Parity – Does Parity Include a Console?

cliclientsconsoleparity

I can run geth console to get a command line interface spawned after launching geth. Similar also works for eth.

I tried parity console but that didn't work out.

 ~ $ parity console
Invalid arguments.

Usage:
  parity daemon <pid-file> [options]
  parity account (new | list) [options]
  parity [options]

Is there anything like that available for parity?

we don't yet have a javascript interface, however it should be possible to use eth console or geth console to connect to a running parity client

i haven't tried that yet, though...

The Method not found message is ambiguous / misleading. It basically says, something is wrong. Often the most obvious reasons are:

Mistyped command (happens, unlikely if you use tab-completion).
Unavailable APIs (i.e., you haven't enabled the personal JSONRPC API).
The called method fails for some reason (i.e., there is no account available for unlocking).

Call it like this

curl --data '{"method":"web3_clientVersion","params":[],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-X POST localhost:8545

It need

-H "Content-Type: application/json"