3.3.2. Sending transactions with Python library

3.3.2.1. Prerequisites

Note

The library only works in Python 3 environment (Python 2 is not supported yet).

To use Iroha Python library, you need to get it from the repository or via pip3:

pip3 install iroha

Now, as we have the library, we can start sending the actual transactions.

3.3.2.2. Running example transactions

If you only want to try what Iroha transactions would look like, you can simply go to the examples from the repository here. Let’s check out the tx-example.py file.

Here are Iroha dependencies. Python library generally consists of 3 parts: Iroha, IrohaCrypto and IrohaGrpc which we need to import:

from iroha import Iroha, IrohaGrpc
from iroha import IrohaCrypto

The line

from iroha.primitive_pb2 import can_set_my_account_detail

is actually about the permissions you might be using for the transaction. You can find a full list here: Permissions.

In the next block we can see the following:

admin_private_key = 'f101537e319568c765b2cc89698325604991dca57b9716b58016b253506cab70'
user_private_key = IrohaCrypto.private_key()
user_public_key = IrohaCrypto.derive_public_key(user_private_key)
iroha = Iroha('admin@test')
net = IrohaGrpc()

Here you can see the example account information. It will be used later with the commands. If you change the commands in the transaction, the set of data in this part might also change depending on what you need.

3.3.2.3. Defining the commands

Let’s look at the first of the defined commands:

def create_domain_and_asset():
    commands = [
        iroha.command('CreateDomain', domain_id='domain', default_role='user'),
        iroha.command('CreateAsset', asset_name='coin',
                      domain_id='domain', precision=2)
    ]
    tx = IrohaCrypto.sign_transaction(
        iroha.transaction(commands), admin_private_key)
    send_transaction_and_print_status(tx)

Here we define a transaction made of 2 commands: CreateDomain and CreateAsset. You can find a full list here: commands. Each of Iroha commands has its own set of parameters. You can check them in command descriptions in iroha-api-reference.

Then we sign the transaction with the parameters defined earlier.

You can define queries the same way.

3.3.2.4. Running the commands

Last lines

create_domain_and_asset()
add_coin_to_admin()
create_account_userone()
...

run the commands defined previously.

Now, if you have irohad running, you can run the example or your own file by simply opening the .py file in another tab.