erigon-pulse/docs/readthedocs/source/rpc/tutorial.rst
Giulio rebuffo 18cbfbf716
added tutorial for custom rpcdaemon (#1231)
* added tutorial for custom rpcdaemon

* refactored rpcdaemon
2020-10-13 11:29:42 +01:00

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Tutorial: Build a personalized daemon
=====================================
For the following tutorial, we will make references to https://github.com/Giulio2002/hello-tg-daemon.
We are going to build our daemon using golang and turbo-geth packages, so first of all we are going to create a file in which we are going to store our API methods and informations. (`api.go`).
our daemon will only contain one method: `myNamespace_getBlockNumberByHash` which will return the block number associated to certain hash.
.. code-block:: go
package main
import (
"context"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/common"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/core/rawdb"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/ethdb"
)
// API - implementation of ExampleApi
type API struct {
kv ethdb.KV
db ethdb.Getter
}
type ExampleAPI interface {
GetBlockNumberByHash(ctx context.Context, hash common.Hash) (uint64, error)
}
func NewAPI(kv ethdb.KV, db ethdb.Getter) *API {
return &API{kv: kv, db: db}
}
func (api *API) GetBlockNumberByHash(ctx context.Context, hash common.Hash) (uint64, error) {
return rawdb.ReadBlockByHash(api.db, hash).NumberU64(), nil
}
The type `Api` is the type that is going to contain the methods for our custom daemon. This type has two members: `kv` and `db` which are objects used to interact with the turbo-geth node remotely. they behave like normal db objects and can be used alongside with the rawdb package.
In our example we are making an rpcdaemon call that by receiving a certain block hash, it give the block number associated as an output. this is all done in `GetBlockNumberByHash`.
Now we are going to make our `main.go` where we are going to serve the api we made in `api.go`.
.. code-block:: go
package main
import (
"context"
"os"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/cmd/rpcdaemon/cli"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/cmd/rpcdaemon/commands"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/cmd/utils"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/common"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/ethdb"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/log"
"github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth/rpc"
"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)
func main() {
cmd, cfg := cli.RootCommand()
cmd.RunE = func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
db, backend, err := cli.OpenDB(*cfg)
if err != nil {
log.Error("Could not connect to remoteDb", "error", err)
return nil
}
apiList := APIList(db, backend, cfg)
return cli.StartRpcServer(cmd.Context(), *cfg, apiList)
}
if err := cmd.ExecuteContext(utils.RootContext()); err != nil {
log.Error(err.Error())
os.Exit(1)
}
}
func APIList(kv ethdb.KV, eth ethdb.Backend, cfg *cli.Flags) []rpc.API {
dbReader := ethdb.NewObjectDatabase(kv)
api := NewAPI(kv, dbReader)
customAPIList := []rpc.API{
{
Namespace: "myNamespace",
Public: true,
Service: ExampleAPI(api),
Version: "1.0",
},
}
// Add default TurboGeth api's
return commands.APIList(kv, eth, *cfg, customAPIList)
}
In the main we are just running our rpcdaemon as we defined it in `APIList`, in fact in `APIList` we are configuring our custom rpcdaemon to serve the ExampleAPI's mathods on namespace `myNamespace` meaning that in order to call GetBlockNumberByHash via json rpc we have to call method `myNamespace_getBlockNumberByHash`.
Let's now try it:
.. code-block:: sh
$ go build
$ ./hello-tg-daemon --http.api=myNamespace # the flag enables our namespace.
**Note: Remember to run turbo-geth with --private.api.addr=localhost:9090**
now it should be all set and we can test it with:
.. code-block:: sh
another example of custom daemon can be found at https://github.com/torquem-ch/project-1/blob/master/api.go.
Happy Building ~~~.