CHIA-RPC 2.1.1

Welcome to the CHIA-RPC Nuget package!

This package is a wrapper for RPC-JSON files used to communicate with the Chia client through the HTTP-API, WebSocket API, or CLI.
The wrapper allows you to easily create the appropriate RPC object for all wallet endpoint calls, and deserialize the response JSON and accessing its objets.

CHIA-RPC ONLY contains the rpc wrappers (.net objects for RPC, Response and Chia Objects) In ;rder to cummiunicate with the chia client, you need to either implement your own client solution or use the Chia-Client-API package which implements all rpc endpoints and supports remote management of the chia client.

Useful links

• nuget package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/CHIA-RPC
• github repo to submit issues/requests: https://github.com/KryptomineCH/CHIA-RPC
• official chia rpc documentation: https://docs.chia.net/rpc/
• chia-client-api for communication with the chia client: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Chia-Client-API/

Usage

General functions

All classes support the following base functions:

• SaveToFile(string path): saves the rpc as a json-formatted file to the specified path on disk.
• LoadFromFile(string path): loads an rpc file from the specified path from disk.
• ToString(): returns a json-formatted string representation of the class.
• LoadObjectFromString(string json): converts a json string (eg. response) into a given object.

Types

There are 3 types in this library:

• EndpointName_RPC these classes represent the request content which is issued against the chia client.
• EndpointName_Response these classes represent the chia clients response and are beeing used to deserialize the server response into workable c# objects
• ObjectName these classes represent objects in the chia space such as a CoinRecord, a Transaction and so on

RPC Creation

Most endpoints are implemented with a constructor:

// Create a new instance of the SendXCH_RPC class
var rpc = new SendXCH_RPC(1234, "chia1q2jzm7eg5t2k8vnq3tkkf5l7zj9mfx9v7p9t5", 1000, 500, new string[] { "Transaction from Example program" })

If this is not the case or for whatever other reason, You can also creath them like so:

// Create a new instance of the SendXCH_RPC class
var rpc = new SendXCH_RPC
{
    wallet_id = 1234,
    address = "chia1q2jzm7eg5t2k8vnq3tkkf5l7zj9mfx9v7p9t5",
    amount = 10000,
    fee = 500,
    memos = new string[] { "Transaction from Example program" }
};

Some endpoints already implement Constructors which make things a litte easier:

GetNextAddress_RPC rpc = new GetNextAddress_RPC(1, false);

Some endpoins already have implicit conversions which make working a lot easier. The support is quite sparse still:

WalletID_Response walletID = WalletID_Response.LoadResponseFromString(serverResponse);
GetNextAddress_RPC rpc = new GetNextAddress_RPC(walletID);

Serialisation

in order to work with the rpcs, you want to serialize/deserialize them to and from json.

Serialisation

All classes have a .ToString() method to convert a class to json content:

WalletID_RPC rpc = new WalletID_RPC(1);
string json = rpc.Tostring();

Deserialisation

Deserialisation is implemented as static method and can be used to convert the server response:

GetNextAddress_Response nextAddress = GetNextAddress_Response.LoadResponseFromString(serverResponse);

IO

Often it can be helpful to load and store objects such as an initiated transaction to disk for later reuse:

Saving object to disk

All objects and classes implement a SaveToFile method. The method automatically appends a filename .rpc .response or .object in respect of the basetype

TransactionID_Response pendingTransaction = new TransactionID_Response();
pendingTransaction.SaveResponseToFile("C:\\temp\\pendingTransactions\\mytransaction-001");

Loading object from disk

Simmilar to the Deserialisation, loading from disk is implemented as a static method:

TransactionID_Response pendingTransaction = TransactionID_Response.LoadResponseFromFile("C:\\temp\\pendingTransactions\\mytransaction-001");

Remarks

The structure of the chia API can be confusing and many rpcs (eg WalletID_RPC) are used for multiple endpoints so it is strongly recommended to use the Chia-Client-API to see how the interaction with the RPC requests is.

Per default, the chia client will only listen to rpc requests from the local machine.
If you have remote machines to manage, eg a full node or farmers, you need to enable public port listening.
For that, edit the chia configuration (default at ~/.chia/mainnet/config/config.yaml).
Look for a line starting with self-hostname like so: self_hostname: &self_hostname "localhost"
change it to: self_hostname: 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces or to the local interface ip to listen on a specific interface.

For a full documentation besides xml markup, please refer to the official chia documentation: https://docs.chia.net/rpc

Thank you for using CHIA-RPC!

Dependencies

• https://github.com/KryptomineCH/Chia-Metadata
• https://github.com/KryptomineCH/NFT.Storage.Net