// 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 . 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") }