This package allows you to generate TypeScript contract wrappers from ABI files. It's heavily inspired by Geth abigen but takes a different approach. You can write your custom handlebars templates which will allow you to seamlessly integrate the generated code into your existing codebase with existing conventions.
Here are the templates used to generate the contract wrappers used by 0x.js.e
yarn add -g @0x/abi-gen
abi-gen
Options:
--help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]
--abis Glob pattern to search for ABI JSON files
[string] [required]
--output, -o, --out Folder where to put the output files [string] [required]
--partials Glob pattern for the partial template files [string]
--template Path for the main template file that will be used to
generate each contract [string] [required]
--backend The backing Ethereum library your app uses. Either 'web3'
or 'ethers'. Ethers auto-converts small ints to numbers
whereas Web3 doesn't.
[string] [choices: "web3", "ethers"] [default: "web3"]
--network-id ID of the network where contract ABIs are nested in
artifacts [number] [default: 50]
You're required to pass a glob template where your abi files are located. TL;DR - here is the example from 0x.js.
--abis 'src/artifacts/@(Exchange|Token|TokenTransferProxy|EtherToken|TokenRegistry).json
We could've just used --abis 'src/artifacts/*.json
but we wanted to exclude some of the abi files.
The abi file should be either a Truffle contract artifact (a JSON object with an abi key) or a JSON abi array.
You need to also specify the location of your main template used for every contract --template
as well as the partial templates --partials
that can later be used from the main one.
The best way to get started is to copy 0x.js templates and start adjusting them for your needs.
We use handlebars template engine under the hood.
You need to have a master template called contract.mustache
. it will be used to generate each contract wrapper. Although - you don't need and probably shouldn't write all your logic in a single template file. You can write partial templates and as long as they are within a partials folder - they will be registered and available.
For now you don't get much on top of methods abi, some useful helpers and a contract name because it was enough for our use-case, but if you need something else - create a PR. See the type definition of what we pass to the render method.
Output files will be generated within an output folder with names converted to camel case and taken from abi file names. If you already have some files in that folder they will be overwritten.
We welcome improvements and fixes from the wider community! To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
Please read our contribution guidelines before getting started.
If you don't have yarn workspaces enabled (Yarn < v1.0) - enable them:
yarn config set workspaces-experimental true
Then install dependencies
yarn install
To build this package and all other monorepo packages that it depends on, run the following from the monorepo root directory:
PKG=@0x/abi-gen yarn build
Or continuously rebuild on change:
PKG=@0x/abi-gen yarn watch
yarn clean
yarn lint