[Ethereum] Personal API documentation for JSON RPC

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Is there documentation and examples for using the personal api via JSON-RPC?

However it does not say what the method would be in JSON-RPC.

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Ethereum's JSON-RPC spec https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC doesn't contain the personal APIs, because the personal APIs are an extension by Geth.

The JSON-RPC spec represents what a compliant Ethereum client should implement.

@BokkyPooBah has linked to other helpful answers, which mention risks of managing accounts via JSON-RPC, and probably the reason why the spec doesn't advocate implementation of them by all compliant clients (such as cpp-ethereum, pyethapp).

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I found just the tool that I was looking for - ethabi from Parity.

https://github.com/paritytech/ethabi

[Ethereum] In the JSON RPC API documentation, where is the part about sending ERC20 tokens

Sending erc-20 tokens are just calling a transfer function for a token smart code. It's just like calling any othe function of any other smart contract.

To call a function of a contract, you need to use sendTransaction api.

A sample code snippet for calling transfer function of a smart contract is:

var contractAbi = eth.contract(AbiOfContract);
var myContract = contractAbi.at(contractAddress);
// suppose you want to call a function named myFunction of myContract
var getData = myContract.transfer.getData(function parameters);
//finally paas this data parameter to send Transaction
web3.eth.sendTransaction({to:Contractaddress, from:Accountaddress, data: getData});

You can add other parameters like gas, gasPrice in send transaction as well.

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