XRP API Server

An API server that provides a REST-like interface to the XRP Ledger.

Requirements

Node v10 or higher
yarn
An XRP Ledger account with XRP For development, you can use the XRP Test Net and get some test XRP from the XRP Test Net Faucet.

Initial setup

Clone this repository (or download and extract a copy).
```
 git clone git@github.com:ripple/xrp-server.git
```
Install dependencies using Yarn.
```
 yarn
```
Copy the example configuration file to .secret_config.js.
```
 cp .secret_config-example.js .secret_config.js
```
Generate a random string to use as an API key.
```
 xxd -l 16 -p /dev/urandom
```
If you do not have xxd (it comes with vim), you can choose a random string any way you like.
Edit the configuration file. Instead of vim, you can use another text editor if you prefer.
```
 vim .secret_config.js
```
Replace the following parts of the config file:
- Set SERVER_ADDRESS_HERE to a rippled server's websockets address. In development, you may use the XRP Test Net: wss://s.altnet.rippletest.net:51233. This server does not use real XRP. Create a test net account with the XRP Test Net Faucet.
- Set ACCOUNT_ADDRESS_HERE to your XRP Ledger address.
- Set RANDOM_STRING_HERE with the API key you generated in the previous step.
- Set ACCOUNT_SECRET_HERE to your XRP Ledger account secret key.

Development

To start the server in development mode:

yarn dev

This starts the server with nodemon so that it will be automatically restarted when you save changes to the code.

Production

As this server is still in active development, we do not recommend using it in production at this time.

Considerations:

SSL/TLS must be used for all requests. An SSL/TLS termination proxy is recommended.
Restrictions should be made on signing, such as on the types of transactions, amount/velocity, and whitelisting of destinations. This feature is coming in the future.

Tutorial

In this simple tutorial, we will get our account's XRP balance, send a payment, and check the status of our payment.

Get our account's XRP balance.

In the following example, replace {ACCOUNT_ADDRESS_HERE} with your Address:
```
 curl -X GET \
   http://localhost:3000/v1/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ADDRESS_HERE}/info
```

Send a payment.

In the following example, replace {ACCOUNT_ADDRESS_HERE} with your Address (2 locations), {API_KEY_HERE} with your API key, and {DESTINATION_ADDRESS_HERE} with a destination address. This example sends 20 XRP:

 curl -X POST \
    http://localhost:3000/v1/payments \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer {API_KEY_HERE}' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{
      "payment": {
          "source_address": "{ACCOUNT_ADDRESS_HERE}",
          "source_amount": {
              "value": "20",
              "currency": "XRP"
          },
          "destination_address": "{DESTINATION_ADDRESS_HERE}",
          "destination_amount": {
              "value": "20",
              "currency": "XRP"
          }
      },
      "submit": true
  }'

The response shows the transaction's identifying hash in the hash field of the tx_json object. Take note of this value for the next step.

Check the status of the payment.

In the following example, replace {TRANSACTION_ID} with the transaction's identifying hash from the previous step:
```
 curl -X GET \
   http://localhost:3000/v1/transactions/{TRANSACTION_ID}
```

Docker Container

You can also run the service in a docker container using the Dockerfile in this repo.

Be sure you have done the secret_config step from the Initial Setup section.
Build the container.

docker build . -t <some_tag>
Run the container.

docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v <path_to_secret_config>/.secret_config.js:/xrp-api/.secret_config.js <some_tag>
You should now be able to run the steps in the tutorial.