Aragon API issues

[FRYoussef]

Add Aragon as a new ecosystem in DAO-Analyzer.

Unlike DAOstack and DAOhaus, which have a unique API, Aragon is composed of several. They provide a library, Aragon Connect, used as middleware of all of its APIs. However, DAO-Analyzer uses directly GraphQL to fetch its data.

So, here are the main Aragon APIs which DAO-Analyzer will use:

• Aragon-Mainnet allows fetching data of DAOs(Organization schema) and its Apps(App schema).
• Aragon-Tokens allows fetching data of DAO members (Token Holder schema), and the data of tokens (MiniMeToken schema).
• Aragon-Voting allows fetching data of proposals (vote schema), and for votes (Cast schema).
• Aragon-Finance allows fetching data of transactions (Transaction schema).

[FRYoussef]

There are no names for organizations and no creation date for token holders.

However, they could be added.

• Subgraph: Add organization names

• Subgraph: TokenHolder creation timestamp

[FRYoussef]

Aragon Voting app for xDai network is not available.

[daviddavo]

Aragon Connect changed the data type of voter and removed voterStake at aragon/connect@0601614

This is causing issues displaying cast votes among other things

[daviddavo]

The subgraphs aragon-voting, aragon-finance, etc don't exist any more
aragon/connect#328

[daviddavo]

To show the name, we could download and use https://github.com/aragon/client/blob/master/src/known-organizations/index.js

[daviddavo]

Aragon API Issues Overview

• Some subgraphs like aragon-finance don't exist any more. But maybe they could be re-deployed.
• There is a node.js API called Aragon Connect, but it hasn't had a commit since 2020, and the code uses the subgraphs that ceased to exist.
• Now they are focusing on Aragon Client, and reading the docs I just found out that they sometimes use aragonAPI, but it seems to be mainly focused on apps. Reading the code, we could extract how they access the info, or we could use ipfs (or an ipfs gateway) to "scrape" the data, but I still don't know enough about neither IPFS nor how Aragon Client works

[daviddavo]

The subgraphs aragon-voting, aragon-finance, etc don't exist any more aragon/connect#328

I redeployed them and updated the endpoints.

The only thing missing now are the organization names. We can:

• Manually get this file and translate it to Python
• Use something like js2py to "run" the file

[daviddavo]

Use something like js2py to "run" the file

Impossible, the file uses ECMAScript 6

Instead of manually translating the file to python, maybe creating a simple bash (or node) script that clones the repo and updates the file in a GitHub action would be better? It could be set-up to run weekly, so it gets timely updates from the client repo

[daviddavo]

I can't seem to create a simple script to get the KnownOrganizations constant from the module, keep only the needed data, and write it to a file to json. After two days trying, I still don't know how to "get" the constant from my script.

The error:

./scripts/extract-known-orgs
/home/davo/Documents/GRASIA/client/src/known-organizations/index.js:1
import aragonGovernanceImage from './images/aragon-governance.svg'
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
    at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:352:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1031:15)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1065:27)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/davo/Documents/GRASIA/client/scripts/extract-known-orgs:3:12)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)

And the script:

#!/usr/bin/env node

const ko = require('../src/known-organizations').KnownOrganizations
console.log(ko.KnowOrganizations)

I think I'll have to somehow extract what we want with awk and bash

[daviddavo]

Not a lot of names yet, but we have 27 of them...