getLatestLedger

For finding out the current latest known ledger of this node. This is a subset of the ledger info from Horizon.

Parameters

• None

Returns

• <object>
  • id: <hash> - hash of the latest ledger as a hex-encoded string
  • protocolVersion: <number> - Stellar Core protocol version associated with the latest ledger
  • sequence: <number> - sequence number of the latest ledger

Examples

Request

Curl

curl -X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getLatestLedger"
}' \
https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org | jq

JavaScript

let requestObject = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getLatestLedger"
}
let res = await fetch('https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify(requestObject),
)
let json = await res.json()
console.log(json)

Python

import json, requests
res = requests.post('https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org', json={
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 8675309,
    "method": "getLatestLedger"
})
print(json.dumps(res.json(), indent=2))

JSON

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getLatestLedger"
}

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "result": {
    "id": "2a00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "protocolVersion": 20,
    "sequence": 666
  }
}