pyrchain

Interface to RChain RNode RPC.

Install

Pyrchain is Python 3 library for interfacing with RChain RNode gRPC API. The library is distributed via PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/pyrchain/). You can install it for current user by running:

pip3 install -U pyrchain

See setup.py for information about 3rd party library dependencies.

Examples

The features below are provided in pyrchain.

1. generate private key and public key
2. sign a deploy with the private key
3. use grpc api to interact with rnode
4. Vault Api of rchain to do transfer and check balance

Development

To install the development package:

pip install -e .[dev]

To update protocol buffers from upstream run:

./update-protobufs
./update-generated

This first command will fetch latest RChain *.proto files from dev branch into ./protobuf directory. The second command will generate gRPC Python code corresponding to the protcol buffers into rchain.pb package (./rchain/pb).

To run integration tests run:

python -m pytest rchain/tests
python -m mypy rchain
isort --recursive --check-only rchain