Web3 Eth Personal

[jdevcs]

Description

Following function are for interacting with wallet located in Eth node, these are not for local wallet. Having following functionality in 4.x:

• newAccount: Creates a new account
• sign : The method used for signing
• ecRecover : Recovers the account that signed the data.
• signTransaction: Signs a transaction. This account needs to be unlocked.
• sendTransaction: This method sends a transaction over the management API.
• unlockAccount: Signs data using a specific account.
• lockAccount: locksthe given account.
• getAccounts: Returns a list of accounts the node controls by using the provider and calling the RPC method personal_listAccounts
• importRawKey: Imports the given private key into the key store, encrypting it with the passphrase.

Acceptance Criteria

This package must also expose following functionality by using existing packages.

• setProvider: Will change the provider for its module.
• providers: Contains the current available providers.
• givenProvider: When using web3.js in an Ethereum compatible browser, it will set with the current native provider by that browser. Will return the given provider by the (browser) environment, otherwise null.
• currentProvider: Will return the current provider, otherwise null.
• BatchRequest: Class to create and execute batch requests.

[cisan86]

web3.personal.unlockAccount the method personal_unlockAccount does not exist/is not available

[jdevcs]

@cisan86 are you using geth?

[jdevcs]

If so :

The personal RPC namespace is now deprecated. In order to interact with personal APIs, you need to specifically allow it via the --rpc.enabledeprecatedpersonal command-line flag. https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.11.0