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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By : Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By: Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger are open source technologies that power the development of decentralized applications. This Learning Path is your helpful reference for exploring and building blockchain networks using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Hyperledger Composer. Blockchain Development with Hyperledger will start off by giving you an overview of blockchain and demonstrating how you can set up an Ethereum development environment for developing, packaging, building, and testing campaign-decentralized applications. You'll then explore the de facto language Solidity, which you can use to develop decentralized applications in Ethereum. Following this, you'll be able to configure Hyperledger Fabric and use it to build private blockchain networks and applications that connect to them. Toward the later chapters, you'll learn how to design and launch a network, and even implement smart contracts in chain code. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications by addressing the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Blockchain Quick Start Guide by Xun (Brian) Wu and Weimin Sun • Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger by Nitin Gaur et al.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Common smart contract patterns


In this section, we will discuss some common design and programming patterns for the smart contract programming language.

Access restriction

Access restriction is a solidity security pattern.  It only allows authorized parties to access certain functions. Due to the public nature of the blockchain, all data on the blockchain is visible to anyone. It is critical to declare your contract function, state with restricted access control, and provide security against unauthorized access to smart contract functionality.

pragma solidity ^0.4.24;
contract Ownable {
 address owner;
 uint public initTime = now;
 constructor() public {
 owner = msg.sender;
 }
 //check if the caller is the owner of the contract
 modifier onlyOwner {
 require(msg.sender == owner,"Only Owner Allowed." );
 _;
 }
 //change the owner of the contract
 //@param _newOwner the address of the new owner of the contract.
 function changeOwner(address _newOwner) public onlyOwner {
 owner = _newOwner;
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