getLatestLedger

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

Params

(0)

Result

(getLatestLedgerResult)

id

string

Hash identifier of the latest ledger (as a hex-encoded string) known to Soroban RPC at the time it handled the request.

>= 64 characters<= 64 characters

Match pattern:

^[a-f\d]{64}$

protocolVersion

number

Stellar Core protocol version associated with the latest ledger.

sequence

number

The sequence number of the latest ledger known to Soroban RPC at the time it handled the request.

Example

Example request to the getLatestLedger method.

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 requestBody = {
  "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(requestBody),
})
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=4))

JSON

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

Result

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "result": {
    "id": "c73c5eac58a441d4eb733c35253ae85f783e018f7be5ef974258fed067aabb36",
    "protocolVersion": 20,
    "sequence": 2539605
  }
}