Questions tagged [encoding]
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How to encode function call in C
I understand web3 can be basically used for every existing task, however, is there anything we can use for C? My C program is communicating with the RPC server using the curl library, by posting JSON ...
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Encoded input params
I created a simple test contract with a single method:
pragma solidity ^0.4.24;
contract SimpleTest {
function testFunc(string name, bool isFirst) public {
//do stuff
}
}
I'm ...
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Is pre 0.5.0 keccak256(a,b) equivalent to post 0.5.0 keccak256(abi.encodePacked(a,b))?
In pre 0.5.0 Solidity if you wanted to hash a some set of data you would do keccak(a, b, c). Post 0.5.0 keccak only takes 1 arg and it is suggested to use keccak(abi.encodePacked(a,b,c)) instead
But ...
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Understanding first evm word of reference types in assembly
Given the following function:
function getArrayItems(bytes calldata) external returns (
bytes4 _signature,
bytes32 _wutIsThis,
bytes32 _length,
bytes32 _firstItem
) {
assembly {
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Where is the position of each paramter in a smart contract function when encoded as inputdata in a transaction
When I reviewed the BEC attack, I found the position of each parameters value in real transaction was not corresponding in to definition of function in smart contract.
The exploit transaction is at:
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Decoding parameters with inline assembly in Solidity
I Would like to know if there is a solidity equivalent to this web3:
web3.eth.abi.decodeParameter()
I'm currently looking at something like Seriality, but wondering if there was a supported ...
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encoding several variables into a byte
I want to define a byte256 and I want to assign different sections of the byte to different variables, any literature or guidance is appreciated.
for further clarity I want to do something like
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Golang web3.eth.abi.encodeParameters equivalent
I need to encode some data in golang like using the web3.eth.abi.encodeParameters(paramsTypes[], params[]) I tried to use golang's ABI.Pack(functionName string, params) but it's not a good solution ...
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what type of encoding is used by the abi specification in solidity
the abi specification of solidity which provides functions like abi.encodePacked() using a certain type of encoding (eg: for functions, a 4 byte function signature hash followed by encoding of ...
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web3py encode method call parameters
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 ...
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What are function signatures in ABIv2 and how are they enhancing Ethereum?
EIP-712 talks about function signatures being bytes4. I understand that the new version of the ABI format will contain a pre-defined set of keccak256 hashes of function names, as per the work done on ...
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Is Data Stored on Ethereum encrypted or only RLP encoded?
Is Data Stored on Ethereum encrypted or only RLP encoded? If data is not encrypted, is there some way to secure and encrypt it using AES encryption algorithm in cipher block chaining (CBC) or XTS mode ...
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Deserialising bytes to a solidity struct
Say I have a struct like
struct AppState {
address player1;
address player2;
uint256 winner;
uint256[100] board;
uint256 move;
}
Now I have a function which receives a byte ...
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abi.encodePacked with lot of zeros
According this documentation
types shorter than 32 bytes are neither zero padded nor sign extended
and
When I use abi.encodePacked(address, uint, uint, address) I am getting a result with lot of ...
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ethereumjs-abi equivalent for Golang?
ethereumjs-abi is great for easily ABI encoding and decoding in javascript. Is there an equivalently simple package for Golang?
Geth's accounts/abipackage does this, but there's a lot of setup and it'...
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As of today (Solidity v0.4.22)… Is there a way to return structs from public functions?
https://medium.com/coinmonks/solidity-tutorial-returning-structs-from-public-functions-e78e48efb378
According to this article (link above), on Medium I'd have to use tuples... but this was so in ...
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How to unpack/decode parameters encoded with web3.eth.abi.encodeParameters in Solidity?
My client app (nodejs) packs some arguments to pass to a smart contracts as bytes _data (similar to ERC223 calls with fallback). I pack the arguments in my JS client like this:
const packedArgs = ...
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Potential attack
I have two computers, one of them is airgapped.
I had also two MEW private key, stored in the airgapped computer, I made a lot of transaction from the first private key to the second one.
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Apparent mismatch between Oraclize CBOR and python3 CBOR encodings
I encoded a value using the Oraclize CBOR library like so:
Buffer.buffer memory cborArgs;
Buffer.init(cborArgs, 64);
cborArgs.startArray();
cborArgs.encodeUInt(10);
cborArgs....
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No luck recovering public key after EIP 155
I'm trying to understand Ethereum transaction signing, but for some reason I'm unable to verify the signature.
I have a test account, 0xb2c899884790aa9e256a2d4b2256ca3319e64e32, its public key is
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What's the point of RLP over other encoding formats? [duplicate]
What makes Ethereum need an encoding like RLP? What's so special about this format over others? How does it fit in specifically for Ethereum's needs?
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Using web3.js to do base58 (ipfs) encoding and decoding?
Is it possible to use the web3.js libary to do base58 encoding and decoding?
It seems that web3.js includes the bignumber library, but I'm unsure as to whether this can handle the base58 encoding ...
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How to RLP-encode messages in Solidity
I'm trying to figure out how to interact with the current version of the Casper contract from Solidity. The vote-function in the casper contract takes an array of bytes, which represents the RLP-...
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field size and value range of chainId (EIP-155)
EIP-155 defined a list of chain IDs, e.g. main net is 1 Ropsten is 2. I don't seem to be able to find a definition about its supposed value range and data size.
Quoting the yellow paper rule (287)
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Encode raw transaction data for inner transaction data for transfer using erc223
How do I encode data for inner transaction call of ERC223Receiver contract after transferring erc223 tokens to it?
example:
Contract ERC223Receiver {
function foo(uint256 a) {
// some ...
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How to convert decode/encode string to Base58?
How to convert decode/encode string to Base58 on solidity?
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Python and Solidity keccak256 function gives different results
I am working on implementing a smart contract application in which, on and off chain calculations will exist. I will have to calculate the Hash Function of multiple integers with Python and Solidity. ...
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How to encode dynamic types when calling a contract function?
I am trying to figure out how to calculate the offset in bytes to the start of their data area, measured from the start of the value encoding as described here in the Solidity docs for dynamic ...
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How to decode Log.Data in Go
I'm fetching the logs using client.SubscribeFilterLogs. The event parameters are encoded in types.Log.Data. How can I decode it in go?
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Where can I test programming tokens?
When I follow the instructions on ethereum.org I need to download the wallet and sync it again by downloading all the blocks. This takes hours everytime, I feel I'm missing out on something. Is there ...
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How do I do the equivalent of Solidity's bytes32(a_signed_integer) in JavaScript?
I've got an app that takes various kinds of input via an HTML form, but always ends up sending it to a contract as bytes32. The expectation is that another contract that ultimately consumes the data ...
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user api to exchange eth token and wallet address creating using code
Is there any API to help exchange ether or tokens online which will help in coding an exchange.
For bitcoin one can generate a wallet address, is it possible to generate a wallet address for Ethereum ...
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Encoding multidimensional arrays in raw transaction data
Say, there is a function in a contract:
function foo(uint[2][2][2] numbers) {}
How the following array should be encoded in raw transaction data?
[
[
[ 1, 2 ],
[ 3, 4 ]
],
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What is the correct encoding for geth keystore files?
I'm attempting to import a transcribed geth UTC--... format keyfile into geth on ubuntu, using this guidance, and am getting the following error:
Fatal: Failed to load the private key: encoding/hex: ...
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What encoding is used for Ethereum addresses? [duplicate]
Is it Base58Check, which is used for Bitcoin addresses? Or something else?
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Case - does it make sense? [duplicate]
Am I right, that 0xc1384BAFDD139a61998e1f612948da22fD878BD2 and 0xc1384bafdd139a61998e1f612948da22fd878bd2 are the same addresses?
I'm asking, because, for example, in Bitcoin base64 is used, so ...
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Ethereum Contract ABI - Encoding for functions with no arguments
I am using argument encoding from this page (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Contract-ABI) to build data field for offline signing. I am using eth.sendRawTransaction to call a function ...
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eth_sendTransaction for function with address type parameters
I'm interacting with my local private blockchain created using geth. I'm able to use eth_call, but now I have some problems with eth_sendTransaction.
The signature of the function is this:
function ...
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Storing hardcoded calldata in a Solidity contract
I've been trying to store a hardcoded call in a contract, but I'm getting confused on the encoding.
Let's say I have the following bytes:
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