fix(dashpay): show user-facing identity ids in base58, not hex - #1037
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A Dash Platform identity id is 32 raw bytes; the string form is a presentation choice. Base58 is what a user meets everywhere else — on Platform explorers, and wherever the app already had a dedicated property for the job (`ContactItem.identityIdBase58`, the row model's `idBase58`, the `dashpay://user` QR payload). Hex belongs in logs, cache keys and interop payloads. Four display sites formatted the id inline instead, and rendered hex: - `SDKIdentityProfileSheet` — the "Identity ID" row, in a format its own doc comment said was chosen to match the coordinator logs. - `ShieldedActivityHistory` — the `identityCreate` detail's copyable "Identity ID" row, same label and treatment. - `ContactItem.displayTitle` — the last-resort fallback, building its own hex prefix four lines above `identityIdBase58`. - `IdentitiesViewModel` — an unnamed identity's row title, truncating `identityIdString` (hex) while the same row model carried `idBase58`. All four now render or truncate base58, so an id reads the same in the app, in the `dashpay://user` payload and on an explorer. Prefix lengths are unchanged (8 and 12 characters); base58 carries more entropy per character, so the truncations stay at least as collision-resistant. Logs, UserDefaults/cache keys and Identifiable conformances keep hex, as does the raw Storage Explorer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`SDKIdentityProfileSheet` was the only reader of `DWCurrentUserIdentityInfo.identityIdHex`; moving that row to base58 left the property, its `Snapshot` field and the `@objc` surface with no callers anywhere in the app — no Swift, no Obj-C, no dynamic lookup. Remove the whole chain rather than document it as dead. The `hex` local in `rebuildSnapshot()` stays: the snapshot log line still prints its first 8 characters. Also correct the `identityId` doc comment, which claimed Obj-C callers use `identityIdHex`. They never did, and the property is gone now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughIdentity ID handling now preserves raw ChangesIdentity ID formatting
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change makes identity IDs consistently user-readable in base58 without altering non-display behavior. The only remaining issue is a trivial initializer cleanup, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@DashWallet/Sources/UI/DashPay/Profile/SDKIdentityProfileSheet.swift`:
- Line 17: Update the identityIdBase58 state declaration in
SDKIdentityProfileSheet by removing the redundant explicit nil initializer while
retaining its optional String type and existing state behavior.
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| struct SDKIdentityProfileSheet: View { | ||
| @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss | ||
| @State private var identityIdHex: String? = nil | ||
| @State private var identityIdBase58: String? = nil |
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Remove the redundant optional initializer.
SwiftLint reports implicit_optional_initialization for identityIdBase58: String? = nil. Remove = nil.
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In `@DashWallet/Sources/UI/DashPay/Profile/SDKIdentityProfileSheet.swift` at line
17, Update the identityIdBase58 state declaration in SDKIdentityProfileSheet by
removing the redundant explicit nil initializer while retaining its optional
String type and existing state behavior.
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Summary
A Dash Platform identity id is 32 raw bytes; the string form is a presentation choice. Everywhere a user meets an identity id it should be base58 — that is what Platform explorers use, and what the app already reached for whenever it had a dedicated property for the job (
ContactItem.identityIdBase58, the row model'sidBase58, thedashpay://userQR payload). Hex belongs in logs, cache keys and interop payloads.The gap was in the places that formatted an id inline instead of using those properties — including two inside the contacts and identities screens that otherwise render base58.
Four user-facing surfaces were still rendering hex, so the id shown in the app could not be compared against an explorer without decoding it by hand. This PR moves all four to base58 and leaves every non-display use of hex alone.
What changed
SDKIdentityProfileSheet— "Identity ID" rowShieldedActivityHistory—identityCreatedetail "Identity ID" rowContactItem.displayTitle— last-resort fallbackIdentitiesViewModel— unnamed identity row titleBoth prefix lengths are unchanged. base58 carries more entropy per character than hex, so the truncations stay at least as collision-resistant.
Why these were hex
The profile sheet said so in its own doc comment: it rendered hex "matching the existing coordinator logs". The format was inherited from log output rather than chosen for the reader.
IdentitiesViewModelwas internally inconsistent — the row model already carriedidBase58for the full id while the title fell back toidentityIdString(hex).ContactItembuilt its own hex prefix four lines above anidentityIdBase58property whose comment already stated base58 is "the identity id as users see it elsewhere".Deliberately unchanged
DWIdentityRegistrationCoordinator, contacts service)DWCurrentUserIdentityInfo,SwiftDashSDKContactsService)Identifiableconformances (ContactCandidate.id)DWCurrentUserIdentityInfo.identityIdHex(@objc) lost its only caller when the profile sheet moved to base58, so the second commit removes the property, itsSnapshotfield and both construction sites — nothing in the app read it, in Swift or Obj-C. Thehexlocal inrebuildSnapshot()stays, since the snapshot log line still prints its first 8 characters.One follow-up is left out of scope. In the Storage Explorer, most rows label the format explicitly (
ID (Hex),Owner ID (Hex),Contact ID (Hex)) whileIdentity ID,From,ToandPerformed Byrender hex without that qualifier. We assumed hex is deliberate there — it is a raw storage inspector — but did not verify that intent, so nothing was changed. Worth a look from whoever owns the screen: either the labels should be consistent, or those rows belong in base58 like the rest of the app.Verification
Built clean against the
dashpayscheme (ARCHS=arm64, iOS 26.5 simulator); each touched file confirmed recompiled with no new warnings.Verified on device:
identityCreaterow — displayedAY4heGwy…4RxvDfTS; the copied value is 44 characters, every character inside the base58 alphabet, decoding to exactly 32 bytes and round-tripping cleanly. No version byte, no checksum — plain base58, matchingData.toBase58String().Not exercised at runtime: the two truncated fallbacks, which require a contact with no alias/display name/username and an identity with no name at all. Both are build-verified only.
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