Currently conveyer has the get_price API which is returning the conversion rates between STEEM and other currencies/tokens. Client apps/libraries are using this (along with an account and the global dynamic properties) to calculate the balances for an account.
Here is an example of one of these calculations: https://github.com/steemit/condenser/blob/e9ff0f7814bd62874327c5e8dd84ca0239a51df0/src/app/utils/StateFunctions.js#L52
Lots of client apps/libraries will want this account balance to be shown, but implementing and maintaining these calculations in each of the various languages is tedious and error-prone. It would be nice to have one API here that wrapped all this functionality up for clients to use.
Currently conveyer has the
get_priceAPI which is returning the conversion rates between STEEM and other currencies/tokens. Client apps/libraries are using this (along with an account and the global dynamic properties) to calculate the balances for an account.Here is an example of one of these calculations: https://github.com/steemit/condenser/blob/e9ff0f7814bd62874327c5e8dd84ca0239a51df0/src/app/utils/StateFunctions.js#L52
Lots of client apps/libraries will want this account balance to be shown, but implementing and maintaining these calculations in each of the various languages is tedious and error-prone. It would be nice to have one API here that wrapped all this functionality up for clients to use.