flojson

Package flojson implements the Florincoin JSON-RPC API.
This is a fork of btcjson by Conformal. Package flojson and btcjson are licensed under the liberal ISC license.

The original package btcjson is one of the core packages from btcd, an alternative full-node implementation of bitcoin which is under active development by Conformal. Although it was primarily written for btcd, this package has intentionally been designed so it can be used as a standalone package for any projects needing to communicate with a bitcoin client using the json rpc interface.

JSON RPC

Bitcoin and its desecndants provide an extensive API call list to control bitcoind or bitcoin-qt through json-rpc. These can be used to get information from the client or to cause the client to perform some action.

The general form of the commands are:

	{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"test", "method": "getinfo", "params": []}

btcjson provides code to easily create these commands from go (as some of the commands can be fairly complex), to send the commands to a running bitcoin rpc server, and to handle the replies (putting them in useful Go data structures).

Sample Use

	msg, err := btcjson.CreateMessage("getinfo")
	reply, err := btcjson.RpcCommand(user, password, server, msg)

Documentation

Full go doc style documentation for the project can be viewed online without installing this package by using the GoDoc site here.

You can also view the documentation locally once the package is installed with the godoc tool by running godoc -http=":6060" and pointing your browser to http://localhost:6060/pkg/github.com/metacoin/flojson

Installation

$ go get github.com/metacoin/flojson

If you're looking for btcjson, get it from conformal's repo

$ go get github.com/conformal/btcjson

TODO

• Add data structures for remaining commands.
• Increase test coverage to 100%.
• Add https support.

GPG Verification Key

All official release tags are signed by Conformal so users can ensure the code has not been tampered with and is coming from Conformal. To verify the signature perform the following:

• Download the public key from the Conformal website at https://opensource.conformal.com/GIT-GPG-KEY-conformal.txt

• Import the public key into your GPG keyring:

  gpg --import GIT-GPG-KEY-conformal.txt

• Verify the release tag with the following command where TAG_NAME is a placeholder for the specific tag:

  git tag -v TAG_NAME

License

Package flojson is licensed under the liberal ISC License. Package btcjson is licensed under the liberal ISC License.