Wallet Calls
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Checks whether the wallet has just been created and has not yet had a password set.
Calling set_password will transition the wallet to the locked state.
True if the wallet is new.
Checks whether the wallet is locked (is unable to use its private keys).
This state can be changed by calling or .
True if the wallet is locked
Locks the wallet immediately.
Unlocks the wallet.
The wallet remain unlocked until the lock is called or the program exits.
When used in command line, if typed “unlock” without a password followed, the user will be prompted to input a password without echo.
Sets a new password on the wallet.
The wallet must be either ‘new’ or ‘unlocked’ to execute this command.
When used in command line, if typed “set_password” without a password followed, the user will be prompted to input a password without echo.
password: a new password
Dumps all private keys owned by the wallet.
A _**_map containing the private keys, indexed by their public key
Imports the private key for an existing account.
The private key must match either an owner key or an active key for the named account.
account_name_or_id: the account owning the key
wif_key: the private key in WIF format
Imports accounts from a BitShares 0.x wallet file. Current wallet file must be unlocked to perform the import.
filename: the BitShares 0.x wallet file to import
password: the password to encrypt the BitShares 0.x wallet file
Imports from a BitShares 0.x wallet file, find keys that were bound to a given account name on the BitShares 0.x chain, rebind them to an account name on the 2.0 chain. Current wallet file must be unlocked to perform the import.
filename: the BitShares 0.x wallet file to import
password: the password to encrypt the BitShares 0.x wallet file
src_account_name: name of the account on BitShares 0.x chain
dest_account_name: name of the account on BitShares 2.0 chain, can be same or different to src_account_name
This call will construct transaction(s) that will claim all balances controlled by wif_keys and deposit them into the given account.
account_name_or_id: name or ID of an account that to claim balances to
wif_keys: private WIF keys of balance objects to claim balances from
broadcast: true to broadcast the transaction on the network
This function will suggest a suitably random string that should be easy to write down (and, with effort, memorize).
A suggested brain_key
This method is used to convert a JSON transaction to its transacting ID.
trx: a JSON transaction
Get the WIF private key corresponding to a public key. The private key must already be in the wallet.
pubkey: a public key in Base58 format
Loads a specified Graphene wallet.
The current wallet is closed before the new wallet is loaded.
Important: This does not change the filename that will be used for future wallet writes, so this may cause you to overwrite your original wallet unless you also call set_wallet_filename()
wallet_filename: the filename of the wallet JSON file to load. If wallet_filename is empty, it reloads the existing wallet file.
Transforms a brain key to reduce the chance of errors when re-entering the key from memory.
This takes a user-supplied brain key and normalizes it into the form used for generating private keys. In particular, this upper-cases all ASCII characters and collapses multiple spaces into one.
s: the brain key as supplied by the user
Saves the current wallet to the given filename.
Important: This does not change the wallet filename that will be used for future writes, so think of this function as ‘Save a Copy As…’ instead of ‘Save As…’. Use set_wallet_filename() to make the filename persist.
wallet_filename: the filename of the new wallet JSON file to create or overwrite. If wallet_filename is empty, save to the current filename.
password: the password previously set with
The keys are printed in WIF format. You can import these keys into another wallet using
See also **
Suggests a safe brain key to use for creating your account. requires you to specify a ‘brain key’, a long passphrase that provides enough entropy to generate cryptographic keys.