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Clarify ABI & Solidity types

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Alex Beregszaszi 2017-09-11 15:03:49 +01:00
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@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ of them inside parentheses, separated by commas:
It is possible to form tuples of tuples, arrays of tuples and so on.
.. note::
Solidity supports all the types presented above with the same names with the exception of tuples. The ABI tuple type is utilised for encoding Solidity ``structs``.
Formal Specification of the Encoding
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@ -359,8 +362,8 @@ would result in the JSON:
Handling tuple types
--------------------
If tuples are part of the type, we still want to know the name of the components. Because of that,
the json structure gets arbitrarily nested in the following way:
Despite that names are intentionally not part of the ABI encoding they do make a lot of sense to be included
in the JSON to enable displaying it to the end user. The structure is nested in the following way:
An object with members ``name``, ``type`` and potentially ``components`` describes a typed variable.
The canonical type is determined until a tuple type is reached and the string description up