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I'm trying to make a sendTransaction json rpc call and I don't know how to calculate the data paramether.
From the documentation:
data: DATA - The compiled code of a contract OR the hash of the invoked method signature and encoded parameters. For details see Ethereum Contract ABI
There is no specification how this should be made: the hash of the invoked method signature and encoded parameters
Yes, there's an Application Binary Interface Specification
The Application Binary Interface is the standard way to interact with contracts in the Ethereum ecosystem, both from outside the blockchain and for contract-to-contract interaction. Data is encoded according to its type, as described in this specification. The encoding is not self describing and thus requires a schema in order to decode.
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