Flow Rust SDK

The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) of this project is 1.56.0.

To install Rust, visit the rustup website for information.

Documentation

To see examples with definition of concepts as well as links to the API reference, see docs/README.md.

docs.rs hosts API documentation of the latest published version.

Examples

If you are looking for interactive examples, you can look at flow-examples/. Examples in the directory runs an emulator and makes requests to the emulator.

To run examples in flow-examples/, make sure that you have Flow CLI installed and run cargo run -p flow-examples in the project's root directory. I might ship prebuilt binaries for flow-examples in the future.

Use FLOW_CLI_EXTRA_ARGS to control extra arguments passed to start the emulator. For example: use FLOW_CLI_EXTRA_ARGS="--http-port 8081" if the 8080 port is in use.

If you are looking for examples that just fetches some information from the network without any input, you can look at the examples/ directory.

To run examples in examples/, run cargo run --example file_name_without_rs.

Tests

The SDK has tests within src/tests and Cadence JSON tests are in cadence_json/src/tests.

Examples inside the documentation are also tested.

Cryptography and Hashing algorithms

Currently the library supports signing with secp256k1 and SHA3 hashing. Support for other algorithms may be added in the near future.

secp256k1 signing is provided by the secp256k1 crate, which is an FFI wrapper around libsecp256k1, a C library by Pieter Wuille that is used in many projects.

sha3 hashing is provided by the tiny-keccak crate, which claims to have better performance than another crate by RustCrypto.