php与ethereum rpc server通信
一、Json RPC
Json RPC就是基于json的远程过程调用，这么解释比较抽象。简单来说，就是post一个json格式的数据调用rpc server中的方法. 而这个json格式是固定的, 总的来说有这么几项:
{ "method": "", "params": [], "id": idNumber }
method: 方法名
params: 参数列表
id: 对过程调用的唯一标识号
二、构建一个Json RPC客户端
<?php class jsonRPCClient { /** * Debug state * * @var boolean */ private $debug; /** * The server URL * * @var string */ private $url; /** * The request id * * @var integer */ private $id; /** * If true, notifications are performed instead of requests * * @var boolean */ private $notification = false; /** * Takes the connection parameters * * @param string $url * @param boolean $debug */ public function __construct($url,$debug = false) { // server URL $this->url = $url; // proxy empty($proxy) ? $this->proxy = '' : $this->proxy = $proxy; // debug state empty($debug) ? $this->debug = false : $this->debug = true; // message id $this->id = 1; } /** * Sets the notification state of the object. In this state, notifications are performed, instead of requests. * * @param boolean $notification */ public function setRPCNotification($notification) { empty($notification) ? $this->notification = false : $this->notification = true; } /** * Performs a jsonRCP request and gets the results as an array * * @param string $method * @param array $params * @return array */ public function __call($method,$params) { // check if (!is_scalar($method)) { throw new Exception('Method name has no scalar value'); } // check if (is_array($params)) { // no keys $params = $params[0]; } else { throw new Exception('Params must be given as array'); } // sets notification or request task if ($this->notification) { $currentId = NULL; } else { $currentId = $this->id; } // prepares the request $request = array( 'method' => $method, 'params' => $params, 'id' => $currentId ); $request = json_encode($request); $this->debug && $this->debug.='***** Request *****'."\n".$request."\n".'***** End Of request *****'."\n\n"; // performs the HTTP POST $opts = array ('http' => array ( 'method' => 'POST', 'header' => 'Content-type: application/json', 'content' => $request )); $context = stream_context_create($opts); if ($fp = fopen($this->url, 'r', false, $context)) { $response = ''; while($row = fgets($fp)) { $response.= trim($row)."\n"; } $this->debug && $this->debug.='***** Server response *****'."\n".$response.'***** End of server response *****'."\n"; $response = json_decode($response,true); } else { throw new Exception('Unable to connect to '.$this->url); } // debug output if ($this->debug) { echo nl2br($debug); } // final checks and return if (!$this->notification) { // check if ($response['id'] != $currentId) { throw new Exception('Incorrect response id (request id: '.$currentId.', response id: '.$response['id'].')'); } if (!is_null($response['error'])) { throw new Exception('Request error: '. var_export($response['error'], true)); } return $response['result']; } else { return true; } } } ?>
比较简单的代码，如果比较懒，拿过去用就行了。也可以上packagist.org自己找一个rpc client.
三、调用RPC的两类方法
有两类方法需要调用. 一类是RPC server自带方法，另一类就是合约方法.
RPC server方法调用json格式
{ "method": "eth_accounts", "params": [], "id": 1 }
调用自带方法比较简单，参考上述链接，大部分都有示例.
合约方法调用json格式
调用合约方法必须使用自带方法中的eth_call. 而合约方法名称和合约方法参数列表则使用params进行体现, 比如: 我们要调用合约中的balanceOf方法, 则json数据应该如何构造呢?
首先看看getBalanace的函数实现:
function balanceOf(address _owner) public view returns (uint256 balance)
提炼出函数原型:
balanceOf(address)
在geth控制台下运行命令:
web3.sha3("balanceOf(address)").substring(0, 10)
得到函数hash "0x70a08231"
假设待查询的地址 address _owner = "0x38aabef4cd283ccd5091298dedc88d27c5ec5750", 则去掉前面的"0x", 并在左边补24个零(一般地址长度为42位, 去掉'0x'后为40位)，构成64位十六进制参数.
最终得到的参数为 "0x70a0823100000000000000000000000038aabef4cd283ccd5091298dedc88d27c5ec5750"
假设我们的合约地址为 "0xaeab4084194B2a425096fb583Fbcd67385210ac3".
则得到最终的json数据为: