Class NetworkClient

Used for communicating with a remote node

Constructors

Name	Description
this (taskman, banman, retry, max_retries)	Constructor.

Methods

Name	Description
addresses ()	Convenience function to access all known addresses for this client
getBlockHeaders (heights)
getBlockHeight ()
getBlocksFrom (height, max_blocks)	Get the array of blocks starting from the provided block height. The block at height is included in the array.
getLocalTime ()	Get the local time of the node
getNodeInfo ()	Get the network info of the node, stored in the node_info parameter if the request succeeded.
getPreimages (enroll_keys)	Returns the preimages for the specified enroll keys.
getPreimagesFrom (start_height)	Get the array of pre-images starting from the enrolled_height.
getPublicKey (key)
getTransactions (tx_hashes)
getTxSet (hash)	Set of TX hashes represented by the given hash
handshake (key)
identity ()	Get the identity of this node. Full nodes return Identity.init.
isAuthenticated ()
isConnected ()
merge (address, api)	Merge connections of incoming client to this
sendBlockSignature (block_sig)	Sends a Validator Block Signature to the node.
sendEnrollment (enroll, avail_height)	Send a enrollment request asynchronously to the node. Any errors are reported to the debugging log.
sendEnvelope (envelope)	Sends an SCP envelope to another node.
sendPreimage (preimage)	Send a preimage asynchronously to the node. Any errors are reported to the debugging log.
sendTransaction (tx)	Send a transaction asynchronously to the node. Any errors are reported to the debugging log.
setIdentity (utxo, key)	Set/get the node's identity
shutdown ()	Shut down the gossiping timer
attemptRequest (args, file, line)	Attempt a request up to 'this.max_retries' attempts, and make the task wait this.retry_delay between each attempt.

Inner structs

Name	Description
GossipEvent	Outgoing gossip event

Enums

Name	Description
GossipType	Gossip type
Throw	Whether to throw an exception when attemptRequest() fails