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Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

By : Nitin Gaur, Luc Desrosiers, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Petr Novotny, Salman A. Baset, Anthony O'Dowd
Book Image

Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

By: Nitin Gaur, Luc Desrosiers, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Petr Novotny, Salman A. Baset, Anthony O'Dowd

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger technologies are hot topics today. Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Composer are open source projects that help organizations create private, permissioned blockchain networks. These find application in finance, banking, supply chain, and IoT among several other sectors. This book will be an easy reference to explore and build blockchain networks using Hyperledger technologies. The book starts by outlining the evolution of blockchain, including an overview of relevant blockchain technologies. You will learn how to configure Hyperledger Fabric and become familiar with its architectural components. Using these components, you will learn to build private blockchain networks, along with the applications that connect to them. Starting from principles first, you’ll learn to design and launch a network, implement smart contracts in chaincode and much more. By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications, handling the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


Design and implementation a well-functioning chaincode is a complex software engineering task which requires both the knowledge of the Fabric architecture, API functions and of GO language as well as the correct implementation of the business requirements.

In this chapter, we have learned step-by-step how to start a blockchain network in dev mode suitable for implementation and testing of the chaincode and how to use CLI to deploy and invoke chaincode. We have then learned how to implement the chaincode of our scenario. We explored the Init and Invoke functions through which Chaincode receives requests from clients, explored access control mechanism and the various APIs available to developer to implement chaincode functionality.

Finally, we learned how to test chaincode and how to integrate logging functionality into the code. To get ready for the next chapter, you should now stop your network using ./trade.sh down -d true.