@tvasile1012/contract v0.0.1

@casperlabs/contract

This package allows a distributed app developer to create smart contracts for the open source CasperLabs project using AssemblyScript.

Installation

For each smart contract you create, make a project directory and initialize it.

mkdir project
cd project
npm init

npm init will prompt you for various details about your project; answer as you see fit but you may safely default everything except name which should follow the convention of your-contract-name.

Then install assembly script and this package in the project directory.

npm install --save-dev assemblyscript@0.9.1
npm install --save @casperlabs/contract

Usage

Add script entries for assembly script to your project's package.json; note that your contract name is used for the name of the wasm file.

{
  "name": "your-contract-name",
  ...
  "scripts": {
    "asbuild:optimized": "asc assembly/index.ts -b dist/your-contract-name.wasm --validate --optimize --use abort=",
    "asbuild": "npm run asbuild:optimized",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

In your project root, create an index.js file with the following contents:

const fs = require("fs");
​
const compiled = new WebAssembly.Module(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/dist/your-contract-name.wasm"));
​
const imports = {
    env: {
        abort(_msg, _file, line, column) {
            console.error("abort called at index.ts:" + line + ":" + column);
        }
    }
};
​
Object.defineProperty(module, "exports", {
    get: () => new WebAssembly.Instance(compiled, imports).exports
});

Create an assembly/tsconfig.json file in the following way:

{
  "extends": "../node_modules/assemblyscript/std/assembly.json",
  "include": [
    "./**/*.ts"
  ]
}

Sample smart contract

Create a assembly/index.ts file. This is where the code for your contract will go.

You can use the following sample snippet which demonstrates a very simple smart contract that immediately returns an error, which will write a message to a block if executed on the CasperLabs platform.

//@ts-nocheck
import {Error, ErrorCode} from "@casperlabs/contract/error";

// simplest possible feedback loop
export function call(): void {
    Error.fromErrorCode(ErrorCode.None).revert(); // ErrorCode: 1
}

If you prefer a more complicated first contract, you can look at example contracts on the CasperLabs github repository for inspiration.

Compile to wasm

To compile your contract to wasm, use npm to run the asbuild script from your project root.

npm run asbuild

If the build is successful, you should see a dist folder in your root folder and in it should be your-contract-name.wasm