/* This file is part of ethereum.js. ethereum.js is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ethereum.js is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with ethereum.js. If not, see . */ /** @file contract.js * @authors: * Marek Kotewicz * @date 2014 */ var web3 = require('./web3'); // jshint ignore:line var abi = require('./abi'); /** * This method should be called when we want to call / transact some solidity method from javascript * it returns an object which has same methods available as solidity contract description * usage example: * * var abi = [{ * name: 'myMethod', * inputs: [{ name: 'a', type: 'string' }], * outputs: [{name: 'd', type: 'string' }] * }]; // contract abi * * var myContract = web3.eth.contract('0x0123123121', abi); // creation of contract object * * myContract.myMethod('this is test string param for call'); // myMethod call (implicit, default) * myContract.call().myMethod('this is test string param for call'); // myMethod call (explicit) * myContract.transact().myMethod('this is test string param for transact'); // myMethod transact * * @param address - address of the contract, which should be called * @param desc - abi json description of the contract, which is being created * @returns contract object */ var contract = function (address, desc) { desc.forEach(function (method) { // workaround for invalid assumption that method.name is the full anonymous prototype of the method. // it's not. it's just the name. the rest of the code assumes it's actually the anonymous // prototype, so we make it so as a workaround. if (method.name.indexOf('(') === -1) { var displayName = method.name; var typeName = method.inputs.map(function(i){return i.type}).join(); method.name = displayName + '(' + typeName + ')'; } }); var inputParser = abi.inputParser(desc); var outputParser = abi.outputParser(desc); var result = {}; result.call = function (options) { result._isTransact = false; result._options = options; return result; }; result.transact = function (options) { result._isTransact = true; result._options = options; return result; }; desc.forEach(function (method) { var displayName = abi.methodDisplayName(method.name); var typeName = abi.methodTypeName(method.name); var impl = function () { var params = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments); var signature = abi.methodSignature(method.name); var parsed = inputParser[displayName][typeName].apply(null, params); var options = result._options || {}; options.to = address; options.data = signature + parsed; var isTransact = result._isTransact; // reset result._options = {}; result._isTransact = false; if (isTransact) { // it's used byt natspec.js // TODO: figure out better way to solve this web3._currentContractAbi = desc; web3._currentContractAddress = address; // transactions do not have any output, cause we do not know, when they will be processed web3.eth.transact(options); return; } var output = web3.eth.call(options); return outputParser[displayName][typeName](output); }; if (result[displayName] === undefined) { result[displayName] = impl; } result[displayName][typeName] = impl; }); return result; }; module.exports = contract;