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In the greeter tutorial, the greeterContract is deployed using new:

var greeterContract = web3.eth.contract(greeterCompiled.greeter.info.abiDefinition);
var greeter = greeterContract.new(_greeting,{from:web3.eth.accounts[0], data: greeterCompiled.greeter.code, gas: 10000000000000}, function(e, contract){...

What exactly are the arguments I'm providing to the function?

Where in the go-ethereum source code is the new function defined?

Where in the go-ethereum source code is the web3 class defined?

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The "new" is a nice form to write a sendTransaction.

The web3 interface transform your params using the contract abi to write the sendTransaction command.

contract.new(param_1, param_2, ..., param_n , options, callback)

The first parameters (param_1, .. , param_n) will be passed to your contract constructor.

Only the last two parameters can have extra meaning. See the implementation of function new to check how they check for these parameters.

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  • In the greeter tutorial, the callback function is entered line by line on the geth console which i find rather cumbersome. Can I define the callback in a js script and load the function using loadScript and then supply the reference to that function as callback?
    – TMOTTM
    Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 21:02
  • @TMOTTM Sorry, but I don't know. Generally I don't use the geth console for complex things like async transactions.
    – Ismael ♦
    Commented Jun 17, 2016 at 5:24

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