Account Reputation

Full, runnable src of Account Reputation can be downloaded as part of: tutorials/python (or download just this tutorial: devportal-master-tutorials-python-20_account_reputation.zip).

Intro

Because blockchains don’t natively store floating point, account reputation is stored on the blockchain as a long integer string which requires special function or formula to convert in more human readable format. We can define a function that will convert this value, but beem already has the ability to interpret reputation automatically.

Also see:

• get_account_reputations

Steps

1. App setup - Library install and import
2. Account list - List of predefined accouns to select from
3. Print output - Print results in output

1. App setup

In this tutorial we will use the following packages: pick - helps us to select filter interactively. beem - hive library, interaction with Blockchain. pprint - print results in better format.

First we import all libraries and initialize Hive class

import pprint
from pick import pick

# initialize Hive class
from beem import Hive
from beem.account import Account

hive = Hive()

2. Account list

Next we will show predefined account list to select and setup pick properly.

title = 'Please choose account: '
options = ["hiveio","ecency","busy.org","demo"]

# get index and selected filter name
option, index = pick(options, title)

# option is printed as reference
pprint.pprint("Selected: " + option)

This will show us list of accounts to select in terminal/command prompt. And after selection we will fetch account details from Blockchain.

user = Account(option, blockchain_instance=hive)

3. Print output

After we have fetched account details from Blockchain, all we have to do is to use the defined function to interpret account’s reputation field into meaningful number.

# print specified account's reputation
pprint.pprint(user.get_reputation())

Above function will internally cover all edge cases, for example, if account is new their raw reputation is 0 hence, default starting reputation will be 25. If reputation negative that’s also considered.

For reference, the following function will take a raw blockchain reputation value and convert it to the display value:

import math

def rep_log10(rep):
  """Convert raw hived rep into a UI-ready value centered at 25."""
  
  def log10(string):
    leading_digits = int(string[0:4])
    log = math.log10(leading_digits) + 0.00000001
    num = len(string) - 1
    
    return num + (log - int(log))

  rep = str(rep)
  
  if rep == "0":
    return 25

sign = -1 if rep[0] == '-' else 1

if sign < 0:
  rep = rep[1:]

  out = log10(rep)
  out = max(out - 9, 0) * sign  # @ -9, $1 earned is approx magnitude 1
  out = (out * 9) + 25          # 9 points per magnitude. center at 25
  
  return round(out, 2)

You can use this to convert from the raw blockchain value. This is now done internally by libraries like beem.

Final code:

import pprint
from pick import pick

# initialize Hive class
from beem import Hive
from beem.account import Account

hive = Hive()

title = 'Please choose account: '
options = ["hiveio","ecency","busy.org","demo"]

# get index and selected filter name
option, index = pick(options, title)

# option is printed as reference
pprint.pprint("Selected: " + option)

user = Account(option, blockchain_instance=hive)

# print specified account's reputation
pprint.pprint(user.get_reputation())

To Run the tutorial

1. review dev requirements
2. git clone https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/devportal.git
3. cd devportal/tutorials/python/20_account_reputation
4. pip install -r requirements.txt
5. python index.py
6. After a few moments, you should see output in terminal/command prompt screen.