Core API SDK

This SDK is a thin wrapper around the Babylon Core API.

License

The Core API SDK code is released under an Apache 2.0 license. The executable components are licensed under the Radix Software EULA.

Structure

The CoreApiClient is the main exported object. It includes high-level wrappers around every sub-API:

• LTS / lts - For long term support/backward compatible endpoints aimed at integrators such as exchanges.
• Status - For status and configuration details for the node / engine.
• Mempool - For information on the contents of the node's mempool.
• State - For reading the state of entities.
• Stream - For reading the committed transactions.
• Transaction - For transaction construction, preview, submission, and monitoring the status of an individual transaction.

All high level wrappers internally instantiate classes generated from OpenAPI specification. In order to query automatically generated code, you can either use innerClient property on each of high level APIs or access them through coreApiClient.lowLevel.X where X is each of the different sub-APIs.

End-to-end examples

See here for a full end-to-end example working with the TypeScript Radix Engine Toolkit.

Client creation

You can instantiate a Core API Client with CoreApiClient.initialize({ ... }) and various configuration options. The options you provide will depend on how your node is configured, and how you're connecting to it.

The client checks that it can connect to the Core API at initialize time.

If running against RCnet-V2, with a full node running on localhost (such as running testnet-node/run.sh in local development), with its Core API bound to 3333, you can use:

import { CoreApiClient } from "@radixdlt/babylon-core-api-sdk";

const coreApiClient = await CoreApiClient.initialize({
    basePath: "http://127.0.0.1:3333/core", // Note: 127.0.0.1 works better than localhost on Node.JS
    logicalNetworkName: "zabanet",
    // Further options - explained below...
});

If this doesn't work, please see further options below.

Providing the Fetch API

Behind the scenes, this library uses the fetch API:

• In Node.JS v18+ or in a browser, fetch is provided natively, so you don't need add a fetch parameter.
• If earlier Node.JS versions, a stand-in must be used (see eg node-fetch). We suggest adding the following dependencies:
  • node-fetch version ^2.6.13 (as 3.x can only be imported as an ESModule).
  • @types/node-fetch version ^2.6.3

import fetch from "node-fetch"
import { CoreApiClient } from "@radixdlt/babylon-core-api-sdk";

const coreApiClient = await CoreApiClient.initialize({
    // ...
    fetch,
});

Connecting to a node set up with the Node CLI / nginx

If you have set up your node using the Radix Node CLI, then the node will likely be configured with its APIs exposed via nginx, and bound to the standard https port.

You will have set up some custom basic authentication for this API, and by default, nginx will use a self-signed certificate.

To work with this set-up you will need to:

• Ensure your basePath is set up to connect to the correct host and port, on which nginx is bound.
• Set the Authorization header on your request, configured with your basic auth credentials for the Core API.
• In the agent / dispatcher configuration, include the self-signed certificate by using the ca parameter, or if you understand the implications and have precautions against MITM, use rejectUnauthorized: false with the https agent.

With node-fetch

An example, with the rejectUnauthorized: false line, assuming you are EG on localhost, or a private network where MITM attacks are mitigated.

import fetch from "node-fetch"
import https from "node:https";
import { CoreApiClient } from "@radixdlt/babylon-core-api-sdk";

const basicAuthUsername = "admin";
const basicAuthPassword = "????"; // From your node set-up - provide this securely to your application

const coreApiClient = await CoreApiClient.initialize({
    basePath: "https://127.0.0.1/core",
    logicalNetworkName: "zabanet",
    advanced: {
        agent: new https.Agent({
            keepAlive: true,
            // NOTE - Only add the below line if you've taken precautions to avoid MITM attacks between you and the node
            rejectUnauthorized: false,
        }),
        headers: {
            "Authorization": `Basic ${Buffer.from(`${basicAuthUsername}:${basicAuthPassword}`).toString("base64")}`
        }
    }
});

With native Node.JS fetch

If wanting to customise the certificate settings on the request, you will need install undici (as per this comment):

The below includes the rejectUnauthorized: false line, assuming you are EG on localhost, or a private network where MITM attacks are mitigated.

import { CoreApiClient } from "@radixdlt/babylon-core-api-sdk";
import { Agent } from 'undici';

const basicAuthUsername = "admin";
const basicAuthPassword = "????"; // From your node set-up - provide this securely to your application

const coreApiClient = await CoreApiClient.initialize({
    basePath: "https://127.0.0.1/core",
    logicalNetworkName: "zabanet",
    advanced: {
        dispatcher: new Agent({
            connect: {
                // NOTE - Only add the below line if you've taken precautions to avoid MITM attacks between you and the node
                rejectUnauthorized: false,
            },
        }),
        headers: {
            "Authorization": `Basic ${Buffer.from(`${basicAuthUsername}:${basicAuthPassword}`).toString("base64")}`
        }
    }
});

LTS - High Level API

The Core API has a "Long Term Support" sub-API. This is documented in the API specification.

The client has a high-level LTS API, which includes the following features:

• A simpler API, for example, the network name is included on the request for you
• getConstructionMetadata includes a node synced-up check
• submitTransaction handles different submit transaction errors

LTS Transaction Construction and Submission

Construction and submission looks something like this:

import { LtsCommittedTransactionStatus } from "@radixdlt/babylon-core-api-sdk";

const constructionMetadata = await coreApiClient.lts.getConstructionMetadata();

const currentEpoch = constructionMetadata.current_epoch;
const { notarizedTransactionHex, intentHash } = buildTransaction(currentEpoch, ...);

/**
 * By testing `submitResponse.result`, you can distinguish different possible results
 * Some of these possible results will need to be handled.
 * See the integrators guide for more information.
 */
const submitResponse = await coreApiClient.lts.submitTransaction({
    notarized_transaction_hex: notarizedTransactionHex
});
console.log(submitResponse);

/**
 * By testing `statusResponse.intent_status`, you can see different intent statuses.
 *
 * You may wish to poll this endpoint until it is one of:
 * - LtsTransactionIntentStatus.CommittedSuccess
 * - LtsTransactionIntentStatus.CommittedFailure
 * - LtsTransactionIntentStatus.PermanentRejection
 * 
 * See the integrators guide for more information.
 */
const statusResponse = await coreApiClient.lts.getTransactionStatus({
    intent_hash: intentHash
});
console.log(statusResponse);

if (statusResponse.committed_state_version) {
    const committedOutcomeResponse = await coreApiClient.lts.getTransactionOutcome({
        state_version: statusResponse.committed_state_version
    });

    if (committedOutcomeResponse?.status == LtsCommittedTransactionStatus.Success) {
        console.log("Committed success");
    } else if (committedOutcomeResponse?.status == LtsCommittedTransactionStatus.Failure) {
        console.log("Committed failure");
    } 
}

LTS - Account balances

Account balance queries look like this:

const accountAddress = "..";
const resourceAddress = "..";

const balanceResponse = await coreApiClient.lts.getAccountFungibleResourceBalance({
    account_address: accountAddress,
    resource_address: resourceAddress,
});

const allBalancesResponse = await coreApiClient.lts.getAccountAllFungibleResourceBalances({
    account_address: accountAddress,
}); 

LTS - Transaction history

You can get transaction outcomes in ledger order with these endpoints.

You can sum the fungible_entity_balance_changes from the transaction outcomes to track balance changes in components including accounts.

const accountAddress = "..";

const transactionsBatch = await coreApiClient.lts.getTransactionOutcomes({
    from_state_version: 1,
    limit: 100,
});

const accountTransactionsBatch = await coreApiClient.lts.getAccountTransactionOutcomes({
    account_address: accountAddress,
    from_state_version: 1,
    limit: 100,
});