Draft for an IC Canisters Library

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The Motoko base library

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Draft for an IC Canisters Library #574

Closed kentosugama closed 1 year ago

kentosugama commented 1 year ago

Just seeing what this would look like before (potentially) creating a separate repo and a library for these definitions.

Some considerations:

To ensure backwards compatibility, it might be good to have these in a separate library from base (that could be published on mops) that would not have the same guarantee
Should we also provide wrappers to make it easier to make these calls?
These bindings are generated using didc

chenyan-dfinity commented 1 year ago

You may be using an out-dated didc. The latest one converts vec nat8 to Blob.

Another option is that:

import service "ic:canister_id"

automatically fetches the did file from metadata and generate the Motoko binding in the dfx build process. Then there is no need to have a library like this.

ggreif commented 1 year ago

You may be using an out-dated didc. The latest one converts vec nat8 to Blob.

Another option is that:
import service "ic:canister_id"
automatically fetches the did file from metadata and generate the Motoko binding in the dfx build process. Then there is no need to have a library like this.

What about the management canister? I doubt you can fetch it this way.

nomeata commented 1 year ago

What about the management canister? I doubt you can fetch it this way.

Maybe it should :-)

kentosugama commented 1 year ago

Oh! I didn't know about that feature. Yes maybe this library is not needed then.

kentosugama commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/dfinity/sdk/pull/3329

Working on having this in dfx.

EDIT: Done