History plugin question

Question

I just installed Jungle Testnet node with an automatic script. There is a history plugin enabled by default. But now I read it has been deprecated.

Is there any replacement with the same API getActions? We finished a Java implementation of getActions just recently.

The goal is to get the last 20 tx for a particular account and also get tx by tx id.

Answer 1

Hyperion has a v1 history compatible api. Hyperion stores data in elastic search. https://hyperion.docs.eosrio.io/

Answer 2

Since you have an EOS node, you can call cleos to get last actions. For example:

cleos -u https://eos.greymass.com get actions <account> -1 -20 -j

to get last 20 transactions for a given account.

Answer 3

CryptoLions, the bp of EOS, made EOS-mongo-history-API which aims at providing similar APIs to history plugin with mongoDB. You can find the implementation from here.

state-history-plugin is in progress to change the way to find data from blocks, but it might be a little different from the way that history_plugin provided.

Answer 4

I have found something like this: https://github.com/acoutts/EOS-state-history-API

But I am not sure that it truly works because I haven't tested the plugin. :)

Answer 5

History data will become a business for block producers and other third-party history providers. When I asked Dan Larimer about this he answered by asking a question -- does your bank provide free access to all your banking data? In other words, he is hinting that historical data is expensive to maintain and historical data will be a service that you can pay to access. It makes sense to charge for history data if someone is trying to get data that does not belong to their account.

I believe the future will go towards a EOS "client" browser that we run as an individual account holder and store our own transactions data on our own computers and/or decentralize it at our own expense to other providers.

Own and Safeguard Your Blockchain Data at Your Cost -- seems to be the motto.