Account Manager Interface
The Account Manager Interface is evaluated through the Command Line Interface of the wallet binary, once per
execution.
It is responsible for the creation and management of the wallet and its accounts.
Commands
./wallet
Starts the wallet without a specified account:
- If the wallet has only one account, it will be used;
- If the wallet has more than one account, a selector will be shown to decide which account to use.
The wallet needs to be initialised (init command) and with at least one account (new command).
Example
./wallet
./wallet [account]
Starts the wallet with a specified account;
The wallet needs to be initialised (init command).
Example
./wallet main
./wallet backup
Creates a stronghold backup file.
Parameters
| Name | Optional | Example |
|---|---|---|
path | ✘ | backup.stronghold |
Example
Create a stronghold backup file.
./wallet backup backup.stronghold
./wallet change-password
Changes the stronghold password.
Example
Change the stronghold password.
./wallet change-password
./wallet help
Displays the account manager interface usage and exits.
Example
./wallet help
./wallet init
Initialises the wallet by creating a stronghold file from a provided or generated mnemonic.
The wallet can only be initialised once.
When just initialised, the wallet has no account yet, use the new command to create one.
Parameters
| Name | Optional | Default | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
mnemonic | ✓ | Randomly generated | "aunt middle impose faith ramp kid olive good practice motor grab ready group episode oven matrix silver rhythm avocado assume humble tiger shiver hurt" (DO NOT USE THIS MNEMONIC) |
node | ✓ | https://api.testnet.shimmer.network | http://localhost:14265 |
coin-type | ✓ | 4219 (=Shimmer) | 4218 (=IOTA) |
Examples
Initialise the wallet with a randomly generated mnemonic and the default node.
./wallet init
Initialise the wallet with a given mnemonic and the default node. DO NOT USE THIS MNEMONIC.
./wallet init --mnemonic "aunt middle impose faith ramp kid olive good practice motor grab ready group episode oven matrix silver rhythm avocado assume humble tiger shiver hurt"
Initialise the wallet with a randomly generated mnemonic and a given node.
./wallet init --node http://localhost:14265
Initialise the wallet with a given coin type. See SLIP-0044 for all registered coin types.
./wallet init --coin-type 4219
./wallet mnemonic
Generates a new random mnemonic.
Example
Generate a new random mnemonic.
./wallet mnemonic
./wallet new
Creates a new account.
The wallet needs to be initialised (init command).
Parameters
| Name | Optional | Default | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
alias | ✓ | Account index | main |
Examples
Create a new account with the account index as alias.
./wallet new
Create a new account with a provided alias.
./wallet new main
./wallet restore
Restores accounts from a stronghold backup file.
Parameters
| Name | Optional | Example |
|---|---|---|
path | ✘ | backup.stronghold |
Example
Restore accounts from a stronghold backup file.
./wallet restore backup.stronghold
./wallet set-node
Sets the node to be used for all requests.
The new node URL is persisted to the storage and all future requests will use it.
Parameters
| Name | Optional | Example |
|---|---|---|
url | ✘ | http://localhost:14265 |
Example
./wallet set-node http://localhost:14265
./wallet sync
Synchronises all accounts.
Example
./wallet sync