Websocket support?

Question

Is there any easy way to acquire streaming data from MultiChain? Something like websockets etc?

I know that the MultiChain explorer taps directly in, but I'm wondering how it does that.

Answer 1

Not yet, but we're working on a simple notification mechanism that triggers a shell script.

Comments

Cool, that works; I can provide some wrappers to funnel it into a websocket. Let me know when you have a first version ready :) Thanks!

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Any news on this?

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It won't be in the next alpha, but is on the roadmap before MultiChain hits beta.

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Just checking in to see if there is any news on this :)

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Yes, the last couple of releases have a -walletnotify runtime parameter which allows an external command to be triggered when a new transaction comes in that is of specific interest to that node. More information here: http://www.multichain.com/qa/3601/anyone-can-issue-dont-seem-to-work?show=3604#a3604