uses a verified location hookconst MyComponent = ({ name }) => {  const { state } = useLazyVerifiedLocation({ client })
  return (    <Text>      {name}: {state}    </Text>  )}
// Our main app componentconst App = () => (  <VerifiedLocationProvider>    <MyComponent name={'Instance 1'} />    <MyComponent name={'Instance 2'} />  </VerifiedLocationProvider>)