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Paul Hauner 6ea3bc5e52 Implement VC API (#1657 )

## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

- Implements a HTTP API for the validator client.
- Creates EIP-2335 keystores with an empty `description` field, instead of a missing `description` field. Adds option to set name.
- Be more graceful with setups without any validators (yet)
    - Remove an error log when there are no validators.
    - Create the `validator` dir if it doesn't exist.
- Allow building a `ValidatorDir` without a withdrawal keystore (required for the API method where we only post a voting keystore).
- Add optional `description` field to `validator_definitions.yml`

## TODO

- [x] Signature header, as per https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/1269#issuecomment-649879855
- [x] Return validator descriptions
- [x] Return deposit data
- [x] Respect the mnemonic offset
- [x] Check that mnemonic can derive returned keys
- [x] Be strict about non-localhost
- [x] Allow graceful start without any validators (+ create validator dir)
- [x] Docs final pass
- [x] Swap to EIP-2335 description field. 
- [x] Fix Zerioze TODO in VC api types.
- [x] Zeroize secp256k1 key

## Endpoints

- [x] `GET /lighthouse/version`
- [x] `GET /lighthouse/health`
- [x] `GET /lighthouse/validators` 
- [x] `POST /lighthouse/validators/hd`
- [x] `POST /lighthouse/validators/keystore`
- [x] `PATCH /lighthouse/validators/:validator_pubkey`
- [ ] ~~`POST /lighthouse/validators/:validator_pubkey/exit/:epoch`~~ Future works


## Additional Info

TBC

2020-10-02 09:42:19 +00:00

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Validator Client API: Authorization Header

Overview

The validator client HTTP server requires that all requests have the following HTTP header:

Name: Authorization
Value: Basic <api-token>

Where <api-token> is a string that can be obtained from the validator client host. Here is an example Authorization header:

Authorization Basic api-token-0x03eace4c98e8f77477bb99efb74f9af10d800bd3318f92c33b719a4644254d4123

Obtaining the API token

The API token can be obtained via two methods:

Method 1: Reading from a file

The API token is stored as a file in the validators directory. For most users this is ~/.lighthouse/{testnet}/validators/api-token.txt. Here's an example using the cat command to print the token to the terminal, but any text editor will suffice:

$ cat api-token.txt
api-token-0x03eace4c98e8f77477bb99efb74f9af10d800bd3318f92c33b719a4644254d4123

Method 2: Reading from logs

When starting the validator client it will output a log message containing an api-token field:

Sep 28 19:17:52.615 INFO HTTP API started                        api_token: api-token-0x03eace4c98e8f77477bb99efb74f9af10d800bd3318f92c33b719a4644254d4123, listen_address: 127.0.0.1:5062

Example

Here is an example curl command using the API token in the Authorization header:

curl localhost:5062/lighthouse/version -H "Authorization: Basic api-token-0x03eace4c98e8f77477bb99efb74f9af10d800bd3318f92c33b719a4644254d4123"

The server should respond with its version:

{"data":{"version":"Lighthouse/v0.2.11-fc0654fbe+/x86_64-linux"}}

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