Creating a subnamespace

Once you have a registered root namespace, you can create up to 3 levels of subnamespaces to organize your assets.

Prerequisites

Method #01: Using the Desktop Wallet

  1. Click on “Namespace” on the left-side menu. Go to the “Create subnamespaces” tab.
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  1. Enter information for your subnamespace. Click “Send”. Verify the information on the popup and enter your wallet password. Click “Confirm”.
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  1. You can check that the sub namespace has been created by going back to the “Owned namespaces” tab. If the subnamespace does not show, try clicking on the update icon.
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When the subnamespace is created, link the subnamespace with a mosaic or address.

Method #02: Using the SDK

The next code snippet creates a subnamespace called bar under the namespace foo.

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// replace with root namespace name
const rootNamespaceName = 'foo';
// replace with root subnamespace name
const subnamespaceName = 'bar';
// replace with network type
const networkType = NetworkType.TEST_NET;

const namespaceRegistrationTransaction = NamespaceRegistrationTransaction.createSubNamespace(
    Deadline.create(),
    subnamespaceName,
    rootNamespaceName,
    networkType,
    UInt64.fromUint(2000000));

// replace with private key
const privateKey = '1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111';
const account = Account.createFromPrivateKey(privateKey, networkType);
// replace with meta.networkGenerationHash (nodeUrl + '/node/info')
const networkGenerationHash = '1DFB2FAA9E7F054168B0C5FCB84F4DEB62CC2B4D317D861F3168D161F54EA78B';
const signedTransaction = account.sign(namespaceRegistrationTransaction, networkGenerationHash);
// replace with node endpoint
const nodeUrl = 'http://api-01.us-east-1.096x.symboldev.network:3000';
const repositoryFactory = new RepositoryFactoryHttp(nodeUrl);
const transactionHttp = repositoryFactory.createTransactionRepository();

transactionHttp
    .announce(signedTransaction)
    .subscribe((x) => console.log(x), (err) => console.error(err));
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// replace with root namespace name
const rootNamespaceName = 'foo';
// replace with root subnamespace name
const subnamespaceName = 'bar';
// replace with network type
const networkType = symbol_sdk_1.NetworkType.TEST_NET;
const namespaceRegistrationTransaction = symbol_sdk_1.NamespaceRegistrationTransaction.createSubNamespace(symbol_sdk_1.Deadline.create(), subnamespaceName, rootNamespaceName, networkType, symbol_sdk_1.UInt64.fromUint(2000000));
// replace with private key
const privateKey = '1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111';
const account = symbol_sdk_1.Account.createFromPrivateKey(privateKey, networkType);
// replace with meta.networkGenerationHash (nodeUrl + '/node/info')
const networkGenerationHash = '1DFB2FAA9E7F054168B0C5FCB84F4DEB62CC2B4D317D861F3168D161F54EA78B';
const signedTransaction = account.sign(namespaceRegistrationTransaction, networkGenerationHash);
// replace with node endpoint
const nodeUrl = 'http://api-01.us-east-1.096x.symboldev.network:3000';
const repositoryFactory = new symbol_sdk_1.RepositoryFactoryHttp(nodeUrl);
const transactionHttp = repositoryFactory.createTransactionRepository();
transactionHttp
    .announce(signedTransaction)
    .subscribe((x) => console.log(x), (err) => console.error(err));

Method #03: Using the CLI

To create a subnamespace, open a terminal window and run the following command. Replace foo with the root namespace name and bar with the new subnamespace to be created.

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symbol-cli transaction namespace --subnamespace --parent-name foo --name bar