web3py encode method call parameters

Question

I want to encode the parameters needed to call a contract method. In web3js I would use web3.eth.abi.encodeParameters(types, values); I need to do the same in python I found a function called encodeABI() which takes arguments: fn_name, args=None, kwargs=None, data=None Unfortunately the documentation for this method is missing. So my question is how to encode these parameters using web3py?

Answer 1

Use contract.selector

Example:

For get contract use this code:

def getInfo(abi, address):
    api = w3.eth.contract(address=address, abi=abi)
    return api

def contractFunction(address, param1, param2):
    abi = """
            json abi code   
          """
    return getInfo(abi, address).functions.contractFunction(param1, param2)

And when you make sign transactions, in data you may use this code:

'data': str(contractFunction(contract, param1, param2).selector)
  + param1.rjust(64, '0')
  + param2.rjust(64, '0') 

There contract is first 4 symbols of hash contract function with parameter, and other symbols is symbols, appended to 64 symbols with 0

Answer 2

It seems that you should do:

my_contract.encodeABI (fn_name='my_method', args=[arg1, arg2, ...])

This is similar to Web3js:

myContract.methods.myMethod.encodeABI (arg1, arg2, ...)

See details in documentation.

Answer 3

You can use the eth-abi library.

>>> from eth-abi import encode_abi
>>> encode_abi(['bytes32', 'bytes32'], [b'a', b'b']) 
b'a\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00b\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'