Migration Guide for ripple-lib 1.x to xrpl.js 2.x

Follow these instructions to migrate JavaScript / TypeScript code using the ripple-lib (1.x) library to use the xrpl.js (2.x) library for the XRP Ledger instead.

Tip: You can still access documentation for the legacy 1.x "RippleAPI" if necessary.

High-Level Differences

Many fields and functions have "new" names in xrpl.js v2.0; or more accurately, xrpl.js now uses the same names as the HTTP / WebSocket APIs. Structures that were unique to ripple-lib such as an orderCancellation object are gone; in their place the library uses the XRP Ledger's native transaction types like "OfferCancel". Many API methods that return these structures in ripple-lib 1.x are gone; with 2.0, you make requests and get responses in the same format as in the WebSocket API.

The catch-all RippleAPI class from ripple-lib 1.x is also gone. With xrpl.js 2.x, there's a Client class to handle network operations, and all other operations are strictly offline. There's a new Wallet class for addresses & keys, and other classes and properties under the top-level xrpl object.

Boilerplate Comparison

ripple-lib 1.10.0:

const ripple = require('ripple-lib');

(async function() {
  const api = new ripple.RippleAPI({
    server: 'wss://xrplcluster.com'
  });

  await api.connect();

  // Your code here

  api.disconnect();
})();

xrpl.js 2.0.0:

const xrpl = require("xrpl");

(async function() {
  const client = new xrpl.Client('wss://xrplcluster.com');

  await client.connect();

  // Your code here

  client.disconnect();
})();

Validated Results

By default, most methods in ripple-lib 1.x only returned results that were validated by the consensus process and therefore final. The xrpl.js equivalents of many methods use the Client.request() method to call the WebSocket API, where the XRP Ledger server's default settings often use the current (pending) ledger to serve data which is not final.

Sometimes you want to use the current open ledger because it has the pending results of many transactions that are likely to succeed, such as when looking up the state of the decentralized exchange. In other cases, you want to use a validated ledger, which only incorporates the results of transactions that are finalized.

When making API requests with xrpl.js 2.0 using Client.request(), you should explicitly specify what ledger to use. For example, to look up trust lines using the latest validated ledger:

ripple-lib 1.x:

const trustlines = await api.getTrustlines("rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn")
console.log(trustlines)

xrpl.js 2.0:

const trustlines = await client.request({
  "command": "account_lines",
  "account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
  "ledger_index": "validated"
})
console.log(trustlines.result)

Transaction Submission

In xrpl.js, there are specific helper functions for signing and submitting transactions and waiting for the XRP Ledger blockchain to confirm those transactions' final outcomes:

• Use submitAndWait() to submit a transaction and wait for its final outcome. If the transaction becomes validated, this resolves to a tx method response; otherwise, it raises an exception. An exception does not guarantee that the transaction was not validated. For example, if the server has a ledger gap, then the transaction could have been validated in that gap.
• Use submit() to submit and return immediately. This resolves to a submit method response, which shows the preliminary (non-final) result. This method only raises an exception if there was a problem sending the transaction to the XRP Ledger server.

For both methods, you can pass a signed transaction to the method directly, or you can sign the transaction right before submitting, by passing prepared transaction instructions and a Wallet instance.

const tx_json = await client.autofill({
  "TransactionType": "AccountSet",
  "Account": wallet.address, // "wallet" is an instance of the Wallet class
  "SetFlag": xrpl.AccountSetAsfFlags.asfRequireDest
})
try {
  const submit_result = await client.submitAndWait(tx_json, wallet)
  // submitAndWait() doesn't return until the transaction has a final result.
  // Raises XrplError if the transaction doesn't get confirmed by the network.
  // Does not handle disaster recovery.
  console.log("Transaction result:", submit_result)
} catch(err) {
  console.log("Error submitting transaction:", err)
}

Alternatively, you can use the sign method of a wallet to sign a transaction and then use submitAndWait(tx_blob) to submit it. This can be useful for building reliable transaction submission that can recover from power outages and other disasters. (The library does not handle disaster recovery on its own.)

Controlling LastLedgerSequence

In ripple-lib 1.x, you could specify a instructions.maxLedgerVersionOffset when preparing a transaction to define the LastLedgerSequence parameter of the prepared transaction as being some number of ledgers after the latest validated one at the time. In 2.0, you can do this by looking up the latest validated ledger index, then specifying the LastLedgerSequence explicitly before auto-filling the transaction.

xrpl.js 2.0:

const vli = await client.getLedgerIndex()

const prepared = await client.autofill({
  "TransactionType": "Payment",
  "Account": sender,
  "Amount": xrpl.xrpToDrops("50.2"),
  "Destination": "rPT1Sjq2YGrBMTttX4GZHjKu9dyfzbpAYe",
  "LastLedgerSequence": vli+75 // gives ~5min, rather than the default ~1min
})

Like the old prepare methods, Client.autofill() provides a reasonable LastLedgerSequence value by default. To prepare a transaction without a LastLedgerSequence field, provide a LastLedgerSequence with the value null:

const prepared = await client.autofill({
  "TransactionType": "Payment",
  "Account": sender,
  "Amount": xrpl.xrpToDrops("50.2"),
  "Destination": "rPT1Sjq2YGrBMTttX4GZHjKu9dyfzbpAYe",
  "LastLedgerSequence": null // Transaction never expires
})

Keys and Wallets

xrpl.js 2.0 introduces a new Wallet class for managing cryptographic keys and signing transactions. This replaces functions that took seed or secret values in ripple-lib 1.x, and handles various address encoding and generation tasks as well.

Generating Keys

ripple-lib 1.x:

const api = new RippleAPI()
const {address, secret} = api.generateAddress({algorithm: "ed25519"})
console.log(address, secret)
// rJvMQ3cwtyrNpVJDTW4pZzLnGeovHcdE6E s████████████████████████████

xrpl.js 2.0:

const wallet = xrpl.Wallet.generate("ed25519")
console.log(wallet)
// Wallet {
//   publicKey: 'ED872A4099B61B0C187C6A27258F49B421AC384FBAD23F31330E666A5F50E0ED7E',
//   privateKey: 'ED224D2BDCF6382030C7612654D2118C5CEE16344C81CB36EC7A01EC7D95C5F737',
//   classicAddress: 'rMV3CPSXAdRpW96bvvnSu4zHTZ6ETBkQkd',
//   seed: 's████████████████████████████'
// }

Deriving from Seed and Signing

ripple-lib 1.x:

const api = new RippleAPI()
const seed = 's████████████████████████████';
const keypair = api.deriveKeypair(seed)
const address = api.deriveAddress(keypair.publicKey)
const tx_json = {
  "Account": address,
  "TransactionType":"Payment",
  "Destination":"rPT1Sjq2YGrBMTttX4GZHjKu9dyfzbpAYe",
  "Amount":"13000000",
  "Flags":2147483648,
  "LastLedgerSequence":7835923,
  "Fee":"13",
  "Sequence":2
}
const signed = api.sign(JSON.stringify(tx_json), seed)

xrpl.js 2.0:

const wallet = xrpl.Wallet.fromSeed('s████████████████████████████')
const tx_json = {
  "Account": wallet.address,
  "TransactionType":"Payment",
  "Destination":"rPT1Sjq2YGrBMTttX4GZHjKu9dyfzbpAYe",
  "Amount":"13000000",
  "Flags":2147483648,
  "LastLedgerSequence":7835923,
  "Fee":"13",
  "Sequence":2
}
const signed = wallet.sign(tx_json)

Events and Subscriptions

In 1.x, you could subscribe to ledger events and API errors using the .on() method of the RippleAPI class; or you could subscribe to specific WebSocket message types using .connection.on(). These have been merged into the Client.on() method . Additionally, the client library no longer automatically subscribes to ledger close events when connecting to an XRP Ledger server. To get ledger close events, you still add a handler, but you must also explicitly subscribe to the ledger stream.

To subscribe to ledger close events, use Client.request(method) to call the subscribe method with "streams": ["ledger"]. To attach event handlers, use Client.on(event_type, callback). You can make these calls in either order.

The RippleAPI-specific ledger event type from 1.x has been removed; instead, use ledgerClosed events. These event messages contain the same data, but the format matches the Ledger Stream messages in the WebSocket API.

Example:

ripple-lib 1.x:

api.on("ledger", (ledger) => {
  console.log(`Ledger #${ledger.ledgerVersion} closed!
    It contains ${ledger.transactionCount} transaction(s) and has
    the ledger_hash ${ledger.ledgerHash}.`
  )
})
// "ledger" events happen automatically while API is connected.

xrpl.js 2.0:

client.on("ledgerClosed", (ledger) => {
  console.log(`Ledger #${ledger.ledger_index} closed!
    It contains ${ledger.txn_count} transaction(s) and has
    the ledger_hash ${ledger.ledger_hash}.`
  )
})
// Must explicitly subscribe to the "ledger" stream to get "ledgerClosed" events
client.request({
  "command": "subscribe",
  "streams": ["ledger"]
})

Reference of Equivalents

In ripple-lib 1.x all methods and properties were on instances of the RippleAPI class. In xrpl.js 2.x, some methods are static methods of the library and some methods belong to specific classes. In the following table, the notation Client.method() means that method() belongs to instances of the Client class.

Note: The following table has 3 columns. You may need to scroll horizontally to see all the information.