A reference implementation of the Five Bells Ledger API

You can see the ledger in action as part of the five-bells-demo!

To run the ledger as a standalone server:

git clone https://github.com/interledger/five-bells-ledger.git
cd five-bells-ledger

npm install

To run it using an in-memory database (the simplest option), run:

LEDGER_DB_SYNC=1 LEDGER_DB_URI=sqlite://:memory: npm start

Note: LEDGER_DB_SYNC runs a SQL script to setup the database schema and should only be set when running for the first time on a particular database.

Or run:

npm start

With the following configuration options set as environment variables:

• LEDGER_DB_URI (required; e.g.: mysql://root:password@localhost/fivebells) URI for connecting to a database. Defaults to sqlite if no database is set.
• LEDGER_DB_SYNC (default: 0) whether or not to run the SQL setup scripts for the database
• LEDGER_PORT (default: 3000) Port that Five Bells Ledger will listen on.
• LEDGER_BIND_IP (default: 0.0.0.0) IP that Five Bells Ledger will bind to.
• LEDGER_HOSTNAME (default: [your hostname]) Publicly visible hostname. This is important for things like generating globally unique IDs. Make sure this is a hostname that all your clients will be able to see. The default should be fine for local testing.
• LEDGER_PUBLIC_PORT (default: $PORT) Publicly visible port. You can set this if your public port differs from the listening port, e.g. because the ledger is running behind a proxy.
• LEDGER_PUBLIC_HTTPS (default: '') Whether or not the publicly visible instance of Five Bells Ledger is using HTTPS.
• LEDGER_ADMIN_USER (default: 'admin') The admin account's username (an admin user can create/modify accounts).
• LEDGER_ADMIN_PASS (default: none) The admin account's password.
• LEDGER_ADMIN_FINGERPRINT (default: none) The admin account's TLS certificate fingerprint if using TLS Client Certificate Auth.
• LEDGER_AUTH_BASIC_ENABLED (default 1) whether or not to allow HTTP basic authentication.
• LEDGER_AUTH_HTTP_SIGNATURE_ENABLED (default 1) whether or not to allow HTTP signature authentication.
• LEDGER_AUTH_CLIENT_CERT_ENABLED (default 0) whether or not to allow TLS Client Certificate authentication (requires HTTPS).
• LEDGER_USE_HTTPS (default 0) whether or not to run the server using HTTPS.
• LEDGER_TLS_KEY (default: none) the path to the server private key file. Required if using HTTPS.
• LEDGER_TLS_CERTIFICATE (default: none) the path to the server certificate file. Required if using HTTPS.
• LEDGER_TLS_CRL (default: none) the path to the server certificate revokation list file. Optional if using HTTPS.
• LEDGER_TLS_CA (default: none) the path to a trusted certificate to be used in addition to using the default list. Optional if using HTTPS.
• LEDGER_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY (default: none) the path to the file containing the private key used to sign ledger notifications.
• LEDGER_SIGNING_PUBLIC_KEY (default: none) the path to the file containing the public key for notification signatures.
• LEDGER_FEATURE_CREDIT_AUTH (default: 0) whether or not to require credits to be authorized.
• LEDGER_CURRENCY_CODE (default: none) ISO 4217 currency code
• LEDGER_CURRENCY_SYMBOL (default: none) currency symbol
• LEDGER_AMOUNT_PRECISION (default: 10) the total precision allowed in amounts
• LEDGER_AMOUNT_SCALE (default: 2) the number of digits allowed in amounts to the right of the decimal place
• LEDGER_LOG_LEVEL (default: info) the allowed levels in order of verbosity are fatal, error, warn, info, debug, and trace

This project can be run in a Docker container.

You need a local database instance listening on port 8080. Here is how to set that up:

docker run --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -p 3306:3306 -d mysql
export LEDGER_DB_URI=mysql://root:password@localhost/fivebells
npm run migrate

Then run the following (with the same environment variables) as described above:

docker run -it --rm --net=host -e LEDGER_PORT=1337 -e LEDGER_DB_URI=$LEDGER_DB_URI interleder/five-bells-ledger

Breaking down that command:

• -it Run Five Bells Ledger in an interactive terminal.
• --rm Delete container when it's done running.
• --net=host Don't isolate container into its own virtual network. This allows Five Bells Ledger to see the database that we set up above.
• -e LEDGER_PORT=1337 Set the ledger's port to 1337. This is just an example for how to set a config option.

To run tests using an in-memory database, run:

npm test

If you wish to specify the database against which the tests are run, use the LEDGER_UNIT_DB_URI environment variable.

LEDGER_DB_SYNC=1 LEDGER_UNIT_DB_URI=postgres://root:password@localhost:5432/ledger_test_db npm test