Parity-ethereum: Health check API endpoint

[tomusdrw]

curl -v http://localhost:8080/api/status should return basic health of the node: number of peers, syncing status

[adrianbrink]

Is there a tag for low hanging fruit or easy? This is probably a good intro. Also, in which crate do all the end points live?

[tomusdrw]

Hi @adrianbrink! I've tagged this as Q2-easy.

The right place to put this would be here:
https://github.com/ethcore/parity/blob/81b57a57c713d9bc67efd8950ef1c94e0a0238a5/dapps/src/api/api.rs#L147-L152

It will be required to push through additional dependencies like SyncStatus and Client to get peers and some other stats (like latest block number perhaps).

[adrianbrink]

Awesome. I'll send a PR by Sunday. :-)

[adrianbrink]

@tomusdrw sorry, I'll send it tomorrow. Didn't have enough time today.

[andresilva]

I think this can be closed now.