From a4d8ff531b5e327f0e6400be8aa3bb48f4be50ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: getlarge <ed@getlarge.eu>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:04:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add example usage

Signed-off-by: getlarge <ed@getlarge.eu>
---
 README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index af5d23b..ad89e6a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ import driver from 'bigchaindb-driver'
 
 ```js
 const driver = require('bigchaindb-driver')
+const base58 = require('bs58');
+const { Ed25519Sha256 } = require('crypto-conditions');
 
 // BigchainDB server instance (e.g. https://example.com/api/v1/)
 const API_PATH = 'http://localhost:9984/api/v1/'
@@ -89,6 +91,21 @@ const tx = driver.Transaction.makeCreateTransaction(
 // Sign the transaction with private keys
 const txSigned = driver.Transaction.signTransaction(tx, alice.privateKey)
 
+// Or use delegateSignTransaction to provide your own signature function
+function signTransaction() {
+    // get privateKey from somewhere
+    const privateKeyBuffer = Buffer.from(base58.decode(alice.privateKey))
+    return function sign(transaction, input, transactionHash) {
+        const ed25519Fulfillment = new Ed25519Sha256();
+        ed25519Fulfillment.sign(
+            Buffer.from(transactionHash, 'hex'),
+            privateKeyBuffer
+        );
+        return ed25519Fulfillment.serializeUri();
+    };
+}
+const txSigned = driver.Transaction.delegateSignTransaction(tx, signTransaction())
+
 // Send the transaction off to BigchainDB
 const conn = new driver.Connection(API_PATH)