Major update to cryptonoteRPCwalletGUI

lib/checkbalance.py

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+import requests
+import json
+
+serverURL = 'http://localhost:8082/json_rpc'
+
+
+def checkbalancerpccall():
+    """function to make rpc call to simplewallet to get current balance"""
+    payload = json.dumps({
+    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+    "method": "getbalance",
+    "params": {}
+    })
+    print 'attempting rpc call'
+    try:
+        #Make rpc call
+        headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
+        resp = requests.get(serverURL, headers=headers, data=payload)
+        output = json.loads(resp.text)
+
+        #Parse json data to get balance info
+        rawbalance = str(output[u'result'][u'balance']/1e12)
+        rawunlockedbalance = str(output[u'result'][u'unlocked_balance']/1e12)
+
+        #Format data for kivy
+        balance = '[color=00ff00]'+rawbalance+'[/color]'
+        unlockedbalance = '[color=00ff00]'+rawunlockedbalance+'[/color]'
+        return balance, unlockedbalance
+
+
+    except:
+        #Return out of sync if bitmonerod is not ready
+        return '[color=ff0000]out of sync[/color]', '[color=ff0000]out of sync[/color]'
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    checkbalance()