[Feature] Add RPC server about neo-python HOT 8 CLOSED

I would be interested in working on this.

What scope do you have in mind? JSON-RPC (& REST)? Which API calls? Perhaps we could use the wiki to draft up a quick API spec.

As web framework it would probably makes sense to just use Twisted, since it is already used as networking lib in neo-python. http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/

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A few notes: I did some research and testing with the Twisted web API. The documentation is not easy to follow, looks outdated in many areas, is not always reproducible, and is in general hard to implement.

Two popular web frameworks for using with Twisted are:

• https://github.com/twisted/klein (ReadTheDocs): popular and semi-active
• https://github.com/iancmcc/txrestapi: inactive since several years

Klein let's users define web routes/APIs like this:

from klein import Klein
app = Klein()

@app.route('/')
def pg_root(request):
    return 'I am the root page!'

@app.route('/about')
def pg_about(request):
    return 'I am a Klein application!'

app.run("localhost", 8080)

From a developer usability point of view, I think Klein would be a good choice for implementing the JSON-RPC and REST API on top of Twisted.

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Klein looks good! I also like this reference from their read me Klein Bottle

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See also #108 for related code.

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Question: What would be a few interesting API calls to start with?

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• Original RPC server implementation: https://github.com/neo-project/neo/blob/master/neo/Network/RPC/RpcServer.cs
• JSON RPC API reference https://github.com/neo-project/neo/wiki/API-Reference

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Work has started: https://github.com/CityOfZion/neo-python/tree/jsonrpc1

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Closing in favor of #189

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