Fine graininess of interface collisions between protocols

Question

While working on integrating the Balancer Exchange protocol in my project, I noticed this interface defined in their exchange proxy:

interface TokenInterface {
    function balanceOf(address) external view returns (uint);
    function allowance(address, address) external view returns (uint);
    function approve(address, uint) external returns (bool);
    function transfer(address, uint) external returns (bool);
    function transferFrom(address, address, uint) external returns (bool);
    function deposit() external payable;
    function withdraw(uint) external;
}

This is almost an ERC-20 interface, but it has two custom functions, deposit and withdraw. The reason why these functions exist is out of scope for this question.

I want to call this function on the exchange proxy:

function smartSwapExactIn(
    TokenInterface tokenIn,
    TokenInterface tokenOut,
    uint256 totalAmountIn,
    uint256 minTotalAmountOut,
    uint256 nPools
) external payable returns (uint256 totalAmountOut);

But I would like to use a vanilla ERC-20 interface instead of this custom TokenInterface when writing my contract.

Here is the tricky part. Balancer has already deployed the exchange proxy at address 0x3E66B66Fd1d0b02fDa6C811Da9E0547970DB2f21. I will do the same thing with my own contract (deploy it at some point), and obviously the compiler won't complain because I used another interface instead of TokenInterface (it can't know what its eventual purpose is).

Will the the protocols "cross swords" when I attempt to call Balancer's smartSwapExactIn function via a contract that defines an interface that is slightly different to TokenInterface for the tokenIn and tokenOut arguments?

Answer 1

Yes, the protocols will cross swords if the TokenInterface is not exactly the same.

I had to use the interface as defined in the Balancer repo:

interface TokenInterface {
    function balanceOf(address) external view returns (uint256);

    function allowance(address, address) external view returns (uint256);

    function approve(address, uint256) external returns (bool);

    function transfer(address, uint256) external returns (bool);

    function transferFrom(
        address,
        address,
        uint256
    ) external returns (bool);

    function deposit() external payable;

    function withdraw(uint256) external;
}