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Import a key

POST
/v1/key/import

Import an externally generated key into the wallet. Note that if you wish to back up the imported key, you must do so by backing up the entire wallet database, because imported keys were not derived from the wallet’s master derivation key.

Authorizations

Request Body

APIV1POSTKeyImportRequest is the request for POST /v1/key/import

object
private_key

PrivateKey is an exported ed25519PrivateKey

Array<integer>
wallet_handle_token
string

Responses

200

Response to POST /v1/key/import

APIV1POSTKeyImportResponse is the response to POST /v1/key/import friendly:ImportKeyResponse

object
address
string
error
boolean
message
string