Basic Ethereum Oracle example, including Oraclize, Truffle and Vue

What are Oracles

An Oracle is, simply put, a smart contract that is able to interact with the outside world, in the world of Ethereum that is known as off-chain.

Example

I didn't find a lot of examples on how to combine a front-end to a Ethereum oracle. So as a little side project I build a little starter pack. Hoping that it can serve as a starting point or example for other developers who want to play around with oracles!

It gets the current ETH/USD price from the Coinbase API and pulls it into the smart contract

The example includes the following technologies

• Vue-cli 3.2.1
• TypeScript (class style components)
• Smart contract example
• Oraclize
• Truffle

marlowl / ethereum-oraclize-starter

Basic Ethereum Oracle example, using Oraclize, Truffle, Vue and Web3

Ethereum Oraclize starter

Front-end is generated with vue-cli version 3.2.1

Basic Ethereum Oracle example including Oraclize, Truffle, Coinbase API, Web3

Demo

Get the current ETH/USD price from the Coinbase API through an Ethereum Oracle

Project setup

Install dependencies

npm install

Install Truffle (Works on the truffle version below, newer versions might get a compile error later on)

npm install -g truffle@4.1.15

Run Truffle develop (spawns a development blockchain)

truffle develop

Open a seperate terminal and run the ethereum-bridge (see package.json for what it does)

npm run bridge

Wait till it is fully loaded and you see the following message

Please add this line to your contract constructor
OAR = OraclizeAddrResolverI(address)

Compile the contract inside the Truffle develop console

truffle(develop)> compile

Migrate the contract also inside the Truffle develop console

truffle(develop)> migrate --development --reset

Get the contract address from the ethereum-bridge terminal

Output should be something like this

    "contract_myid": "0x9fa87c542cab950bd129f3d2d13cba6199741bd1984351c04e83c54620dfee1b"
    "contract_address":

…

View on GitHub

Enjoy!