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Overhaul contract creation section in the documentation
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Creating Contracts
******************
Contracts can be created "from outside" or from Solidity contracts.
Contracts can be created "from outside" via Ethereum transactions or from within Solidity contracts.
IDEs, such as `Remix <https://remix.ethereum.org/>`_, make the creation process seamless using UI elements.
Creating contracts programatically on Ethereum is best done via using the JavaScript API `web3.js <https://github.com/etherem/web3.js>`_.
As of today it has a method called `web3.eth.Contract <https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/web3-eth-contract.html#new-contract>`_
to facilitate contract creation.
When a contract is created, its constructor (a function with the same
name as the contract) is executed once.
A constructor is optional. Only one constructor is allowed, and this means
overloading is not supported.
From ``web3.js``, i.e. the JavaScript
API, this is done as follows::
// Need to specify some source including contract name for the data param below
var source = "contract CONTRACT_NAME { function CONTRACT_NAME(uint a, uint b) {} }";
// The json abi array generated by the compiler
var abiArray = [
{
"inputs":[
{"name":"x","type":"uint256"},
{"name":"y","type":"uint256"}
],
"type":"constructor"
},
{
"constant":true,
"inputs":[],
"name":"x",
"outputs":[{"name":"","type":"bytes32"}],
"type":"function"
}
];
var MyContract_ = web3.eth.contract(source);
MyContract = web3.eth.contract(MyContract_.CONTRACT_NAME.info.abiDefinition);
// deploy new contract
var contractInstance = MyContract.new(
10,
11,
{from: myAccount, gas: 1000000}
);
.. index:: constructor;arguments
Internally, constructor arguments are passed after the code of
the contract itself, but you do not have to care about this
if you use ``web3.js``.
Internally, constructor arguments are passed :ref:`ABI encoded <ABI>` after the code of
the contract itself, but you do not have to care about this if you use ``web3.js``.
If a contract wants to create another contract, the source code
(and the binary) of the created contract has to be known to the creator.