voting-module-adapter

@dao-dao/stateful/voting-module-adapter

Author: @NoahSaso

Adapters

Adapter	Summary
DaoVotingCw20Staked	CW20 token staked balance voting.
DaoVotingCw4	CW4 group voting, multisig style.
DaoVotingNativeStaked	Native token staked balance voting.
Fallback	Fallback to allow for DAO page rendering even with an unsupported voting module.

Layout

Location	Summary
adapters	Voting module adapters.
components	Components shared between adapters.
react	The external React interface used by apps and packages when using this voting module adapter system. This uses the core logic under the hood.
core.ts	The core logic that matches and loads an adapter from the available adapters.

What is it?

This is a voting module adapter package. It creates a common interface for various components and pieces of data that apps need to access which change based on the voting module used by the DAO. For example, a DAO that uses a CW20 governance token for voting power will need to display staking interfaces and wallet token balances, whereas a CW4 multisig will just need to display member voting weights.

Why is this necessary?

Before this adapter system was implemented, we had a VotingModuleType enum that was accessible everywhere via a Provider, and we had conditional statements littering the codebase which contributed to poor readability and extensibility. This made data fetching and error handling difficult and unclear: because we can't conditionally call React hooks, we were attempting to load all data that could potentially be needed by any voting module, using conditional statements to check which data we expected to be defined. This led to, unsurprisingly, confusing and unreadable code. And we only had two voting modules at the time of writing this!

React Setup

1. Wrap the app

Add the VotingModuleAdapterProvider to your app, likely at a high enough level to encompass the entire app or entire pages. At this point, you must already know the contract name of the voting module (from the info query) so that the correct adapter can be chosen and its interface passed down to descendant components. You will also need to pass some options, like the contract address of the DAO's core contract.

import { VotingModuleAdapterProvider } from '@dao-dao/stateful/voting-module-adapter'

const App = () => (
  <VotingModuleAdapterProvider
    contractName={votingModuleContractName}
    options={{
      votingModuleAddress,
      coreAddress,
    }}
  >
    {children}
  </VotingModuleAdapterProvider>
)

In the @dao-dao/dapp Next.js app, votingModuleAddress, votingModuleContractName, and coreAddress are fetched via getStaticProps and passed to a common page wrapper component, on each page.

Code

const coreAddress = context.params.address as string

const cwClient = await cosmWasmClientRouter.connect(CHAIN_RPC_ENDPOINT)
const coreClient = new CwCoreV1QueryClient(cwClient, coreAddress)

const votingModuleAddress = await coreClient.votingModule()
const votingModuleContractName = (
  await cwClient.queryContractSmart(votingModuleAddress, {
    info: {},
  })
).info.contract

2. Use the hook

Now that the library has been setup, we can use the hook anywhere as a descendant of the Provider to access the voting module adapter interface.

import { SuspenseLoader } from '@dao-dao/stateful'
import { Loader } from '@dao-dao/stateless'
import { useVotingModuleAdapter } from '@dao-dao/stateful/voting-module-adapter'

const DaoThinInfoDisplay = () => {
  const {
    ui: { DaoThinInfoContent },
  } = useVotingModuleAdapter()

  return (
    <SuspenseLoader fallback={<Loader />}>
      <DaoThinInfoContent />
    </SuspenseLoader>
  )
}

Writing an adapter

It's very easy to write an adapter, especially because TypeScript will tell you what fields and types you need based on the shared interface. You can also reference the existing adapters which follow the exact same pattern.

All you need to do is define an adapter object and register it using the registration function shown above.

import { VotingModuleAdapter } from '@dao-dao/types/voting-module-adapter'

const MyVotingModuleAdapter: VotingModuleAdapter = {
  id: 'my_voting_module_adapter_id',
  contractNames: ['my_voting_module'],

  load: (options) => ({
    hooks: {
      ...
    },

    components: {
      ...
    },
  }),
}