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At some point you might want to open channels manually. Perhaps you'd like to have a direct channel to a friend's node or maybe no channels have been opened yet for a token that was just registered.

Open a Channel

This section will cover the endpoints you would use to:

  1. Open a channel
  2. Query the state of a channel

Open a channel

To open a channel a PUT request is made to the channels endpoint that includes a JSON object containing:

  1. The address of the node you'd like to open the channel with.
  2. The amount of tokens you want to deposit in the channel. (Remember that it is always possible to deposit more tokens later.)
  3. The settle timeout period which corresponds to the number of blocks that have to be mined before a closed channel can be settled.
curl -i -X PUT \
http://localhost:5001/api/v1/channels \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"partner_address": "0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9", "token_address": "0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700", "total_deposit": "1337", "settle_timeout": "500"}'

This will create a new channel and a successful request will return you the following response object:

HTTP/1.1 201 CREATED
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "token_network_address": "0x3C158a20b47d9613DDb9409099Be186fC272421a",
    "channel_identifier": "99",
    "partner_address": "0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9",
    "token_address": "0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700",
    "balance": "1337",
    "total_deposit": "1337",
    "total_withdraw": "0",
    "state": "opened",
    "settle_timeout": "500",
    "reveal_timeout": "50"
}

As you can tell by the response object a channel identifier has been generated. This means that there now is a channel with that identifier inside the token network.

You're now ready to start making payments.

{% page-ref page="3-make-a-payment.md" %}

{% hint style="info" %} Opening a channel with a partner node is not dependent on whether the partner node holds tokens or not. It will work either way. {% endhint %}

Query the state of a channel

Checking the current state of a channel is as easy as making a query to the channels endpoint while providing:

  1. The token address as a path parameter.
  2. The address of the partner node as a path parameter.
curl -i \
http://localhost:5001/api/v1/channels/0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700/0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9

This will give you the same response object as when opening a channel.