Initialise API

Now that we have the API installed, we can initialise the API. There are two ways to initialise the API:

Offline Mode

Offline mode exposes the AWT token generation and signature proof generation required to configure JSON-RPC calls, along with account generation tools found here. To run the API in offline mode, have this at the top of your code:

const AVN_API = require("avn-api");
const API = new AVN_API();
await api.init();

Online Mode

Passing a gateway URL enables the full, connected api:

const AVN_API = require("avn-api");
const API = new AVN_API("https://gateway.testnet.aventus.network/");
await api.init();

important

You can get the AVN_GATEWAY_URL here.

When creating an instance of the API, an optional options paramater can also be passed in. Options can include:

• suri (optional): The mnemonic or secret seed of the user/sender. If empty the value is read from the AVN_SURI environment variable. More info on SURI here.
• hasPayer (optional): A user specified flag used to determine if there is a configured payer for this user. Defaults to false. More info on payer here.
• payerAddress (optional): The payer address for this user. Defaults to the first payer configured for this user. More info on payer here.
• relayer (optional): The relayer to use to process transactions. Defaults to Aventus. More info on relayers here.

Example

const options = {
	suri: "0x226beb8ff69a053e0f101944d4c917819f7b9e44f1d915f3cf30dc97844262e0",
	hasPayer: false,
	relayer: "5FbUQ2kJWLoqHuSTSNNqBwKwdQnBVe4HF3TeGyu6UoZaryTh",
};
const API = new AVN_API("https://gateway.testnet.aventus.network/", options);

caution

This account (user/sender) being initialised must have a minimum balance of 1 AVT to access the Gateway.

There are some other params that are accepted in options, See here for the new split-fee functionality.