DFINITY's Rust Agent Repository

Contributing

Please follow the guidelines in the CONTRIBUTING.md document.

Building

We use cargo to build this repo. Make sure you have rust stable installed. To build the repo:

cargo build

Testing

There are two suites of tests that can be executed from this repo; the regular cargo tests and the ic-ref tests. In order to run the ic-ref tests, you will need a running local reference server. If you do not have one, those tests will be ignored.

Packages

This repo has multiple packages in its Cargo workspace.

Package Name	Links	Description
ic-agent		The ic-agent is a library to talk directly to the Replica.
ic-types		A list of types relevant to talking to the Replica, and building canisters on the Internet Computer.
ic-utils		A library of utilities for managing calls and canisters.
icx		A command line utility to use the agent. Not meant to be published, only available in this repo for tests.
ref-tests		A package that only exists to run the ic-ref tests with the ic-agent as the connection.