Crate drand_client_rs

drand-client-rs

drand_client_rs is a small rust library for retrieving random numbers from the drand network.

Modules

chain_info

http

http

verify

verify

Structs

DrandClient

a struct encapsulating all the necessary state for retrieving and validating drand beacons.

Enums

DrandClientError

TransportError

Traits

Transport

represents a transport on which to connect to the drand network. This crate provides an HTTP transport out of the box, which can be created by calling new_http_transport()

Functions

fetch_chain_info

fetch the chain info for a given URL. The chain info contains the public key (used to verify beacons) and the genesis time (used to calculate the time for given rounds).

new_http_client

create a new instance of the client with an HTTP transport for a given base_url. Supported base_urls include: “https://api.drand.sh”, “https://drand.cloudflare.com” and “https://api.drand.secureweb3.com:6875”. A full list can be found at https://drand.love/developer/