rpc: add new client, use it everywhere

The new client implementation supports concurrent requests,
subscriptions and replaces the various ad hoc RPC clients
throughout go-ethereum.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 55 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/utils/client.go b/cmd/utils/client.go
deleted file mode 100644
index cc9647580..000000000
--- a/cmd/utils/client.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
-// This file is part of go-ethereum.
-//
-// go-ethereum is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-// (at your option) any later version.
-//
-// go-ethereum is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-// GNU General Public License for more details.
-//
-// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-// along with go-ethereum. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-package utils
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/node"
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc"
-	"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1"
-)
-
-// NewRemoteRPCClient returns a RPC client which connects to a running geth instance.
-// Depending on the given context this can either be a IPC or a HTTP client.
-func NewRemoteRPCClient(ctx *cli.Context) (rpc.Client, error) {
-	if ctx.Args().Present() {
-		endpoint := ctx.Args().First()
-		return NewRemoteRPCClientFromString(endpoint)
-	}
-	// use IPC by default
-	return rpc.NewIPCClient(node.DefaultIPCEndpoint())
-}
-
-// NewRemoteRPCClientFromString returns a RPC client which connects to the given
-// endpoint. It must start with either `ipc:` or `rpc:` (HTTP).
-func NewRemoteRPCClientFromString(endpoint string) (rpc.Client, error) {
-	if strings.HasPrefix(endpoint, "ipc:") {
-		return rpc.NewIPCClient(endpoint[4:])
-	}
-	if strings.HasPrefix(endpoint, "rpc:") {
-		return rpc.NewHTTPClient(endpoint[4:])
-	}
-	if strings.HasPrefix(endpoint, "http://") {
-		return rpc.NewHTTPClient(endpoint)
-	}
-	if strings.HasPrefix(endpoint, "ws:") {
-		return rpc.NewWSClient(endpoint)
-	}
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid endpoint")
-}