EVM-Lite CLI

A Command Line Interface to interact with an EVM-Lite node.

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Commands
   • Flags
3. Data Directory

Installation

You can easily install evmlc with NPM

$ npm install -g bvm-cli

or with yarn

$ yarn global add bvm-cli

Commands

Flags

The global flag -d, --datadir specifies the directory where keystore and evmlc.toml are stored unless overwritten by specific flags.

$ evmlc --datadir <path> <command>

Commands also have two logging level flags --silent and --debug which will silence and show debug logs respectively.

By default all commands will output formatted output. If you wish to script or require a JSON output use the -j, --json flag.

For example to show JSON output for the info command:

$ evmlc info --json

evmlc http GET camille.monet.network:8080/info

{"consensus_events":"4121","consensus_transactions":"99","events_per_second":"0.00","id":"3048798009","last_block_index":"112","last_consensus_round":"445","last_peer_change":"258","min_gas_price":"10","moniker":"mosaic","num_peers":"4","round_events":"0","rounds_per_second":"0.00","state":"Babbling","sync_rate":"1.00","time":"1574268876085188708","transaction_pool":"0","type":"babble","undetermined_events":"19"}

Data Directory

The first time evmlc runs, and if no options are specified, it creates a special directory in a default location, where it stores any relevant information.

• Linux: ~/.evmlite
• Mac OS: ~/Library/EVMLITE
• Windows: ~/AppData/Roaming/EVMLITE

In particular, this directory contains the following items:

• evmlc.toml: where global options are specified
• keystore: where all encrypted account keys are stored

This directory is shared by EVM-Lite.

evmlc.toml

Example evmlc.toml:

[connection]

# The IP address of the EVM-Lite node
host = "localhost"

# The listening port of the EVM-Lite service
port = 8080

[defaults]

# Moniker of the account to be used as default
# usually the filename of the keyfile
from = "moniker"

# Gas will only default to this value for contract
# calls as transfer will take a maximum of 21000 gas
gas = 1000000

# DEPRECATED
# Commands requiring gas price will pull the
# minimum gas price of the requested node and
# use with the transaction.
gasPrice = 0

Note: from refers to the moniker of the account not the address.

To change default configuration values run evmlc config set -i or evmlc c s -i. You will be taken to an interactive prompt to change connection and default values.

$ evmlc config set -i

? Host: localhost
? Port: 8080
? From: moniker
? Gas: 1000000
? Gas Price: 0