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Implement comprehensive smart contract API namespace and enhance transaction composition

New Features Added

1. Smart Contract Namespace (sc)

  • CBC20 Token Functions: sc.symbol(), sc.name(), sc.balanceOf(), sc.decimals(), sc.totalSupply()
  • CIP-150 Key-Value Storage: sc.getKV(), sc.listKV() with sealed/unsealed data support
  • CIP-721 NFT Support: sc.tokenURI() for token metadata
  • CIP-104 Price Feeds: sc.getPrice() for latest/aggregated price data
  • CIP-151 Token Lifecycle: sc.expired() for expiration status
  • CorePass KYC Integration: sc.getKYC() for verification status
  • Contract Analysis: sc.length() for code size retrieval

2. Enhanced Transaction Composition

  • xcb.composeTransaction(): Automatic nonce, energy, and energy price estimation
  • Conditional signing: Returns transaction data or submits signed transaction based on sign parameter
  • Smart contract support: Handles data parameter for contract interactions

3. WebSocket Subscription Support

  • Full WSS implementation for all sc namespace functions
  • Real-time updates with configurable polling intervals
  • Change detection to avoid unnecessary notifications

4. Synchronization Enhancements

  • xcb.synced: New function returning blocks remaining to sync (or 0 if synced)
  • WSS subscription for real-time sync status updates

Technical Improvements

API Infrastructure

  • New namespace registration in xcb/backend.go and les/api_backend.go
  • Client-side APIs in scclient/scclient.go and xcbclient/xcbclient.go
  • Comprehensive test coverage for all new functions
  • Mock backend support for testing

CLI Configuration

  • Default API exposure: Added sc to --rpcapi, --wsapi, and --ipcapi flags
  • Consistent API access across RPC, WebSocket, and IPC interfaces

Documentation & Testing

  • Postman v2.1 collection with all new functions documented
  • Grammar fixes in README.md and SECURITY.md
  • Comprehensive test suites for all new functionality

Standards Compliance

  • CBC20: Core Blockchain token standard (replacing ERC20 references)
  • CIP-150: On-chain key-value metadata storage
  • CIP-721: Non-fungible token standard
  • CIP-104: Decentralized price feed oracle
  • CIP-151: Token lifecycle metadata
  • CorePass KYC: Custom verification contract integration

Files Modified/Added

  • internal/scapi/api.go - New smart contract API server
  • scclient/scclient.go - Smart contract client API
  • internal/xcbapi/api.go - Enhanced transaction composition
  • xcbclient/xcbclient.go - Transaction composition client
  • cmd/gocore/flags.go - CLI flag updates
  • README.md & SECURITY.md - Documentation improvements
  • Core Blockchain JSON-RPC.postman_collection.json - Complete API documentation
  • Multiple test files for comprehensive coverage

Benefits

  • Complete smart contract toolkit for Core Blockchain development
  • Real-time data access via WebSocket subscriptions
  • Automated transaction handling with intelligent parameter estimation
  • Standards-compliant implementation following Core Blockchain specifications
  • Developer-friendly API design with comprehensive documentation

All tests pass ✅, builds succeed ✅, and the API is ready for production use.

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LGTM

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Added comments about selectors and tests. Also CI/CD fails, it should be fixed before merge. Also on my opinion it good to have all functionality tested manually in gocore console/API before merging to master and creating a new release, because unit tests cannot cover and check all the stuff

rastislavcore and others added 17 commits August 27, 2025 20:22
Implements the `xcb_synced` API method, providing information about
the node's sync status and a subscription for real-time updates.
This allows clients to monitor the progress of blockchain synchronization.
Introduces a new smart contract API (scapi) to retrieve token symbols,
including a subscription mechanism for real-time updates.

Adds `sc_symbol` RPC method to retrieve token symbols from contracts,
handling different symbol function selectors and string encodings.
Also provides a `symbol` subscription for real-time updates on symbol changes.

Implements dynamic string decoding to handle responses from contract calls.
Adds functionality to retrieve the name of a token contract via the `name()` function.
It attempts multiple function selectors to accommodate variations in contract implementations.
Also includes subscription functionality for real-time name updates.
Includes tests to ensure the dynamic string decoding works correctly with name examples.
Adds support for fetching the symbol, name, and balance of CBC20 tokens.

Updates the smart contract API to use CBC20 function selectors
for symbol and name retrieval, and adds a new BalanceOf method
to retrieve token balances. Also includes unit tests to verify
the correctness of the BalanceOf implementation.
Implements a new API method to retrieve the number of decimal places used by a given CBC20 token contract.

This information is crucial for displaying token amounts correctly and performing accurate calculations.

Includes unit tests to ensure correct function data construction and response decoding.
Implements the `TotalSupply` method in the smart contract API to retrieve the total supply of a given token contract.

Includes corresponding client-side implementation and unit tests for data construction and response decoding.
Adds a new `sc_length` method to the SmartContract API, which allows retrieving the size of a contract's code in bytes.

This method fetches the contract code using `xcb.getCode` and returns the code's byte size, addressing the need to determine the size of deployed contracts. It handles cases where the address is an EOA or the contract has empty code, returning 0 in those scenarios.

Includes a comprehensive test suite to validate the function's logic, particularly focusing on the JavaScript example provided by the user and ensuring accurate parsing.
Implements functionality to retrieve key-value metadata from smart contracts adhering to the CIP-150 standard.

This includes a new `GetKV` method that retrieves metadata, along with supporting functions to check key existence and sealed status. A corresponding data structure to hold the results is also added.

The client is updated to support the new sc_getKV method.

A comprehensive set of tests are added to verify correct behaviour, including mock contract interactions and tests for sealed/unsealed keys.
Adds the `ListKV` method to the Smart Contract API, enabling retrieval of keys and values from contracts implementing the CIP-150 standard.

This method supports fetching all keys with their associated values and sealed status, or filtering for only sealed keys. It includes function selectors and decoding logic for handling dynamic arrays of strings as required by CIP-150.

Also adds tests to verify basic functionality and validate function selectors.
Implements the `TokenURI` method to retrieve the token URI for a given NFT token ID from a CoreNFT contract, adhering to the CIP-721 standard.

This allows applications to fetch metadata associated with specific NFTs.

Includes unit tests to verify the functionality and correctness of the `TokenURI` method, including function selector validation, data construction, and interaction with a mock contract.
Adds subscription methods for various smart contract events,
including balance changes, decimal updates, total supply,
code length, key-value metadata, and token URIs.

These subscriptions allow clients to receive real-time updates
on specific smart contract properties.

The initial implementation provides a basic monitoring loop
and may require further refinement for production use.
Adds a new `xcb_composeTransaction` RPC method, allowing users to compose transactions with automatic nonce, energy, and energy price estimation.

If `sign=true`, the transaction is signed and submitted. Otherwise, it returns the transaction data for external signing.

Also includes the `sc` module to the default HTTP and WS modules.

Adds tests to verify the structure of the new arguments and results structs.
Adds `GetPrice` and `GetPriceSubscription` methods to the Smart Contract API,
enabling retrieval and subscription to price updates from PriceFeed contracts
according to CIP-104.

This allows clients to access real-time price data from on-chain sources.
The `GetPriceSubscription` uses a ticker to periodically check for price
changes and notifies subscribers if the price has changed by more than 1%.
Implements a method to check token expiration status based on the CIP-151 Token Lifecycle Metadata Standard.

This includes fetching tokenExpiration and tradingStop metadata,
comparing the expiration timestamp with the current block timestamp,
and providing real-time updates via a subscription.
Implements KYC verification functionality using CorePass KYC smart contracts.

This includes:
- Adding `GetKYC` and `GetKYCSubscription` methods to check user KYC status
- Defining `KYCResult` struct to represent verification results
- Implementing a subscription mechanism for real-time KYC status updates.

The implementation uses the standard "KYC" field within CorePass contracts
for verification, ensuring compatibility with the Core Blockchain system.
## What ❔
Changed known functions selectors to be hashed by NIST SHA3 which is used in Core Blockchain
## Why ❔
Need to have compatibility with hashing system
Corrects the dynamic string decoding logic to handle both null-terminated and length-prefixed strings correctly.

The previous implementation had issues with strings of bytes32 type,
and also did not correctly return the string data for cases where the data was present with an offset and length.

This change ensures accurate and reliable string retrieval from smart contracts.
@rastislavcore rastislavcore force-pushed the update/api-extensions-01 branch from 102627d to 3c36857 Compare August 27, 2025 18:43
rastislavcore and others added 6 commits August 29, 2025 12:35
Improves the smart contract API by adding security enhancements,
optimizations, and support for retrieving data from smart contracts.

This includes:
- Centralizing view call message creation for consistency.
- Adding response size limits to prevent DoS attacks.
- Validating offset and length values to prevent integer overflows.
- Returning `hexutil.Big` instead of `big.Int` for consistency
  with other core blockchain API functions.
Updates `EstimateEnergy` to use the latest block for estimation.

Enhances `ComposeTransaction` to return a more structured transaction result,
including only meaningful transaction fields. It also now includes the
network ID in the transaction response.
Updates the `Decimals` and `Length` functions to return contract values as `hexutil.Big` instead of `uint8` and `uint64` respectively.

This change ensures consistency in how contract values are handled and provides better compatibility with other parts of the system that expect `hexutil.Big` values.
Updates the smart contract API to use the term "ticker"
instead of "symbol" for retrieving the token ticker symbol.
This change ensures consistency with common terminology
and improves clarity in the API. It also updates related
subscription methods.
@error2215 error2215 merged commit ab89f32 into master Sep 11, 2025
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@error2215 error2215 deleted the update/api-extensions-01 branch September 11, 2025 11:01
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