Honeycluster Docs – Get current in-progress ledger index

Ledger Methods

Get current in-progress ledger index

wss://honeycluster.io

rpc method: ledger_current

Returns the sequence number of the current in-progress ledger (the one being built by consensus).

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Response · ledger_current WS Response

{
  "result": {
    "ledger_current_index": 89012346
  },
  "status": "success",
  "type": "response",
  "id": 1
}

Request Message

ledger_current WS Request

application/json

Get current in-progress ledger index

Field	Type	Description
`command` required	string	WebSocket command name
`id`	object	Client-supplied identifier to correlate requests with responses.
`api_version`	object	API version for the response format. Version 2 is the default for rippled 2.0+.

Example

Json

{
  "command": "ledger_current",
  "id": 1
}

Response Message

ledger_current WS Response

application/json

WebSocket response for ledger_current

Field	Type	Description
`result`	object
`status`	enum<string>	Available `successerror`
`type`	string
`id`	stringnumber	Echo of the client-provided correlation ID

Example

Json

{
  "result": {
    "ledger_current_index": 89012346
  },
  "status": "success",
  "type": "response",
  "id": 1
}

Request

Payload · JSON

const ws = new WebSocket('wss://honeycluster.io');

ws.addEventListener('open', () => {
  const request = {
    "command": "ledger_current",
    "id": 1
  };
  ws.send(JSON.stringify(request));
});

ws.addEventListener('message', (event: MessageEvent<string>) => {
  const response: unknown = JSON.parse(event.data);
  console.log(response);
  ws.close();
});

Response · ledger_current WS Response

{
  "result": {
    "ledger_current_index": 89012346
  },
  "status": "success",
  "type": "response",
  "id": 1
}