Golang Equivalent to list accounts on node - web3.eth.Accounts()

Question

Does anyone know if its possible to get a list of the accounts on a node using golang, after Dialing to the node, basic PoC would be assuming the accounts are already unlocked via the CLI

Basically looking for the same functionality as web3.eth.Accounts() or to list the account addresses on a remote geth node that are already unlocked via the CLI

Answer 1

One way is to interact with the keystore, this is a package i wrote for interacting with keystore function "GetAllKeys" will list all the accounts. package keystore

import (
    "log"

    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/accounts"
    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/accounts/keystore"
    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
)

type KeyStore struct {
    Handle *keystore.KeyStore
}

func SetUpKeyStore(kp string) *KeyStore {
    ks := &KeyStore{}
    ks.Handle = keystore.NewKeyStore(kp, keystore.LightScryptN, keystore.LightScryptP)
    return ks
}

func (ks *KeyStore) CreateNewKeys(password string) accounts.Account {
    account, err := ks.Handle.NewAccount(password)
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }
    return account
}

func (ks *KeyStore) GetKeysByAddress(address string) accounts.Account {

    var account accounts.Account
    var err error
    if ks.Handle.HasAddress(common.HexToAddress(address)) {
        if account, err = ks.Handle.Find(accounts.Account{Address: common.HexToAddress(address)}); err != nil {
            log.Panic(err)
        }
    }
    return account
}

func (ks *KeyStore) GetAllKeys() []accounts.Account {

    return ks.Handle.Accounts() 
}

Answer 2

Ended up writing my own implementation doing a post request to the node, pretty much what web3 does under the hook with RPC/WS endpoints