Helpers¶

lighthive has a target to define helper classes for well known blockchain objects. This is designed in that way to prevent code repeat on client (library user) side.

It’s possible to use lighthive for just a client. However, if you need to get an account’s history, or get followers of account, you may use the helpers module.

Account helper¶

This class defines an Account in the HIVE blockchain.

from lighthive.client import Client
c = Client()
account = c.account('emrebeyler')

When you execute that script in your REPL, lighthive makes a RPC call to get the account data from the blockchain. Once you initialized the Account instance, you have access to these helper methods:

Getting account history¶

Important

With version 0.4.1, we have started using account_history_api.account_history, instead of condenser_api.account_history. When you pass operation name into filter and exclude parameters, you need to add an _operation suffix to the operation name.

Example:

Before: transfer
After: transfer_operation

Beofre:

With this method, you can traverse entire history of a HIVE account.

history(self, account=None, limit=1000, filter=None, exclude=None,

order="desc", only_operation_data=True,

start_at=None, stop_at=None):

Parameters:

account – (string) The username.
limit – (integer) Batch size per call.
filter – (list:string) Operation types to filter
exclude – (list:s tring) Operation types to exclude
order – (string) asc or desc.
only_operation_data – (bool) If false, returns in the raw format. (Includes transaction information.)
start_at – (datetime.datetime) Starts after that time to process ops.
stop_at – (datetime.datetime) Stops at that time while processing ops.

account_history is an important call for the HIVE applications. A few use cases:

Getting incoming delegations
Filtering transfers on spe`cific accounts
Getting author, curation rewards

etc.

Example: Get all incoming HIVE of binance account in the last 7 days

import datetime

from lighthive.client import Client
from lighthive.helpers.amount import Amount

client = Client()
account = client.account('deepcrypto8')

one_week_ago = datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.timedelta(days=7)
total_hive = 0
for op in account.history(
        stop_at=one_week_ago,
        filter=["transfer_operation"]):
    if op["to"] != "deepcrypto8":
        continue
    total_hive += Amount.from_asset(op["amount"]).amount

print("Total HIVE transfers received", total_hive)

Getting account followers¶

from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
account = client.account('deepcrypto8')

print(account.followers())

Output will be a list of usernames. (string)

Getting account followings¶

from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
account = client.account('emrebeyler')

print(account.following())

Output will be a list of usernames. (string)

Getting account ignorers (Muters)¶

from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
account = client.account('emrebeyler')

print(account.ignorers())

Getting account ignorings (Muted list)¶

from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
account = client.account('emrebeyler')

print(account.ignorings())

Getting voting power¶

This helper method determines the account’s voting power. In default, It considers account’s regenerated VP. (Actual VP)

If you want the VP at the time the last vote casted, you can pass consider_regeneration=False.

from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
account = client.account('emrebeyler')

print(account.vp())
print(account.vp(consider_regeneration=False))

Getting resource credits¶

This helper method determines the account’s resource credits in percent. In default, It considers account’s regenerated RC. (Actual RC)

If you want the Rc at the time the last vote casted, you can pass consider_regeneration=False.

from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
account = client.account('emrebeyler')

print(account.rc())
print(account.rc(consider_regeneration=False))

Getting account reputation¶

from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
account = client.account('emrebeyler')

print(account.reputation())

Default precision is 2. You can set it by passing precision=N parameter.

Amount helper¶

A simple class to convert “1234.1234 HIVE” kind of values to Decimal.

from lighthive.helpers.amount import Amount

amount = Amount("42.5466 HIVE")

print(amount.amount)
print(amount.symbol)

EventListener Helper¶

EventListener is a helper class to listen specific operations (events) on the blockchain.

Stream blockchain for the incoming transfers related to a specific account

from lighthive.helpers.event_listener import EventListener
from lighthive.client import Client

client = Client()
events = EventListener(client)

for transfer in events.on('transfer', filter_by={"to": "emrebeyler"}):
    print(transfer)

Stream for incoming vote actions

events = EventListener(client)

for witness_vote in events.on('account_witness_vote', filter_by={"witness": "emrebeyler"}):
    print(witness_vote)

Conditions via callables

Stream for the comments and posts tagged with utopian-io.

from lighthive.client import Client
from lighthive.helpers.event_listener import EventListener

import json

c = Client()
events = EventListener(c)

def filter_tags(comment_body):
    if not comment_body.get("json_metadata"):
        return False

    try:
        tags = json.loads(comment_body["json_metadata"])["tags"]
    except KeyError:
        return False
    return "utopian-io" in tags


for op in events.on("comment", condition=filter_tags):
    print(op)

EventListener class also has

start_block
end_block

params that you can limit the streaming process into specific blocks.