Is there a way to get the *current* price of ETH in solidity function?

Question

Is it possible to get the current price of ETH in USD in a buyTokens function of a deployed solidity smart contract?

For instance, every time GETH starts up is determines the price of ETH during initialization.

Or, is the real way to do it with pre-calculation on a site using web3 to interact with the smart contract once it determines the USD value?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can use any external APIs for this.

Inorder to call external APIs in contract, you have to use oraclize service.

Sample code for your reference:

    pragma solidity ^0.4.16;
    import "./usingOraclize.sol";  //Importing Oraclize
    contract TestOraclizeCall is usingOraclize {
            uint public price;
           event Log(string text);
           //Constructor
           function TestOraclizeCall() {
                 OAR = OraclizeAddrResolverI(0x5049063e4a7704ac155e4f1f42a4954bbef5bbde);
            }
      function __callback(bytes32 _myid, string _result) {
                 require (msg.sender == oraclize_cbAddress());
                 Log(_result);
                  price = parseInt(_result, 2);
        }
        function update() payable {
                oraclize_query("URL","json(https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=ETH&tsyms=USD).USD");
        }

}