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API ReferenceAvail node API referenceTransfer funds while ensuring min balance for sender

Transfer funds while ensuring min balance for sender

On-chain name of extrinsic: balances_transferKeepAlive

Parameters

parametertypeoptionaldescription
deststringfalseaccount that will receive funds
valueBNfalseamount that is send. 10^18 is equal to 1 AVL
waitForWaitForfalsewait for block inclusion or finalization
accountKeyringPairfalseaccount that will send and sign the transaction
optionsSignerOptionstrueused to overwrite existing signer options

Return value

On failure, a reason of failure is returned. On Success, TransferEvent event, transaction hash and block hash is returned.

Basic Example

  1. Inside your-file-name.ts, add the following code:
avail-js
import { SDK, WaitFor, Keyring, BN } from "avail-js-sdk" const main = async () => { const providerEndpoint = "wss://turing-rpc.avail.so/ws"; const sdk = await SDK.New(providerEndpoint) const Alice = 'This is a random seed phrase please replace with your own'; const account = new Keyring({ type: "sr25519" }).addFromUri(Alice) const dest = "5HGjWAeFDfFCWPsjFQdVV2Msvz2XtMktvgocEZcCj68kUMaw" // Eve const amount = new BN(10).pow(new BN(18)) // one Avail const result = await sdk.tx.balances.transferKeepAlive(dest, amount, WaitFor.BlockInclusion, account) if (result.isErr) { console.log(result.reason) process.exit(1) } console.log("From=" + result.event.from + ", To=" + result.event.to + ", Amount=" + result.event.amount) console.log("TxHash=" + result.txHash + ", BlockHash=" + result.blockHash) process.exit() } main()
  1. Run the code using:
ts-node your-file-name.ts
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