Mesh SDK
Go SDK to create and interact with Mesh API implementations
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Overview
The mesh-sdk-go
provides a collection of packages used for interaction with the Mesh API specification. Much of the code in this repository is generated from the mesh-specifications repository.
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If you have a blockchain based on go-ethereum, we recommend that you use our mesh-geth-sdk SDK.
Getting Started
This Golang project provides a server package that empowers a developer to write a full Mesh Data API server by only implementing an interface. This package automatically validates client requests and calls the functions you implement with pre-parsed requests (instead of in raw JSON).
If you plan to use a language other than Golang, you will need to either codegen a server (using Swagger Codegen or OpenAPI Generator) or write one from scratch. If you choose to write an implementation in another language, we ask that you create a separate repository in an SDK-like format for all the code you generate so that other developers can use it.
Installation Guide
This command installs the Server package.
go get github.com/coinbase/mesh-sdk-go/server
Components
Router
The router is a Mux router that routes traffic to the correct controller.
Controller
Controllers are automatically generated code that specify an interface that a service must implement.
Services
Services are implemented by you to populate responses. These services are invoked by controllers.
Recommended Folder Structure
main.go
/services
block_service.go
network_service.go
...
Quick Examples
Complete SDK Example
This is an example of how to write an implementation using the Server package in mesh-sdk-go.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"github.com/coinbase/mesh-sdk-go/asserter"
"github.com/coinbase/mesh-sdk-go/examples/server/services"
"github.com/coinbase/mesh-sdk-go/server"
"github.com/coinbase/mesh-sdk-go/types"
)
const (
serverPort = 8080
)
// NewBlockchainRouter creates a Mux http.Handler from a collection
// of server controllers.
func NewBlockchainRouter(
network *types.NetworkIdentifier,
asserter *asserter.Asserter,
) http.Handler {
networkAPIService := services.NewNetworkAPIService(network)
networkAPIController := server.NewNetworkAPIController(
networkAPIService,
asserter,
)
blockAPIService := services.NewBlockAPIService(network)
blockAPIController := server.NewBlockAPIController(
blockAPIService,
asserter,
)
return server.NewRouter(networkAPIController, blockAPIController)
}
func main() {
network := &types.NetworkIdentifier{
Blockchain: "Mesh",
Network: "Testnet",
}
// The asserter automatically rejects incorrectly formatted
// requests.
asserter, err := asserter.NewServer(
[]string{"Transfer", "Reward"},
false,
[]*types.NetworkIdentifier{network},
nil,
false,
"",
)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
// Create the main router handler then apply the logger and Cors
// middlewares in sequence.
router := NewBlockchainRouter(network, asserter)
loggedRouter := server.LoggerMiddleware(router)
corsRouter := server.CorsMiddleware(loggedRouter)
log.Printf("Listening on port %d\n", serverPort)
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(fmt.Sprintf(":%d", serverPort), corsRouter))
}
SDK Packages
- Types: Auto-generated Mesh types
- Client: Low-level communication with any Mesh server
- Server: Simplified Mesh API server development
- Asserter: Validation of Mesh types
- Fetcher: Simplified and validated communication with any Mesh server
- Parser: Tool for parsing Mesh blocks
- Syncer: Sync Mesh blocks with customizable handling
- Reconciler: Compare derived balances with node balances
- Keys: Cryptographic operations for Mesh-supported curves
- Constructor: Coordinate the construction and broadcast of transactions
These packages are demoed extensively in examples and are utilized throughout the mesh-cli tool.
Syncer
The core of any integration is syncing blocks reliably. The syncer serially processes blocks from a Data API implementation (automatically handling re-orgs) with user-defined handling logic and pluggable storage. After a block is processed, store it to a DB or send a push notification—the decision is up to you!
Parser
When reading the operations in a block, it's helpful to apply higher-level groupings to related operations, or match operations in a transaction to some set of generic descriptions (i.e., ensure there are two operations of equal but opposite amounts). The parser empowers any integrator to build abstractions on top of the building blocks that the Mesh API exposes.
Development
Helpful commands for development:
Install Dependencies
make deps
Generate Types, Client and Server
make gen
If you want to modify client and server, please modify files under templates/client
and templates/server
then run make gen
Run Tests
make test
Lint the Source Code
This includes the generated code.
make lint
Code Check
make release
Testing
To validate mesh-sdk-go
, install mesh-cli
and run one of the following commands:
mesh-cli check:data --configuration-file mesh-cli-conf/testnet/config.json
- This command validates that the Data API implementation is correct, using the bitcoin testnet
node. It also ensures that the implementation does not miss any balance-changing operations.
mesh-cli check:construction --configuration-file mesh-cli-conf/testnet/config.json
- This command validates the Construction API implementation. It also verifies transaction construction, signing, and submissions to the testnet
network.
mesh-cli check:data --configuration-file mesh-cli-conf/mainnet/config.json
- This command validates that the Data API implementation is correct, using the bitcoin mainnet
node. It also ensures that the implementation does not miss any balance-changing operations.
Read the How to Test your Mesh Implementation documentation for additional details.
Contributing
You may contribute to the mesh-sdk-go
project in various ways:
Read our Contributing documentation for more information.
Documentation
You can find the Mesh API documentation here.
Check out the Getting Started section to start diving into Mesh.
- mesh-specifications — The
mesh-specifications
repository generates the SDK code in the mesh-sdk-go
repository.
- mesh-cli — Use the
mesh-cli
tool to test your Mesh API implementation. The tool also provides the ability to look up block contents and account balances.
- mesh-geth-sdk – The
mesh-geth-sdk
repository provides a collection of packages used for interaction with the Mesh API specification. The goal of this SDK is to help accelerate Mesh API implementation on go-ethereum based chains.
Sample Implementations
To help you with examples, we developed complete Mesh API sample implementations for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Developers of Bitcoin-like or Ethereum-like blockchains may find it easier to fork these implementation samples than to write an implementation from scratch.
You can also find community implementations for a variety of blockchains in the mesh-ecosystem repository.
License
This project is available open source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.
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