This package is for ethereum dapp development

What does this package:

• Exports a global class named GethConnector available only on server
• Downloads geth binaries
• Can start geth process
• Can connect to an ipc geth process and send json-rpc call

Example

• On server side create a global variable just before Meteor.startup:

• // for global access on server side
  gethObj = false;
  
  const testGeth = function () {
    // start geth process
    let started = gethObj.start();
    // waits for process to start (Future fiber)
    if (started) {
      // test ipc calls https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Go-ethereum-management-API's
      gethObj.ipcCall('personal_listAccounts', [], (err, data)=> {
        console.log('account list ' + data);
      });
    }
  };
  
  Meteor.startup(function () {
    gethObj = GethConnector.getInstance(); // grab singleton instance anywhere
    gethObj.setLogLevel('warn'); // info is default
    testGeth();
  });

• Then you can use anywhere on server side these methods:

  gethObj.start(); // logs in .meteor/local/log/gethProcess.log

  gethObj.stop();//stop geth process

  gethObj.setOptions({executable:'/usr/bin/geth', dataDir:'.ethereum/datadir', privateNet:true, testNet:false,
    extraOptions: ['--shh', '--rpc', '--rpccorsdomain', 'localhost']})

  gethObj.setLogLevel('info');//info is default; 'trace', 'fine', 'debug', 'info', 'warn', 'error'

  gethObj.ipcCall(name, params, callback));//send json-rpc request, you can find all available methods here https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC#json-rpc-methods 

• Test this package:

  VELOCITY_TEST_PACKAGES=1 meteor test-packages --driver-package velocity:console-reporter akasha:meteor-geth