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Published inNov 2018
Reading LevelIntermediate
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Eric Traub
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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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Building the getAddressData method

We'll build a new method on the blockchain prototype, called getAddressData, and we'll use this method inside of the /address/:address endpoint to fetch the data for a specific address that we are searching for:

  1. Let's build this new method inside of the blockchain.js file. After the getTransaction method, define the getAddressData method as follows:
Blockchain.prototype.getAddressData = function(address) {

});
  1. Now, the first thing that we want to do inside of this method is to get all of the transactions that are associated with the address and put them into a single array. Let's define that array now:
Blockchain.prototype.getAddressData = function(address) {
const addressTransactions = [];
});
  1. Then, we want to cycle through all of the transactions inside of the blockchain. If any of those blocks have the address...
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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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