api/rawtx endpoint added to return a JSON containing the raw transaction serialized as a hex-encoded string

README.md

@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ The end-points are:
 ```
   /api/tx/[:txid]
   /api/tx/525de308971eabd941b139f46c7198b5af9479325c2395db7f2fb5ae8562556c
+  /api/raw/[:rawid]
+  /api/raw/525de308971eabd941b139f46c7198b5af9479325c2395db7f2fb5ae8562556c
 ```
 ### Address
 ```

app/controllers/transactions.js

@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ var util        = require('util');
 
 var Rpc         = require('../../lib/Rpc');
 
+var imports     = require('soop').imports();
+var bitcore     = require('bitcore');
+var RpcClient   = bitcore.RpcClient;
+var config      = require('../../config/config');
+var bitcoreRpc  = imports.bitcoreRpc || new RpcClient(config.bitcoind);
+
 var tDb = require('../../lib/TransactionDb').default();
 var bdb = require('../../lib/BlockDb').default();
 
@@ -34,6 +40,17 @@ exports.send = function(req, res) {
   });
 };
 
+exports.rawTransaction = function (req, res, next, txid) {
+  console.log(txid);
+    bitcoreRpc.getRawTransaction(txid, function (err, transaction) {
+        if (err || !transaction)
+            return common.handleErrors(err, res);
+        else {
+            req.rawTransaction = { 'rawtx': transaction.result };
+            return next();
+        }
+    });
+};
 
 /**
  * Find transaction by hash ...
@@ -61,6 +78,16 @@ exports.show = function(req, res) {
   }
 };
 
+/**
+ * Show raw transaction
+ */
+exports.showRaw = function(req, res) {
+
+  if (req.rawTransaction) {
+    res.jsonp(req.rawTransaction);
+  }
+};
+
 
 var getTransaction = function(txid, cb) {
 

config/routes.js

@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ module.exports = function(app) {
   app.get(apiPrefix + '/txs', transactions.list);
   app.post(apiPrefix + '/tx/send', transactions.send);
 
+  // Raw Routes
+  app.get(apiPrefix + '/rawtx/:txid', transactions.showRaw);
+  app.param('txid', transactions.rawTransaction);
+
   // Address routes
   var addresses = require('../app/controllers/addresses');
   app.get(apiPrefix + '/addr/:addr', addresses.show);