How can we search a block using transaction Id TxID or hash

Question

What can be the probable use case or a platform where a block is to be searched by using a transaction ID or a hash. Is there any platform where searching of a block is required??

Answer 1

The most obvious use case would be to use it for provenance and auditability. To get the block details to check the transaction history and to get an update on the key. 

Hyperledger Fabric actually does that. In Fabric, before a block is committed and the current state of the block gets updated, the MVCC check validates if there are two concurrent transactions that exist in the same block is trying to update the same key. For that, you need to get the block for the transaction ID to understand why your transaction was invalidated. This will help you find the other transactions which tried to use the same key. like yours. Coming back to hyperledger you can use GetBlockByTxID and GetBlockByNumber exposed via QSCC so external observer would be to retrieve the block

Answer 2

You can use the following function:

$ web3.eth.getBlock(blockHashOrBlockNumber [, returnTransactionObjects] [, callback])

This will return all the details of the Block. Example:

{
 "number": 3,
 "hash": "0xef95f2f1ed3ca60b048b4bf67cde2195961e0bba6f70bcbea9a2c4e133e34b46",
 "parentHash": "0x2302e1c0b972d00932deb5dab9eb2982f570597d9d42504c05d9c2147eaf9c88",
 "nonce": "0xfb6e1a62d119228b",
 "sha3Uncles": "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
 "logsBloom": "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
 "transactionsRoot": "0x3a1b03875115b79539e5bd33fb00d8f7b7cd61929d5a3c574f507b8acf415bee",
 "stateRoot": "0xf1133199d44695dfa8fd1bcfe424d82854b5cebef75bddd7e40ea94cda515bcb",
 "miner": "0x8888f1f195afa192cfee860698584c030f4c9db1",
 "difficulty": BigNumber,
 "totalDifficulty": BigNumber,
 "size": 616,
 "extraData": "0x",
 "gasLimit": 3141592,
 "gasUsed": 21662,
 "timestamp": 1429287689,
 "transactions": [
   "0x9fc76417374aa880d4449a1f7f31ec597f00b1f6f3dd2d66f4c9c6c445836d8b"
 ],
 "uncles": []
}
*/

Answer 3

You can use the curl command. But this will work only if the node is running locally. 

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBlockByNumber","params":["0x200100", true],"id":1}' http://localhost:8545

Answer 4

If the Blockchain you want to know is online, then you can use this: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer

If it's a private blockchain, then you will have to use it locally. You can download it here: https://github.com/hyperledger/blockchain-explorer