Traverse events
Query the system events and extract information from them. This example runs until exited via Ctrl-C
// Import the API and selected RxJs operators
const { switchMap } = require('rxjs/operators');
const { ApiRx } = require('@polkadot/api');
async function main () {
// Create our API with a default connection to the local node
ApiRx.create()
.pipe(
switchMap((api) =>
// subscribe to system events via storage
api.query.system.events()
))
// Then we're subscribing to the emitted results
.subscribe((events) => {
console.log(`\nReceived ${events.length} events:`);
// loop through the Vec<EventRecord>
events.forEach((record) => {
// extract the phase, event and the event types
const { event, phase } = record;
const types = event.typeDef;
// show what we are busy with
console.log(`\t${event.section}:${event.method}:: (phase=${phase.toString()})`);
console.log(`\t\t${event.meta.documentation.toString()}`);
// loop through each of the parameters, displaying the type and data
event.data.forEach((data, index) => {
console.log(`\t\t\t${types[index].type}: ${data.toString()}`);
});
});
});
};
main().catch((error) => {
console.error(error);
process.exit(-1);
});