HTTP REST API?

[adamkrellenstein]

With 0.10.0, Bitcoin Core will start providing an unauthenticated HTTP REST API for public blockchain data (which is all btcd handles). See bitcoin/bitcoin#2844. Is it planned to add such a capability to btcd?

[davecgh]

We haven't really discussed it yet, but, unless it's horrible like the existing RPC interface, we will likely adopt it as well. We do not want a repeat of the mess that is the current Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC API.

[wallclockbuilder]

I will love to work on this task. Hope no one else is working on it.

[davecgh]

Awesome! As discussed in IRC, I'll post some more details over the coming days, but the general plan here is to do this in the following stages:

• Create an overall design for the API. This should focus on things such as deciding on the URL naming scheme, versioning semantics, which formats should be made available (I'm thinking binary, hex, and JSON), and which port(s) to use
• Implement the infrastructure for the API.
• Implement each new command as an individual pull request. This will facilitate easier reviews and deployment of each command as it is finished.

[wallclockbuilder]

Sounds good. Looking forward to the details.

[0xmichalis]

This would be nice.

[Zatvobor]

any updates? @wallclockbuilder, are you still working on that?