How do you interact with a deployed contract as the owner?

Question

I'm using Hardhat as my development framework, but there are a few beginner questions that I have about interacting with a deployed contract that I couldn't quite find in the hardhat docs (or if this involves Infura?).

1. Can you control the owner address of the contract when deploying? How do you go about setting that? The address you want to use as the owner must be available on the network your deploying to? What about local development on the hardhat network?

2. I've seen the docs about calling contract functions after you deploy using the hardhat console (instantiating a factory, await calls to a function, etc.), is this the "standard" way to call contract functions such as administrative onlyOwner functions like withdraw() or pause(), etc.? Is this approach acceptable for mainnet?

Answer 1

• Can you control the owner address of the contract when deploying?

await ethers.getSigners();, returns an array of signers, by default when deploying if you're not specifying any signer. It uses index[0] of ethers.getSigners();

• How do you go about setting that?

You can call functions using other signers (accounts / wallets): await yourContract.connect(signer[index]).yourFunction();

• The address you want to use as the owner must be available on the network your deploying to?

All addresses across all EVM compatible chains (Ethereum Virtual Machine) so you can use for example your MetaMask to interact with any other EVM-compatible network using the same address (so same private key).

• What about local development on the hardhat network?

theoretically, you can use the wallet you're using on your local to deploy on mainnet.

• I've seen the docs about calling contract functions after you deploy using the hardhat console (instantiating a factory, await calls to a function, etc.), is this the "standard" way to call contract functions such as administrative onlyOwner functions like withdraw() or pause(), etc.? Is this approach acceptable for mainnet?

Hardhat is a development environment tool for compiling, deploying, testing, and debugging your Ethereum software. You can interact with your smart contract using the hardhat console, using scripts (e.g, web3.js ethers.js, etc), CLI, remix, metamask, etherscan, etc. There is no standard, for this.

You can deploy on testnet first to test, if it works on testnet it'll work on mainnet