NAME

Finance::GDAX::API - Build and sign GDAX REST request

SYNOPSIS

  $req = Finance::GDAX::API->new(
                        key        => 'My API Key',
                        secret     => 'My API Secret Key',
                        passphrase => 'My API Passphrase');

  $req->path('accounts');
  $account_list = $req->send;

  # Use the more specific classes, for example Account:

  $account = Finance::GDAX::API::Account->new(
                        key        => 'My API Key',
                        secret     => 'My API Secret Key',
                        passphrase => 'My API Passphrase');
  $account_list = $account->get_all;
  $account_info = $account->get('89we-wefjbwe-wefwe-woowi');

  # If you use Environment variables to store your secrects, you can
  # omit them in the constructors (see the Attributes below)

  $order = Finance::GDAX::API::Order->new;
  $orders = $order->list(['open','settled'], 'BTC-USD');

DESCRIPTION

Creates a signed GDAX REST request - you need to provide the key, secret and passphrase attributes, or specify that they be provided by the external_secret method.

All Finance::GDAX::API::* modules extend this class to implement their particular portion of the GDAX API.

This is a low-level implementation of the GDAX API and complete, except for supporting result paging.

Return values are generally returned as references to arrays, hashes, arrays of hashes, hashes of arrays and all are documented within each method.

All REST requests use https requests.

ATTRIBUTES

debug (default: 1)

Use debug mode (sandbox) or prouduction. By default requests are done with debug mode enabled which means connections will be made to the sandbox API. To do live data, you must set debug to 0.

key

The GDAX API key. This defaults to the environment variable $ENV{GDAX_API_KEY}

secret

The GDAX API secret key. This defaults to the environment variable $ENV{GDAX_API_SECRET}

passphrase

The GDAX API passphrase. This defaults to the environment variable $ENV{GDAX_API_PASSPHRASE}

error

Returns the text of an error message if there were any in the request.

response_code

Returns the numeric HTTP status code of the request.

method (default: POST)

REST method to use when data is submitted. Must be in upper-case.

path

The URI path for the REST method, which must be set or errors will result. Leading '/' is not required.

body

A reference to an array or hash that will be JSONified and represents the data being sent in the REST request body. This is optional.

timestamp (default: current unix epoch)

An integer representing the Unix epoch of the request. This defaults to the current epoch time and will remain so as long as this object exists.

timeout (default: none)

Integer time in seconds to wait for response to request.

METHODS

send

Sends the GDAX API request, returning the JSON response content as a perl data structure. Each Finance::GDAX::API::* class documents this structure (what to expect), as does the GDAX API (which will always be authoritative).

external_secret filename, fork?

If you want to avoid hard-coding secrets into your code, this convenience method may be able to help.

The method looks externally, either to a filename (default) or calls an executable file to provide the secrets via STDIN.

Either way, the source of the secrets should provide key/value pairs delimited by colons, one per line:

key:ThiSisMybiglongkey secret:HerEISmYSupeRSecret passphrase:andTHisiSMypassPhraSE

There can be comments ("#" beginning a line), and blank lines.

In other words, for exmple, if you cryptographically store your API credentials, you can create a small callable program that will decrypt them and provide them, so that they never live on disk unencrypted, and never show up in process listings:

  my $request = Finance::GDAX::API->new;
  $request->external_secret('/path/to/my_decryptor', 1);

This would assign the key, secret and passphrase attributes for you by forking and running the 'my_decryptor' program. The 1 designates a fork, rather than a file read.

This method will die easily if things aren't right.

save_secrets_to_environment

Another convenience method that can be used to store your secrets into the volatile environment in which your perl is running, so that subsequent GDAX API object instances will not need to have the key, secret and passphrase set.

You may not want to do this! It stores each attribute, "key", "secret" and "passphrase" to the environment variables "GDAX_API_KEY", "GDAX_API_SECRET" and "GDAX_API_PASSPHRASE", respectively.

METHODS you probably don't need to worry about

signature

Returns a string, base64-encoded representing the HMAC digest signature of the request, generated from the secrey key.

body_json

Returns a string, the JSON-encoded representation of the data structure referenced by the "body" attribute. You don't normally need to look at this.

AUTHOR

Mark Rushing <mark@orbislumen.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Home Grown Systems, SPC.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Finance::GDAX::API

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Finance::GDAX::API