RPC (Remote Procedure Calls)

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Prerequisites

This page assumes that you either have a full node or a wallet running and listening to port 8090, locally.

Note

The set of available commands depends on application you connect to.

Call Format

In Graphene, RPC calls are state-less and accessible via regular JSON formated RPC-HTTP-calls. The correct structure of the JSON call is

{
 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
 "id": 1
 "method": "get_accounts",
 "params": [["1.2.0", "1.2.1"]],
}

The get_accounts call is available in the Full Node’s database API and takes only one argument which is an array of account ids (here: ["1.2.0", "1.2.1"]).

Example Call with `curl`

Such as call can be submitted via curl:

curl --data '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "get_accounts", "params": [["1.2.0", "1.2.1"]], "id": 1}' http://127.0.0.1:8090/rpc
Successful Calls

The API will return a properly JSON formated response carrying the same id

as the request to distinguish subsequent calls.

{
 "id":1,
 "result":  ..data..
}
Errors

In case of an error, the resulting answer will carry an error attribute and

a detailed description:

{
  "id": 0
  "error": {
    "data": {
      "code": error-code,
      "name": " .. name of exception .."
      "message": " .. message of exception ..",
      "stack": [ .. stack trace .. ],
    },
    "code": 1,
  },
}

Remarks

Wallet specific commands, such as transfer and market orders, are only available if connecting to cli_wallet because only the wallet has the private keys and signing capabilities and some calls will only execute of the wallet is unlocked.

The full node offers a set of API(s), of which only the database calls are avaiable via RPC. Calls that are restricted by default (i.e. network_node_api) or have been restricted by configuration are not accessible via RPC because a statefull protocol (websocket) is required for login.