aleph-client 1.6.1

Python Client library for the Aleph.im network

aleph-client

Python Client for the aleph.im network, next generation network of decentralized big data applications. Development follows the Aleph Whitepaper.

Documentation

Documentation can be found on https://docs.aleph.im/tools/aleph-client/

Requirements

Linux

Some cryptographic functionalities use curve secp256k1 and require installing libsecp256k1.

apt-get install -y python3-pip libsecp256k1-dev squashfs-tools

macOs

brew tap cuber/homebrew-libsecp256k1 brew install libsecp256k1

Windows

We recommend using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

Installation

From PyPI

Using pip and PyPI:

pip install aleph-client

Using a container

Use the Aleph client and it's CLI from within Docker or Podman with:

docker run --rm -ti -v $(pwd)/data:/data ghcr.io/aleph-im/aleph-client/aleph-client:master --help

Warning: This will use an ephemeral key pair that will be discarded when stopping the container

Installation for development

We recommend using hatch for development.

Hatch is a modern, extensible Python project manager. It creates a virtual environment for each project and manages dependencies.

pip install hatch

Running tests

hatch test

or

hatch run testing:cov

Formatting code

hatch run linting:fmt

Checking types

hatch run linting:typing

Publish to PyPI

hatch build hatch upload

If you want NULS2 support you will need to install nuls2-python (currently only available on github):

pip install aleph-sdk-python[nuls2]

To install from source and still be able to modify the source code:

pip install -e .

Updating the User Documentation

The user documentation for Aleph is maintained in the aleph-docs repository. The CLI page is generated using the typer command. When releasing a new version, it's important to update the documentation as part of the release process.

If you have the aleph-docs repository cloned as a sibling folder to your current directory, you can use the following command to generate updated documentation:

./scripts/gendoc.py src/aleph_client/__main__.py docs \
    --name aleph --title 'Aleph CLI Documentation' \
    --output ../aleph-docs/docs/tools/aleph-client/usage.md

Then, open a Pull Request (PR) on the aleph-docs repository with your changes.