@aptos-labs/wallet-adapter-core should expose account() method

[vanya2h]

Hey Aptos team. I was using @aptos-labs/[email protected] and there's no way how can I understand whether user authorized within the wallet or not. It's needed to restore the connection after page reload.

Basically my strategy is:

• IF account() returns authorized account
• • CALL .connect()
• ELSE
• • Don't do anything and not bother the user with wallet UI requests

account() taken from docs: https://aptos.dev/standards/wallets#get-account

I was trying to extend your WalletCore class but all needed fields are private so I can't make it externally

[0xmaayan]

Hi @vanya2h , the adapter Provider has an autoConnect prop you can use to auto connect an authorized connected wallet.

<AptosWalletAdapterProvider
    autoConnect={true}
>

You can check it on the demo dapp https://aptos-labs.github.io/aptos-wallet-adapter/

[vanya2h]

Hey @0xmaayan . We're not using react adapter here, we primarily using your core entity @aptos-labs/wallet-adapter-core. Because we have our own connection adapter library since we're multichain (evm and others)

And autoConnect couldn't work as to me, it just simply calls connect in useEffect which should lead to triggering the wallet UI and it bothers users since we should call connect only when we're know it's authorized within the website

the analogue technique is in EVM when you calling eth_getAccounts before you restoring your connection

[0xmaayan]

Hi @vanya2h , I see. This is what our React Provider does to handle autoConnect https://github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-wallet-adapter/blob/main/packages/wallet-adapter-react/src/WalletProvider.tsx#L169-L178 and the core component is already setting the wallet in local storage https://github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-wallet-adapter/blob/main/packages/wallet-adapter-core/src/WalletCore.ts#L662