A tool that does abi.encodePacked to fill data field in eth_call?

Question

I'm trying to call a contract's deposit method using geth's eth_call. This function takes in value data in bytes:

{
  "from": "0xd9c9cd5f6779558b6e0ed4e6acf6b1947e7fa1f3",
  "to":   "0xebe8efa441b9302a0d7eaecc277c09d20d684540",
  "gas":  "0x1bd7c",
  "data": "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",
}

In solidity, I would pass in abi.encodePacked(arc20Address, assetID, assetAmount, abi.encodeWithSignature("deposit()")) and it will convert those parameters into bytedata for me.

But since I'm using geth, I was wondering if there's a tool I can use that will do this for me?

Answer 1

If you have the contract's ABI you can use encodeABI.

If you don't have the contract's ABI then you can use web3.eth.abi.encodeFunctionCall, or combine some of the other functions from web3.eth.abi.*.

If you don't want to use web3js there is ethereumjs-abi that implements similar functionality.

But since you are using geth then you have to look at web3 v0.20 documentation, in particular getData. Also some of the answers here: Encoding/Decoding contract ABI data my help with web3 v0.20.