JSON-RPC Python Client

Library for interacting with JSON-RPC servers. Implements the JSON-RPC 2.0 spec, as well as first-class support for the subscription streaming endpoints exposed by most blockchain RPC interfaces (e.g. Ethereum, Solana) for JSON-RPC websockets connections.

Features

• Websockets connection wrapper with full support for matching request IDs to responses and subscription updates to subscription IDs
• Classes for (de)serializing JSON-RPC spec compliant message types

Installation

$ pip install bx-jsonrpc-py

Websockets Streaming

Many blockchains use a subscription RPC endpoint with JSON-RPC notifications to provide real-time event streams of updates in the network. They usually look something like this:

// create subscription
>> {"id": 1, "method": "subscribe", "params": ["feedName"]}
<< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":"subscriptionID"}

// incoming notifications
<< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"subscribe","params":{"subscription":"subscriptionID","result":"data"}}}
<< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"subscribe","params":{"subscription":"subscriptionID","result":"data}}}

// cancel subscription
>> {"id": 1, "method": "unsubscribe", "params": ["subscriptionID"]}
<< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":true}

Some examples: go-ethereum, solana

The included jsonrpc.WsRpcConnection class fully implements this feature.

Usage

import jsonrpc

async with jsonrpc.WsRpcConnection("ws://...") as ws:
    print(await ws.call("method", {"param": "value"}))
    
    subscription_id = await ws.subscribe(
        "feedname", {"option": "value"}
    )
    async for notification in ws.notifications_for_id(subscription_id):
        print(notification)

See examples/client.py for a working sample.

Anticipated Future Work

• Reconnection support for websockets to reconnect and resubscribe to former feeds

Comments / Questions

Feel free to open up a Github issue to discuss enhancements or problems.

MIT License

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