Questions tagged [xdr]
For questions regarding XDR, External Data Representation, within Stellar.
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Do transactions store information on when they were created?
I'm looking at the XDR definition for transaction and I can't find if there's any info on when a transaction was created.
How do I look up date information for a transaction? I want to get some ...
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How to extract transaction hash out of XDR using Java Script?
iam having an XDR i want to know the transaction hash before i submit that to stellar. i did this in GO by unmarshal the XDR and used the builder to retrieve the hash. Is there nay way that i can do ...
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Getting error “XDR Write Error: undefined is not a Hyper” when trying to create XDR for custom operation
I am trying to run a forked version of the Stellar-Laboratory, I have forked the js-stellar-base and js-stellar-sdk accordingly, basically what I am trying to do is add a new operation on the ...
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Extra 0 byte at end of MemoText String
I extracted a TransactionEnvelope XDR several months ago for testing. It parses fine in the lab and the SDKs.
I've tried parsing it by hand and there's something I don't understand. After the ...
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Why Stellar has totalCoins in every ledger header?
I'm looking at the xdr definition of the LedgerHeader structure and it has the totalCoin fields -- so, why does every ledger header need to have totalCoins recorded in it?
How would that value ever ...
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How to decode stellar XDR
I am working on stellar blockchain and need to decode stellar XDR which is in GO language. I know how to decode using JavaScript but couldn't find a way to do it in GO.
//JS code
const {Transaction} ...
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Legal Question before going live
As I'm getting closer to have a product (timed payments)
which I would like to activate on the Stellar public net, I'm wondering
which legal aspects I have to consider.
The setup for the current ...
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How to Build transaction XDR before sign it
I want to build a transaction and convert that as XDR before sign that transaction. As i found we need to build adn sign the transaction before convert that as XDR specially in java and GO SDK. Is ...
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How do I get the public keys from a transaction javascript
I am developing a site as college project and I cannot seem to understand how to implement StrKey to get the public key from a transaction.
I can decode the xdr but cannot seem to understand how to ...
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Error when including 2 deps that both have stellar-base as a subdependency
When I include both stellar-hd-wallet and stellar-sdk in my project I get errors when requiring them both as stellar-base is included twice which also imports the generated XDR types twice causing the ...
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How does Java parse XDR information?
I need to get the transaction records. This information seems to be in XDR. How can I parse it in Java?
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Why does the first ledgers xdr file contains only 63 ledgers?
One ledger-headers file, named by ledger number as ledger/ww/xx/yy/ledger-wwxxyyzz.xdr.gz. The file contains a sequence of XDR structures of type LedgerHeaderHistoryEntry, one per ledger in the ...
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Where can I find history files structure (transactions and ledger files specifically)?
I'm trying to extract history files from the archive, I understood that transaction file is built of pairs: (32bit length,data), but when I try to extract the data from a single stream I get error:
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How to sign the XDR transaction envelop and and post it through java sdk?
I received the XDR envelope of a transaction. I need to sign it and submit using Java SDK.
I am able to decode the XDR, but need help on how to sign and submit.
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Convert XDR to text
I want to convert the XDR fromat of the transaction to text using JS or java SDK in stellar.Or if there are any methods outside stellar also fine.
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ELI5: The XDR format
Bear with me, I am a relative beginner.
I am implementing a Stellar SDK in R (not a standard SDK obviously) and I am at the stage where I need write functionality to build a transaction. I understand ...
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How to serialize, send over network, deserialize a transaction envelope for multiple signatures?
I'm trying to send over the network a base64 encoded string representing a partly signed envelope. I need to parse the string back to the original javascript object in order to add a new signature to ...
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Are the stellar history (XDR) files available in other regions or on other cloud providers
Most of the documentation or configuration info I have seen reference the history.stellar.org bucket on AWS S3 as the official source of history data. This bucket appears to be in the eu-west-1 (...
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How can I convert the built 'transaction' in XDR format?
Before I submit the transaction to the network I want to convert the 'transaction' in XDR format so that I can save it to database for future reference. I am using Stellar JS library. How to do it?
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How can I decode Ed25519 addresses to the regular 56 letters format?
I've been trying to use the stellar-archivist command 'dumpxdr' to unpack transactions files that are stored in the stellar core history
However the in the results asset codes and addresses appear in ...
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How can I unpack Stellar's XDR history files?
Inside the Stellar core history archive there are these folders:
bucket history ledger results scp transactions
So inside of the transaction folder:
└── transactions
└── 00
└── 72
├...
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Add and remove multiple signers in one transaction
Looking at the XDR spec there is only one signer allowed per transaction.
Is there a reason for it, or there is a way to add multiple signers atomically?
I am working on a new command line interface ...
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Why did the project settle on XDR for external data serialisation?
In recent years new protocols for externalising data have become popular. Schemes like Protocol Buffers & Avro are in common use.
Stellar uses XDR, a scheme from the 1980s which is (as far as I ...
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How to get base64 envelope for transactions or operations?
I am trying to get the resulting base64 output of creating operations and signing transactions but I can't find the method in the transaction object. I know there is transaction.toEnvelope().toXDR() ...
