New Perl RPC Client module (Bitcoin::RPC::Client)

[whinds]

This module is a Perl implementation of the bitcoin-cli program that ships with Bitcoin Core project.
https://metacpan.org/pod/Bitcoin::RPC::Client

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Bitcoin::RPC::Client;
 
$btc = Bitcoin::RPC::Client->new(
   user     => "myuser",
   password => "mypasswd",
   host     => "127.0.0.1"
);

$balance  = $btc->getbalance("yourAccountName");
print $balance;

Currently the suggested/popular Perl module is JSON::RPC::Client:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_%28JSON-RPC%29
It does work, however JSON::RPC::Client is a bit clunky and doesn't catch errors from bitcoind properly. Here's a couple of threads with people having issues:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=208080.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47369.0

Bitcoin::RPC::Client is really just a wrapper for JSON::RPC::Client, but much cleaner and actually handles errors.

[rico666]

Nice. 

In

https://metacpan.org/source/WHINDS/Bitcoin-RPC-Client-0.05/lib/Bitcoin/RPC/Client/API.pm

I'd suggest to work with

Code:

our @methods;

push @methods, qw( ... ); # Group X
push @methods, qw( ... ); # Group Y
...

instead of the qq mania (which itself is not correct, as you do not want any interpolating there). But then again - maybe it's autogenerated?



Rico

[whinds]

instead of the qq mania (which itself is not correct, as you do not want any interpolating there). But then again - maybe it's autogenerated?

It was auto generated, but I've been thinking about dropping that stuff completely. It was there to make up for the lack of parsing error messages from bitcoind early on. It's really not needed anymore.