Find address which called the method?

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How can a contract method find the address which invoked it?

Suppose I have a contract A with method B. I used xyz address to call method B then how can method B see xyz address.

dbryson · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-04 11:41:48Z

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Use the msg.sender variable. It's automatically available in the contract:

function hello() {
  address from = msg.sender;
}

More information in the solidity docs

answered May 4, 2016 at 11:41

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msg.sender would only return address of the direct caller, but if this caller a proxy contract it would not return an initial caller. The best suggestion so far is to to pass initial caller as a parameter ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/28977/23579
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niksmac · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-04 11:41:05Z

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Inside the contract you can use msg.sender to get the address of the caller. See Block and Transaction Properties for the list of global variables.

msg.sender (address): sender of the message (current call)

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