Custom metadata urls for ERC1155 tokens

Question

I have create a very basic ERC1155 token from this tutorial:

https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/3.x/erc1155

// contracts/GameItems.sol
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.6.0;

import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC1155/ERC1155.sol";

contract GameItems is ERC1155 {
    uint256 public constant GOLD = 0;
    uint256 public constant SILVER = 1;
    uint256 public constant THORS_HAMMER = 2;
    uint256 public constant SWORD = 3;
    uint256 public constant SHIELD = 4;

    constructor() public ERC1155("https://game.example/api/item/{id}.json") {
        _mint(msg.sender, GOLD, 10**18, "");
        _mint(msg.sender, SILVER, 10**27, "");
        _mint(msg.sender, THORS_HAMMER, 1, "");
        _mint(msg.sender, SWORD, 10**9, "");
        _mint(msg.sender, SHIELD, 10**9, "");
    }
}

As you can see, 5 tokens are created when the contract is deployed. Each of this 5 token is associated to a metadata file:

https://game.example/api/item/0000.....0001.json
https://game.example/api/item/0000.....0002.json
https://game.example/api/item/0000.....0003.json
https://game.example/api/item/0000.....0004.json
https://game.example/api/item/0000.....0005.json

I want to customize this 5 urls. They need to be very different. Is it possible ? I can override ERC1155 functions but i want to be compliant to ERC1155 in order to keep my token compatible with market places.

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, you can make changes in the functions (e.g. changing the metadata URL), but you cannot change the number/types of input arguments nor return values, because this would violate the interface (see Function Overriding for more details).

Note that if you were inheriting from ERC1155Mintable, you could also call setURI to update your metadata URLs.