SYNOPSIS
This library eases the handling of Ethereum accounts, where accounts can be either external accounts or contracts (see Account Types docs).
Note that the library is not meant to be used to handle your wallet accounts, use e.g. the
web3-eth-personal package from the
web3.js
library for that. This is just a semantic wrapper to ease the use of account data and
provide functionality for reading and writing accounts from and to the Ethereum state trie.
INSTALL
npm install ethereumjs-account
BROWSER
This module work with browserify
.
API
new Account([data])
Creates a new account object
data
- an account can be initialized with either abuffer
containing the RLP serialized account. Or anArray
of buffers relating to each of the account Properties, listed in order below. For example:
var raw = '0x02' //nonce '0x0384' //balance '0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421' //stateRoot '0xc5d2460186f7233c927e7db2dcc703c0e500b653ca82273b7bfad8045d85a470' //codeHash var account = raw
Or lastly an Object
containing the Properties of the account:
var raw = nonce: '' balance: '0x03e7' stateRoot: '0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421' codeHash: '0xc5d2460186f7233c927e7db2dcc703c0e500b653ca82273b7bfad8045d85a470' var account = raw
For Object
and Array
each of the elements can either be a Buffer
, hex String
, Number
, or an object with a toBuffer
method such as Bignum
.
Account
Properties
nonce
- The account's nonce.balance
- The account's balance in wei.stateRoot
- The stateRoot for the storage of the contract.codeHash
- The hash of the code of the contract.
Account
Methods
account.isEmpty()
Returns a Boolean
determining if the account is empty.
account.isContract()
Returns a Boolean
deteremining if the account is a contract.
account.serialize()
Returns the RLP serialization of the account as a Buffer
.
account.toJSON([object])
Returns the account as JSON.
object
- ABoolean
that defaults to false. Ifobject
is true then this will return anObject
, else it will return anArray
.
account.getCode(trie, cb)
Fetches the code from the trie.
trie
- The trie storing the accounts.cb
- The callback.
account.setCode(trie, code, cb)
Stores the code in the trie.
trie
- The trie storing the accounts.code
- ABuffer
.cb
- The callback.
Example for getCode
and setCode
:
// Requires manual merkle-patricia-tree installconst SecureTrie = const Account = default let code = Buffer let raw = nonce: '' balance: '0x03e7' stateRoot: '0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421' codeHash: '0xb30fb32201fe0486606ad451e1a61e2ae1748343cd3d411ed992ffcc0774edd4' let account = rawlet trie = account
account.getStorage(trie, key, cb)
Fetches key
from the account's storage.
account.setStorage(trie, key, val, cb)
Stores a val
at the key
in the contract's storage.
Example for getStorage
and setStorage
:
// Requires manual merkle-patricia-tree installconst SecureTrie = const Account = default let raw = nonce: '' balance: '0x03e7' stateRoot: '0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421' codeHash: '0xb30fb32201fe0486606ad451e1a61e2ae1748343cd3d411ed992ffcc0774edd4' let account = rawlet trie = let key = Bufferlet value = Buffer account