doc.go

// Copyright 2018 The klaytn Authors
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// This file is derived from accounts/accounts.go (2018/06/04).
// Modified and improved for the klaytn development.

/*
Package accounts implements high level Klaytn account management.

There are several important data structures and their hierarchy is as below
 Manager -> Backend -> Wallet -> Account

Source Files

Each file provides the following features
 - accounts.go	: Provides `Account` struct and Wallet/Backend interfaces. `Account` represents a Klaytn account located at a specific location defined by the optional URL field. `Wallet` represents a software or hardware wallet and `Backend` is a wallet provider that may contain a batch of accounts they can sign transactions with
 - errors.go	: Provides various account related error variables and helper functions
 - hd.go		: Defines derivation paths for Klaytn and parser function to derive the path from a path string. Klaytn uses 8217 as its coin type
 - manager.go 	: Provides `Manager` which is an overarching account manager that can communicate with various backends for signing transactions
 - url.go 	: Provides `URL` struct which represents the canonical identification URL of a wallet or account
*/
package accounts