Manually Construct Any Transaction

General Procedure

The general principle for generating, singing and broadcasting an arbitrary transactions works as follows:

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1. Create an instance of the transaction builder

The corresponding API calls in the Transaction Builder are:

>>> begin_builder_transaction
>>> add_operation_to_builder_transaction $HANDLE [opId, {operation}]
>>> set_fees_on_builder_transaction $HANDLE BTS
>>> sign_builder_transaction $HANDLE true

The begin_builder_transaction call returns a number we call $HANDLE It allows to construct several transactions in parallel and identify them individually!

2. Add arbitrary operation types

The opId and the JSON structure of the operation can be obtained with:

get_prototype_operation <operation-type>

The operation types available are:

• Operations List and the elements
• Learning BitShares-Core Available Operations! You can find Operations and OperationIDs pair here.

3. Add the required amount of fees

In practice, each operation has to pay a fee, and hence, each operation has to carry a fee member. When crafting a transaction, you now have the choice between either defining each fee for your operations individually, or you use set_fees_on_builder_transaction that sets the fee for each operation automatically to the chosen asset.

3b. (Example) Transfer operation

A simple transfer takes the following form:

get_prototype_operation transfer_operation
[
  0,{
    "fee": {
      "amount": 0,
      "asset_id": "1.3.0"
    },
    "from": "1.2.0",
    "to": "1.2.0",
    "amount": {
      "amount": 0,
      "asset_id": "1.3.0"
    },
    "extensions": []
  }
]

The operation id for the transfer_operation is thus 0 (third line) and the core elements (removing fee) of this operation take the form:

{
  "from": "1.2.0",
  "to": "1.2.0",
  "amount": {
    "amount": 0,
    "asset_id": "1.3.0"
  }
}

We add an operation to a transaction as follows (line breaks inserted for readability):

>>> begin_builder_transaction
0
>>> add_operation_to_builder_transaction
     0
    [0,{
           "from": "1.2.0",
           "to": "1.2.0",
           "amount": {
             "amount": 0,
             "asset_id": "1.3.0"
           }
       }]

The corresponding id can be obtained with get_account, and get_asset.

4. Sign and broadcast your transaction and fees

We add a fee payed in BTS, sign and broadcast the transaction (if valid):

>>> set_fees_on_builder_transaction 0 BTS
>>> sign_builder_transaction 0 true

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