getAccountInfo
How to call the API from an app
Hedera Wallet Snap connects to your currently connected Metamask account by default. To learn how apps can connect to Hedera Wallet Snap using a non-metamask(external) account, refer to this documentation.
Then, depending on whether you're trying to connect to a metamask account or a non-metamask account, you can call the snap API in the following way:
If you don't pass in "mirrorNodeUrl", the snap will query the Hedera Ledger node to retrieve the account information and this may have some costs associated with the query. In addition, the token balance would also not be retrieved as that can only be retrieved from querying a mirror node.
If you want to retrieve the complete account data and want to do it for free, be sure to pass in "mirrorNodeUrl" in your parameter.
If you don't pass in "accountId", it will retrieve account info for the currently connected account.
Note that you can also call this API to retrieve account info for another account Id which you do not own. Think of this as fetching the account info of an arbitrary hedera account Id.
To do that, you would just pass in accountId
like this:
This would retrieve the account info of the account 0.0.1
from the Hedera Mirror Nodes.
What the API does
Retrieves the currently connected account the user has selected on Metamask. If it's the first time, a new snap account is created and the account info is saved in snap state.
Calls the Mirror Node Account Info REST API to get account info from the Hedera Mirror Node if
mirrorNodeUrl
is passed. If not, it calls the Get Account Info API of the Hedera SDKReturns the result.
Some example responses:
For a hedera account id 0.0.4235873
:
Live Demo on CodePen
To ease the integration of Hedera Wallet Snap on an application, we have created a template web application that you can run locally and check out the code in its entirety to learn how you can integrate and interact with various APIs exposed by Hedera Wallet Snap. Check out the full source code at template application github repository.
You can also check out the API reference to learn how each API works.
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