peercoind - Based off of toorop/go-bitcoind

A Golang client library wrapping the peercoind JSON RPC API

Installation

$ go get https://github.com/saeveritt/go-peercoind

Usage

package main

import (
	"github.com/saeveritt/go-peercoind"
	"log"
)

const (
	SERVER_HOST        = "You server host"
	SERVER_PORT        = port (int)
	USER               = "user"
	PASSWD             = "passwd"
	USESSL             = false
	WALLET_PASSPHRASE  = "WalletPassphrase"
)

func main() {
	bc, err := bitcoind.New(SERVER_HOST, SERVER_PORT, USER, PASSWD, USESSL)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}

	//walletpassphrase
	err = bc.WalletPassphrase(WALLET_PASSPHRASE, 3600)
	log.Println(err)

	// backupwallet
	err = bc.BackupWallet("/tmp/wallet.dat")
	log.Println(err)


	// dumpprivkey
	privKey, err := bc.DumpPrivKey("1KU5DX7jKECLxh1nYhmQ7CahY7GMNMVLP3")
	log.Println(err, privKey)

}

Mores examples in example.go (in examples folder)

Documentation

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Unit tests

More than 100 unit tests are made.

To run tests:

$ go get github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo
$ go get github.com/onsi/gomega
$ ginkgo

Running Suite: Bitcoind Suite	
=============================
Random Seed: 1401120770
Will run 112 of 112 specs

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Ran 112 of 112 Specs in 0.001 seconds
SUCCESS! -- 112 Passed | 0 Failed | 0 Pending | 0 Skipped PASS

Ginkgo ran in 10.856335553s
Test Suite Passed

Todo

• GetBlockTemplate
• sendrawtransaction
• signrawtransaction
• submitblock

Note on SSL support

Note on ssl support : bitcoind library doesn't verify the server's certificate chain. That means that it accepts any certificate presented by the server and any host name in that certificate. In this mode, TLS is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Donation

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