Get Active Era

Returns the current active era to call payoutStakers with, collecting any rewards due (pays out the next 250 unpaid stakers for the staking era - callable until that era is emptied).

await API.query.getActiveEra()

important

You can get the AVN_GATEWAY_URL here.

Example

const AVN_API = require("avn-api");
const AVN_GATEWAY_URL = "<node_url>";
const options = {
    suri: "<account_suri>",
};
const API = new AVN_API(AVN_GATEWAY_URL, options);

async function main() {
    await API.init();

    let result = await API.query.getActiveEra();
    console.log(result);
}

(async () => {
    await main();
})();

Example Result

1392

JSON-RPC

REQUEST
POST <https://AVN_GATEWAY_URL/query>

HEADERS
Content-Type: application/json Authorization': bearer <awtToken>

JSON-RPC Example

curl https://AVN_GATEWAY_URL/query \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: bearer <awtToken>" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"getActiveEra", "params":{}, "id":1}'

note

result - string integer value of the current staking era

JSON-RPC Output

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "1392"
}