chore: add utility to compress pubkey

src/app/global/utils.nim

@@ -141,3 +141,6 @@ QtObject:
 
   proc getColorHashAsJson*(self: Utils, publicKey: string): string {.slot.} =
     procs_from_visual_identity_service.getColorHashAsJson(publicKey)
+
+  proc getCompressedPk*(self: Utils, publicKey: string): string {.slot.} =
+    procs_from_accounts.compressPk(publicKey)

src/app_service/service/accounts/service.nim

@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ proc getImportedAccount*(self: Service): GeneratedAccountDto =
 proc isFirstTimeAccountLogin*(self: Service): bool =
   return self.isFirstTimeAccountLogin
 
+proc compressPk*(publicKey: string): string =
+  try:
+    let response = status_account.compressPk(publicKey)
+    if(not response.error.isNil):
+      error "error compressPk: ", errDescription = response.error.message
+    result = response.result
+
+  except Exception as e:
+    error "error: ", procName="compressPk", errName = e.name, errDesription = e.msg
+
 proc generateAliasFromPk*(publicKey: string): string =
   return status_account.generateAlias(publicKey).result.getStr
 

src/backend/accounts.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import json, json_serialization, chronicles, nimcrypto
+import json, json_serialization, chronicles, nimcrypto, strutils
 import ./core, ./utils
 import ./response_type
 
@@ -52,6 +52,22 @@ proc generateAddresses*(paths: seq[string]): RpcResponse[JsonNode] {.raises: [Ex
     error "error doing rpc request", methodName = "generateAddresses", exception=e.msg
     raise newException(RpcException, e.msg)
 
+proc compressPk*(publicKey: string): RpcResponse[string] =
+  let secp256k1Code = "0xe701"
+  let base58btc = "z"
+  var multiCodecKey = publicKey
+  multiCodecKey.removePrefix("0x")
+  multiCodecKey.insert(secp256k1Code)
+
+  let response = status_go.multiformatSerializePublicKey(multiCodecKey, base58btc)
+
+  # json response indicates error
+  try:
+    let jsonReponse = parseJson(response)
+    result.error = RpcError(message: jsonReponse["error"].getStr())
+  except JsonParsingError as e:
+    result.result = response
+
 proc generateAlias*(publicKey: string): RpcResponse[JsonNode] {.raises: [Exception].} =
   try:
     let response = status_go.generateAlias(publicKey)

ui/imports/utils/Utils.qml

@@ -618,6 +618,21 @@ QtObject {
         return JSON.parse(jsonObj)
     }
 
+    function getCompressedPk(publicKey) {
+        if (publicKey === "") {
+            return ""
+        }
+        return globalUtils.getCompressedPk(publicKey)
+    }
+
+    function getElidedCompressedPk(publicKey) {
+        if (publicKey === "") {
+            return ""
+        }
+        let compressedPk = getCompressedPk(publicKey)
+        return compressedPk.substr(3, 3) + "..." + compressedPk.substr(compressedPk.length - 3)
+    }
+
     function getTimeDifference(d1, d2) {
         var timeString = ""
         var day1Year = d1.getFullYear()