SMIP: Spacemesh Public API endpoints (WIP)

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Moving from product repo to hear. Pending decisions on API 0.2.

Motivation

We'd like to enable clients to get mesh and account statues and submit transactions w/o running a full node on a PC and being synced with the mesh. This is required to implement the important wallet-only-mode app feature for 0.2. This is also important to enable development of mobile wallets for Spacemesh coins.

Requirements

• Must be highly available and operationally supported as part of the sm production env.
• Should be available via https.
• Should not expose a managed bootstrap node to new attacks by introducing a new attack surface.
• Must not expose any node's management feature such as POST setup and coinbase account.

Details

Prior to API refactoring into facades / modules we want to expose ONLY the following v1 api REST end points. They are categorized into categories just for conceptual purposes.

All the methods are read-only and don't affect the node's state with the exception of submit a tansaction which submits a new transaction to the pool.

Whiteboard: https://github.com/spacemeshos/product/blob/master/api_v2_modeling.md Master API design: https://github.com/spacemeshos/product/blob/master/api.md

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Moved from: https://github.com/spacemeshos/product/issues/75