Hyperledger Besu REST Integration

Description:-

This artifact provides a mechanism to connect client applications to Hyperledger Besu Network using a REST-based API interface.
Additionally, it can also provide event-handling to Kafka/Event-Hub topics.

Prerequisites:-

1. Java-8 and Maven is installed.
2. Besu binaries are installed and path variable is set.

Running Locally:-

1. Download/Clone the repository and build the project using mvn clean install.
2. Give file writing permissions to shell scripts inside the scripts/ folder using chmod +x *filename.sh*. For example, inside the scripts folder, use this command - chmod +x setup.sh to spin up the test network.

Note : Before deploying contract on the network, compile the smart contract outside the code

Steps to compile the smart contract

Pre-requisite : Install Solidity compiler on the machine.

1. Place the solidity contract inside this repository
2. Run below command

solc --bin <filename>.sol --abi --optimize -o contracts`

3. Copy the .abi file from the "contracts" folder into the resources