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block

Description​

Retrieves a full block from the blockchain

Positional Parameters​

  • block TEXT - The number or ID of the block to retrieve

Options​

  • --header-state - Get block header state from fork database instead
  • --info - Get block info from the blockchain by block num only

Example​

Get the full block:​

cleos get block 1

or

cleos get block 0000000130d70e94e0022fd2fa035cabb9e542c34ea27f572ac90b5a7aa3d891

This will output a block object similar to the following

{
  "timestamp": "2018-03-02T12:00:00.000",
  "producer": "",
  "confirmed": 1,
  "previous": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "transaction_mroot": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "action_mroot": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "schedule_version": 0,
  "new_producers": null,
  "header_extensions": [],
  "producer_signature": "SIG_K1_111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111116uk5ne",
  "transactions": [],
  "block_extensions": [],
  "id": "0000000130d70e94e0022fd2fa035cabb9e542c34ea27f572ac90b5a7aa3d891",
  "block_num": 1,
  "ref_block_prefix": 3526296288
}

Get the block info:​

cleos get block --info 1

This will output a block info object similar to the following

{
  "block_num": 1,
  "ref_block_num": 1,
  "id": "0000000130d70e94e0022fd2fa035cabb9e542c34ea27f572ac90b5a7aa3d891",
  "timestamp": "2018-03-02T12:00:00.000",
  "producer": "",
  "confirmed": 1,
  "previous": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "transaction_mroot": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "action_mroot": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "schedule_version": 0,
  "producer_signature": "SIG_K1_111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111116uk5ne",
  "ref_block_prefix": 3526296288
}

Remarks​

The block info object has a fixed size and excludes the following fields: new_producers, header_extensions, transactions, block_extensions.