3.3.1. CLI guide: sending your first transactions and queries

You can interact with Iroha using various ways. You can use our client libraries to write code in various programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, Javascript, Swift) which communicates with Iroha. Alternatively, you can use iroha-cli – our command-line tool for interacting with Iroha. As a part of this guide, let’s get familiar with iroha-cli

Attention

Despite that iroha-cli is arguably the simplest way to start working with Iroha, iroha-cli covers only some possible commands/queries, so user experience might not be the best. If you want to help us build a better CLI version please let us know!

Open a new terminal (note that Iroha container and irohad should be up and running) and attach to an iroha docker container:

docker exec -it iroha /bin/bash

Now you are in the interactive shell of Iroha’s container again. We need to launch iroha-cli and pass an account name of the desired user. In our example, the account admin is already created in the test domain. Let’s use this account to work with Iroha.

iroha-cli -account_name admin@test

Note

Full account name has a @ symbol between name and domain. Note that the keypair has the same name.

3.3.1.1. Creating the First Transaction

You can see the interface of iroha-cli now. Let’s create a new asset, add some asset to the admin account and transfer it to other account. To achieve this, please choose option 1. New transaction (tx) by writing tx or 1 to a console.

Now you can see a list of available commands. Let’s try creating a new asset. Select 14. Create Asset (crt_ast). Now enter a name for your asset, for example coolcoin. Next, enter a Domain ID. In our example we already have a domain test, so let’s use it. Then we need to enter an asset precision – the amount of numbers in a fractional part. Let’s set precision to 2.

Congratulations, you have created your first command and added it to a transaction! You can either send it to Iroha or add some more commands 1. Add one more command to the transaction (add). Let’s add more commands, so we can do everything in one shot. Type add.

Now try adding some coolcoins to our account. Select 16. Add Asset Quantity (add_ast_qty), enter asset ID – coolcoin#test, integer part and coolcoin#test, integer part and precision. For example, to add 200.50 precision. For example, to add 200.50 coolcoins, we need to enter integer coolcoins, we need to enter integer part as 20050 and precision as part as 20050 and precision as 2, so it becomes 200.50.

Note

Full asset name has a # symbol between name and domain.

Let’s transfer 100.50 coolcoins from admin@test to test@test by adding one more command and choosing 5. Transfer Assets (tran_ast). Enter Source Account and Destination Account, in our case admin@test and test@test, Asset ID (coolcoin#test), integer part and precision (10050 and 2 accordingly).

Now we need to send our transaction to Iroha peer (2. Send to Iroha peer (send)). Enter peer address (in our case localhost) and port (50051). Now your transaction is submitted and you can see your transaction hash. You can use it to check transaction’s status.

Go back to a terminal where irohad is running. You can see logs of your transaction.

Yay! You have submitted your first transaction to Iroha.

3.3.1.2. Creating the First Query

Now let’s check if coolcoins were successfully transferred from admin@test to test@test. Choose 2. New query (qry). 8. Get Account's Assets (get_acc_ast) can help you to check if test@test now has coolcoin. Form a query in a similar way you did with commands you did with commands and 1. Send to Iroha peer (send). Now you can see information about how many coolcoin does test@test have. It will look similar to this:

[2018-03-21 12:33:23.179275525][th:36][info] QueryResponseHandler [Account Assets]
[2018-03-21 12:33:23.179329199][th:36][info] QueryResponseHandler -Account Id:- test@test
[2018-03-21 12:33:23.179338394][th:36][info] QueryResponseHandler -Asset Id- coolcoin#test
[2018-03-21 12:33:23.179387969][th:36][info] QueryResponseHandler -Balance- 100.50

Isn’t that awesome? You have submitted your first query to Iroha and got a response!

Hint

To get information about all available commands and queries please check our API section.

3.3.1.3. Being Badass

Let’s try being badass and cheat Iroha. For example, let’s transfer more coolcoins than admin@test has. Try to transfer 100000.00 coolcoins from admin@test to test@test. Again, proceed to 1. New transaction (tx), 5. Transfer Assets (tran_ast), enter Source Account and Destination Account, in our case admin@test and test@test, Asset ID (coolcoin#test), integer part and precision (10000000 and 2 accordingly). Send a transaction to Iroha peer as you did before. Well, it says

[2018-03-21 12:58:40.791297963][th:520][info] TransactionResponseHandler Transaction successfully sent
Congratulation, your transaction was accepted for processing.
Its hash is fc1c23f2de1b6fccbfe1166805e31697118b57d7bb5b1f583f2d96e78f60c241

Your transaction was accepted for processing. Does it mean that we had successfully cheated Iroha? Let’s try to see transaction’s status. Choose 3. New transaction status request (st) and enter transaction’s hash which you can get in the console after the previous command. Let’s send it to Iroha. It replies with:

Transaction has not passed stateful validation.

Apparently no. Our transaction was not accepted because it did not pass stateful validation and coolcoins were not transferred. You can check the status of admin@test and test@test with queries to be sure (like we did earlier).