pybitmessage.namecoin module¶

Namecoin queries

exception RPCError(data)[source]¶

Bases: exceptions.Exception

Error thrown when the RPC call returns an error.

error = None¶

class namecoinConnection(options=None)[source]¶

Bases: object

This class handles the Namecoin identity integration.

bufsize = 4096¶

queryid = 1¶

nmctype = None¶

host = None¶

port = None¶

user = None¶

password = None¶

con = None¶

query(identity)¶: Query for the bitmessage address corresponding to the given identity string. If it doesn’t contain a slash, id/ is prepended. We return the result as (Error, Address) pair, where the Error is an error message to display or None in case of success.

test()¶: Test the connection settings. This routine tries to query a “getinfo” command, and builds either an error message or a success message with some info from it.

callRPC(method, params)¶: Helper routine that actually performs an JSON RPC call.

queryHTTP(data)¶: Query the server via HTTP.

queryServer(data)¶: Helper routine sending data to the RPC ” “server and returning the result.

lookupNamecoinFolder()[source]¶: Look up the namecoin data folder.

Todo

Check whether this works on other platforms as well!

ensureNamecoinOptions()[source]¶: Ensure all namecoin options are set, by setting those to default values that aren’t there.