gistfile1.txt

//This seems to be how ethers wants you to connect to web3. 
let provider = new ethers.providers.Web3Provider(web3.currentProvider)
let signer = provider.getSigner(0)

//Ok now I have this signers object...what do I do with it? Orbit seems to want a Wallet instead. 
//I can't seem to find a way to create the actual "Wallet" object.


let keystore = Keystore.create(keypath)


const type = EthIdentityProvider.type

const options = {
    type: type,
    keystore: keystore,
    signer: signer //This sort of works in that it successfull returns an Identity object that seems correct, but it won't actually let me write anything to a store that I give permissions to. I've also tried calling this "wallet" like in the test. 
}

let identity = await Identities.createIdentity(options)


const orbitdb = await OrbitDB.createInstance(ipfs, {
    directory: "./orbitdb",
    identity: identity
})

console.log(JSON.stringify(orbitdb.identity)) 
//actually prints out things that appear correct-ish
{
  "id": "0x3c2EB33A71A4A5E8e2A25dfEe8bebD64BBD9404e",
  "publicKey": "04bf2560d196b1533903cf0a11f2828b2a00a6ca5d80c48f39f79066d74bbc12143ef54fc076afb37cbdc1c209fe23e3130fdbb6fd61a2da159c3a41a979777728",
  "signatures": {
    "id": "3044022058688d54fb3f64538aa256ae7ac133cb7da2aa8d4a81efa0d404a3545bf0dbfa02200a27b0678b702fced9931aafbd867bba0faccc7ad685c477697d02a5d285f1de",
    "publicKey": "0x50c026658d50504f4e4cf70ace12ff7dbd85e567322b9cc55deba169b58e0d041ae2d44e5d0961fd97768bb17cf0b123375528f0c770ffb4d2531595b06686271b"
  },
  "type": "ethereum"
}

let store = await orbitdb.feed("test-post", {
    accessController: {
            write: [orbitdb.identity.publicKey]
    }
})


await this.store.add(post)

//prints "Error: Could not append entry, key "0x3c2EB33A71A4A5E8e2A25dfEe8bebD64BBD9404e" is not allowed to write to the log"

//Do I need to pass the identity to the feed store too somehow? 

//If I change the accessController to be
//write: [orbitdb.identity.id]
//it actually does work. But this was from trial and error and not from any documentation I can find. So I worry it's not correct. 

@ptoner lgtm except I think line 14 should be:

const options = {
    type: type,
    keystore: keystore,
    wallet: signer
}

and line 40:

let store = await orbitdb.feed("test-post", {
    accessController: {
            write: [orbitdb.identity.id]
    }
})