com.beowulfchain.beowulfj.plugins.apis.block

Class BlockApi

java.lang.Object

com.beowulfchain.beowulfj.plugins.apis.block.BlockApi

Deprecated.

@Deprecated
public class BlockApi
extends Object

This class implements the "block_api".

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static GetBlockReturn	getBlock(CommunicationHandler communicationHandler, GetBlockArgs getBlockArgs) Deprecated. Get a full, signed block by providing its blockNumber.
static GetBlockHeaderReturn	getBlockHeader(CommunicationHandler communicationHandler, GetBlockHeaderArgs getBlockHeaderArgs) Deprecated. Like getBlock(CommunicationHandler, GetBlockArgs), but will only return the header of the requested block instead of the full, signed one.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getBlockHeader

public static GetBlockHeaderReturn getBlockHeader(CommunicationHandler communicationHandler,
                                                  GetBlockHeaderArgs getBlockHeaderArgs)
                                           throws BeowulfCommunicationException,
                                                  BeowulfResponseException

Deprecated.

Like getBlock(CommunicationHandler, GetBlockArgs), but will only return the header of the requested block instead of the full, signed one.

Parameters:

communicationHandler - A CommunicationHandler instance that should be used to send the request.

getBlockHeaderArgs - TODO

Returns:

The referenced full, signed block, or null if no matching block was found.

Throws:

BeowulfCommunicationException -

• If the server was not able to answer the request in the given time (see setResponseTimeout).
• If there is a connection problem.

BeowulfResponseException -

• If the BeowulfJ is unable to transform the JSON response into a Java object.
• If the Server returned an error object.

getBlock

public static GetBlockReturn getBlock(CommunicationHandler communicationHandler,
                                      GetBlockArgs getBlockArgs)
                               throws BeowulfCommunicationException,
                                      BeowulfResponseException

Deprecated.

Get a full, signed block by providing its blockNumber. The returned object contains all information related to the block (e.g. processed transactions, the supernode and the creation time).

Parameters:

communicationHandler - A CommunicationHandler instance that should be used to send the request.

getBlockArgs - Height of the block to be returned.

Returns:

The referenced full, signed block, or null if no matching block was found.

Throws:

BeowulfCommunicationException -

• If the server was not able to answer the request in the given time (see setResponseTimeout).
• If there is a connection problem.

BeowulfResponseException -

• If the BeowulfJ is unable to transform the JSON response into a Java object.
• If the Server returned an error object.