lightchain-wallet-backend v1.0.0

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turtlecoin-wallet-backend

Provides an interface to the TurtleCoin network, allowing wallet applications to be built.

• Downloads blocks from the network, either through a traditional daemon, or a blockchain cache for increased speed
• Processes blocks, decrypting transactions that belong to the user
• Sends and receives transactions

Installation

NPM:

npm install git+https://git@github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin-wallet-backend-js.git --save

Yarn:

yarn add https://github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin-wallet-backend-js

Documentation

You can view the documentation here: https://turtlecoin.github.io/turtlecoin-wallet-backend-js/

Quick Start

Javascript

const WB = require('turtlecoin-wallet-backend');

(async () => {
    const daemon = new WB.ConventionalDaemon('127.0.0.1', 11898);
    /* OR
    const daemon = new WB.BlockchainCacheApi('blockapi.turtlepay.io, true);
    */
    
    const wallet = WB.WalletBackend.createWallet(daemon);

    console.log('Created wallet');

    await wallet.start();

    console.log('Started wallet');

    /* After some time...
    wallet.stop();
    */

})().catch(err => {
    console.log('Caught promise rejection: ' + err);
});

Typescript

import { WalletBackend, ConventionalDaemon, BlockchainCacheApi } from 'turtlecoin-wallet-backend';

(async () => {
    const daemon: ConventionalDaemon = new ConventionalDaemon('127.0.0.1', 11898);

    /* OR
    const daemon: BlockchainCacheApi = new BlockchainCacheApi('blockapi.turtlepay.io, true);
    */
    
    const wallet: WalletBackend = WalletBackend.createWallet(daemon);

    console.log('Created wallet');

    await wallet.start();

    console.log('Started wallet');

    /* After some time...
    wallet.stop();
    */

})().catch(err => {
    console.log('Caught promise rejection: ' + err);
});

Logging

By default, the logger is disabled. You can enable it like so:

wallet.setLogLevel(LogLevel.DEBUG);

The logger uses console.log, i.e. it outputs to stdout.

If you want to change this, or want more control over what messages are logged, you can provide a callback for the logger to call.

wallet.setLoggerCallback((prettyMessage, message, level, categories) => {
    if (categories.includes(LogCategory.SYNC)) {
        console.log(prettyMessage);
    }
});

In this example, we only print messages that fall into the SYNC category.

You can view available categories and log levels in the documentation below.

Things To Note

By default, coinbase transactions are not scanned. This is due to the sync process taking quite a long time with the less efficient JavaScript crypto code, and the majority of people not having solo mined any blocks.

If you wish to enable coinbase transaction scanning, run this line of code:

wallet.scanCoinbaseTransactions(true);

Building (For Developers)

git clone https://github.com/zpalmtree/turtlecoin-wallet-backend.git

cd turtlecoin-wallet-backend

npm install -g yarn (Skip this if you already have yarn installed)

yarn build

Generated javascript files will be written to the dist/lib/ folder.

Running tests

yarn test - This will run the basic tests

yarn test-all - This will run all tests, including performance tests. You need a daemon running on 127.0.0.1:11898 for these to work.

Building documentation

yarn docs

Contributing

Please run yarn style to ensure your changes adhere to the tslint rules before committing.

You can try running yarn style --fix to automatically fix issues.