PoC 6 v0.7.12 sanity check

o0ragman0o

Ok I think I need a sanity check.
I haven't been able to get dapps running and from other posts around looks to be a problem with the JSON bindings. I can RPC to eth after this command:

eth --json-rpc-port 8080

But trying anything from the javascript console just returns null.

I'm not a developer so aren't sure which way to go now...

mids106

Start eth with the option --json-rpc
The default JSON RPC port is 8080, so you don't need to specify that option.

o0ragman0o

Thx mids106.

So, sanity check... My understanding is that Alethzero is standalone and does not require eth to be running and that AZ is just a GUI version of eth. Is this correct?

eth returns JSON objects as expected when queried in a web browser.

But in Alethzero the js bindings don't seem to be running. So for example when i enter 'eth.key' in AZ's JS console it returns 'null' when it should return the private key.

I've tried ./alethzero --json-rpc but no difference.

StephanTual

o0ragman0o said:

So, sanity check... My understanding is that Alethzero is standalone and does not require eth to be running and that AZ is just a GUI version of eth. Is this correct?

Correct.

o0ragman0o said:

eth returns JSON objects as expected when queried in a web browser.
But in Alethzero the js bindings don't seem to be running. So for example when i enter 'eth.key' in AZ's JS console it returns 'null' when it should return the private key.

There was a long standing bug in the previous commits to the devel branch that affected the JS API. That said eth.key has been deprecated for a while now, by design (no need to expose private stuff to the client). Check out http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1636/tutorial-3-introduction-to-the-javascript-api for the new notation.