# README
go-tezos
go-tezos is a Go client library that is used to interact with a Tezos' nodes RPC methods.
Work in progress, contributions welcome.
This client RPC library is in development and should be considered alpha. Contributors are welcome. We will start to tag releases of this library in November 2018.
The library will be useful to anyone wanting to build tools, products or services on top of the Tezos RPC API in go.
The library will be:
- Well tested
- Nightly Integration tests against official Tezos docker images
- Written in Idiomatic Go
- Aim to have complete coverage of the Tezos API and stay up to date with new RPCs or changes to existing RPCs
Documentation
Library documentation lives in the code as godoc comments. Readers can view up-to-date documentation here: https://godoc.org/github.com/ecadlabs/go-tezos
Contributions
Reporting issues/feature requests
Please use the GitHub issue tracker to report bugs or request features.
Contribution
To contribute, please check the issue tracker to see if an existing issue exists for your planned contribution. If there's no Issue, please create one first, and then submit a pull request with your contribution.
For a contribution to be merged, it must be well documented, come with unit tests, and integration tests where appropriate. Submitting a "Work in progress" pull request is welcome!
Reporting Security Issues
If a security vulnerabiltiy in this project is discovered, please report the
issue to [email protected] or to jevonearth
on keybase.io
Reports may be encrypted using keys published on keybase.io
Tezos RPC API documentation
The best known RPC API docs are available here: http://tezos.gitlab.io/mainnet/
Users of go-tezos
- A prometheus metrics exporter for a Tezos node https://github.com/ecadlabs/tezos_exporter
Development
Running a tezos RPC node using docker-compose
To run a local tezos RPC node using docker, run the following command:
docker-compose up
The node will generate an identity and then, it will the chain from other nodes on the network. The process of synchronizing or downloading the chain can take some time, but most of the RPC will work while this process completes.
The alphanet
image tag means you are not interacting with the live mainnet
.
You can connect to mainnet
with the tezos/tezos:mainnet
image, but it takes
longer to sync.
The docker-compose.yml
file uses volumes, so when you restart the node, it
won't have to regenerate an identity, or sync the entire chain.
Running a tezos RPC node using docker
If you want to run a tezos node quickly, without using docker-compose
try:
docker run -it --rm --name tezos_node -p 8732:8732 tezos/tezos:alphanet tezos-node
Interacting with tezos RPC
With the tezos-node docker image, you can test that the RPC interface is working:
curl localhost:8732/network/stat
The tezos-client cli is available in the docker image, and can be run as follows:
docker exec -it tezos_node tezos-client -A 0.0.0.0 man
docker exec -it tezos_node tezos-client -A 0.0.0.0 rpc list
Create a shell alias that you can run from your docker host for convenience;
alias tezos-client='sudo docker exec -it -e TEZOS_CLIENT_UNSAFE_DISABLE_DISCLAIMER=Y tezos_node tezos-client -A 0.0.0.0'