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  @author Marcello Stanisci

=========
Bank API
=========

The following APIs are served from banks, in order to allow exchanges to
deposit funds to money recipients.  A typical scenario for calling this
APIs is after a merchant has deposited coins to the exchange, and the exchange
needs to give real money to the merchant.

------------------
Administrative API
------------------

This is `local` API, meant to make the bank communicate with trusted entities,
namely exchanges.

.. _bank-deposit:
.. http:post:: /admin/add/incoming

**Request:** The body of this request must have the format of a `BankDepositRequest`_.

**Response:**

:status 200 OK: The request has been correctly handled, so the funds have been transferred to
the recipient's account

:status 400 Bad Request: The bank replies a `BankIncomingError`_ object
**Details:**

.. _BankDepositRequest:
.. code-block:: tsref

  interface BankDepositRequest {

    // JSON 'amount' object. The amount the caller wants to transfer
    // to the recipient's count
    amount: Amount;

    // The id of this wire transfer
    wid: base32;

    // The sender's account identificator
    debit_account: number;

    // The recipient's account identificator
    credit_account: number;

  }

.. _BankIncomingError:
.. code-block:: tsref

  interface BankIncomingError {

    // The reason which made this request fail. Typically due to malfomation
    // of the POST's body
    reason: string

  }