akovalenko/lnd.xprv
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Merge pull request #928 from adrienemery/python-docs

Browse Source 
docs: encode macaroon in python grpc example
This commit is contained in:
Olaoluwa Osuntokun 2018-03-29 15:36:30 -07:00 committed by GitHub
commit 117441b7d0
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG Key ID: 4AEE18F83AFDEB23
1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

8
docs/grpc/python.md
View File

@ -138,11 +138,13 @@ This example will send a payment of 100 satoshis every 2 seconds.
To authenticate using macaroons you need to include the macaroon in the metadata of the request.
```python
import codecs
# Lnd admin macaroon is at ~/.lnd/admin.macaroon on Linux and
# ~/Library/Application Support/Lnd/admin.macaroon on Mac
with open('~/.lnd/admin.macaroon', 'rb') as f:
with open(os.path.expanduser('~/.lnd/admin.macaroon'), 'rb') as f:
macaroon_bytes = f.read()
macaroon = codecs.decode(macaroon_bytes, 'hex')
macaroon = codecs.encode(macaroon_bytes, 'hex')
```
The simplest approach to use the macaroon is to include the metadata in each request as shown below.
@ -156,7 +158,7 @@ However, this can get tiresome to do for each request, so to avoid explicitly in
```python
def metadata_callback(context, callback):
# for more info see grpc docs
callback([('macaroon', self.macaroon)], None)
callback([('macaroon', macaroon)], None)
# build ssl credentials using the cert the same as before