Creating a Protocol Contract (Advanced)
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You can create any contract you want, but there are some requirements that you need to follow:
- Add the Protocol Contract to protocolContractAddresses
Under src/contract/contractmanager.h, you will find a global
std::unordered_map which contains the registered protocol contract addresses. You should stick to the same format as the other contracts, and add your contract address to the map.- Pay attention to the contract's state
It is required to pay attention to the state of the contract and how nodes will interact between each other. For example, if you have a contract that is doing parallel processing of a task, you need to make sure that this task can be replicated with the same result in any node. Not taking care of the state of a contract will eventually lead to undefined behavior, and that's a hornet's nest nobody wants to touch, right?
- Override ethCall() function and take care of your revert conditions
It is necessary to override the
ethCall() function in order to make functions callable by a transaction or an eth_call. Protocol Contracts don't have automatic function parsing, neither handle call reverts, so you need to handle it all yourself.- Pay attention to this->getCommit()
When
this->getCommit() == false, it means that the current call is trying to simulate if it's going to throw or not, but if this->getCommit() == true, it means that the current call is trying to commit to the state, and you should do it respectively if it doesn't throw.- Add a reference to the ContractManager
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