JSON RPC API Functionality

[metachris]

Work in progress, now already in dev. See also #273 for tracking issues.

Links:

• http://docs.neo.org/en-us/node/api.html
• https://github.com/neo-project/neo/blob/master/neo/Network/RPC/RpcServer.cs
• http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification
• dry coded rpc server bodies by @ixje
• example calls at neo-cli-json-rpc-docs.md

Initial calls:

• getaccountstate
• getbestblockhash
• getblockcount
• getblockhash
• getblocksysfee
• getconnectioncount
• getrawmempool
• getpeers
• getrawtransaction
• getstorage
• getversion
• sendrawtransaction
• validateaddress
• invoke
• invokefunction
• invokescript
• getassetstate
• getblock (int)
• getblock (hash)
• gettxout (the C# side is broken #156)
• getcontractstate (TODO: can't successfully run this call against the live nodes)
• getbalance
• getnewaddress

Additional calls

• listaddress (more info)
• getapplicationlog (more info)
• dumpprivkey
• sendtoaddress
• sendmany

See also:

• JsonRpcApi input & output differs from C# #233 (JsonRpcApi input & output differs from C#)

[ixje]

fyi; I'm working on gettxout, but the C# side is broken #156

[metachris]

added 2 new calls to the list:

• listaddress (see this)
• getapplicationlog (see this)

[ixje]

The list can be updated as follows:

initial calls

• check getstorage

Implemented, but giving different results from neo-cli

• getassetstate and getblock are done and can be moved to the top list and checked.

Problems

• gettxout can be moved to initial and checked
• getcontractstate is implemented, but I can't validate it against the C# node as their examples are not working. I tried running the RPX contract hash (that we use in our tests) against the C# RPC call but it still throws "Unknown contract". Should investigate more

Additional calls
the following can be checked as implemented
invoke
invokescript
invokefunction
validateaddress

[metachris]

Updated the list. Should we keep this issue open as a reminder what we could do?

[dethos]

@metachris I think we can update the issue checklist. getpeers and listaddress were implemented since the last update.

[metachris]

Thanks, done

[dethos]

@metachris perhaps we could update the checklist again. From the unchecked items, sendtoaddress and sendmany were already added.

[dethos]

getapplicationlog seems to no longer exist on version 2.9.0 of neo-cli documentation. Perhaps it should be removed from the list, no?

[ixje]

deviations from the NEO JSON api are generally reported in separate issues by users. I don't think this post has any use anymore.