lbcd/jsonfxns.go

// Copyright (c) 2013 Conformal Systems LLC.
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package btcjson

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
)

// MarshallAndSend takes the reply structure, marshalls it to json, and
// sends it back to the io.Writer (most likely an http.ResponseWriter).
// returning a log message and an error if there is one.
func MarshallAndSend(rawReply Reply, w io.Writer) (string, error) {
	finalReply, err := json.Marshal(rawReply)
	if err != nil {
		msg := fmt.Sprintf("[RPCS] Error Marshalling reply: %v", err)
		return msg, err
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\n", finalReply)
	msg := fmt.Sprintf("[RPCS] reply: %v", rawReply)
	return msg, nil
}

// jsonRpcSend connects to the daemon with the specified username, password,
// and ip/port and then send the supplied message.  This uses net/http rather
// than net/rpc/jsonrpc since that one doesn't support http connections and is
// therefore useless.
func jsonRpcSend(user string, password string, server string, message []byte) (*http.Response, error) {
	resp, err := http.Post("http://"+user+":"+password+"@"+server,
		"application/json", bytes.NewBuffer(message))

	return resp, err
}

// GetRaw should be called after JsonRpcSend.  It reads and returns
// the reply (which you can then call readResult() on) and closes the
// connection.
func GetRaw(resp io.ReadCloser) ([]byte, error) {
	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp)
	resp.Close()
	if err != nil {
		err = fmt.Errorf("Error reading json reply: %v", err)
		return body, err
	}
	return body, nil
}