How to have to two mappings to a struct?

Question

I have a exchange type of use case in which the customer needs access to a centralised wallet based on different access methods (eg email, apikeys, actual wallet address). I tried mapping twice to the same struct and remix kicked out an error.

Here is the sample code -

struct ClientWallet {
    uint clientBalance;  
    bool clientAccountExists; 
    bytes32 apiKeyHash;
}



mapping (address => ClientWallet) public ClientWallets; // direct access
mapping (bytes32 => ClientWallet) public ClientWallets; // hash of email

I can code a workaround by using more structs and variables but this seems pointless. I tried mapping bytes32 to address and then to ClientWallet but that failed.

Any ideas about this?

Answer 1

You have two variables with the same name (ClientWallets). If you give them different names, your code should compile. But note that the two mappings won't "point" to the same values. E.g. if you do:

mapping(address => ClientWallet) public ownerToWallet;
mapping(bytes32 => ClientWallet) public hashToWallet;

...

hashToWallet[something] = ownerToWallet[msg.sender];

you'll end up with two copies of the same struct. Modifying one won't affect the other.

What you likely want is something like this:

mapping(address => ClientWallet) public wallets;
mapping(bytes32 => address) public emailHashToAddress;

...

// e.g. to access a wallet by email hash
wallets[emailHashToAddress[hash]]