Re: Command Line and JSON-RPC

Here is code for a simple Python API. Each method connects to the server, sends a request, gets a response, then returns a Python dictionary equivalent of the JSON. It uses standard Python modules. No error checking is done and only three functions from rpc.cpp are implemented. If there’s interest I can write more.

To use it, the Python code should be something like… access = BitcoinAPI() access.getInfo() access.getAmountReceived(“1JyEmxiMso2RsFVfBcCa616npBvGgxiBX”) access.sendToAddress(“1JyEmxiMso2RsFVfBcCa616npBvGgxiBX”, 100.00) # Send 100 Bitcoins to my Address 😁

This will be the base for automatic transactions on my site. If there are any questions or concerns let me know. If there is something severely wrong, feel free to school me.

import httplib, simplejson

class BitcoinAPI(object):

    def __init__(self, host = "127.0.0.1", port = 8332, timeout = 3):
        self.host = host
        self.port = port
        self.timeout = timeout
        self.httpHeader = {"Content-type": "application/json"}    # I don't know what needs to be in the header, but this works
        return

    def connect(self):
        self.connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(self.host, self.port, timeout = self.timeout)
        return

    def disconnect(self):
        self.connection.close()
        return

    # Functions return a python dictionary which should be equivalent to the JSON syntax received from the server
    # ident or "id" is a constant 1, but can be overridden when calling.  E.g. getAmountReceived(address, ident = 23)
    def getInfo(self, ident = 1):
        self.connect()
        params = simplejson.dumps({"method": "getinfo", "params": ], "id": ident})
        self.connection.request("POST", "/", params, self.httpHeader)
        response = self.connection.getresponse()
        #print response.status, response.reason    # Use for troubleshooting
        dictionary = simplejson.loads(response.read())
        self.disconnect()
        return dictionary

    def getAmountReceived(self, address, ident = 1):
        self.connect()
        params = simplejson.dumps({"method": "getamountreceived", "params": [address], "id": ident})
        self.connection.request("POST", "/", params, self.httpHeader)
        response = self.connection.getresponse()
        #print response.status, response.reason    # Use for troubleshooting
        dictionary = simplejson.loads(response.read())
        self.disconnect()
        return dictionary

    def sendToAddress(self, address, amount, ident = 1):
        self.connect()
        params = simplejson.dumps({"method": "sendtoaddress", "params": [address, amount], "id": ident})
        self.connection.request("POST", "/", params, self.httpHeader)
        response = self.connection.getresponse()
        #print response.status, response.reason    # Use for troubleshooting
        dictionary = simplejson.loads(response.read())
        self.disconnect()
        return dictionary