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Conductor JSON-RPC API¶

Querying Running DNA Instances¶

Holochain Conductors expose a method info/instances. This method returns a list of the running DNA instances in the Conductor. For each running instance, it provides the instance “ID”, the name of the DNA, and the agent “id”. The instance IDs will be particularly useful in other circumstances.

The method info/instances doesn’t require any input parameters, so params can be left off the request.

Example¶

example request

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": "0",
    "method": "info/instances"
}

example response

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [{"id":"test-instance","dna":"hc-run-dna","agent":"hc-run-agent"}],
    "id": "0"
}

Calling Zome Functions¶

The following explains the general JSON-RPC pattern for how to call a Zome function.

Unlike info/instances, a Zome function call also expects arguments. We will need to include a JSON-RPC args field in our RPC call.

To call a Zome function, use "call" as the JSON-RPC method, and a params object with four items: 1. instance_id: The instance ID, corresponding to the instance IDs returned by info/instances 2. zome: The name of the Zome 3. function: The name of the function 4. args: The actual parameters of the zome function call

In the last example, the instance ID “test-instance” was returned, which can be used here as the instance ID. Say there was a Zome in a DNA called “blogs”, this is the Zome name. That Zome has a function called “create_blog”, that is the function name.

Any top level keys of the args field should correspond exactly with the name of an argument expected by the Zome method being called.

Example Zome Function Arguments

{ "blog": { "content": "sample content" }}

Example Request¶