ethabi

The ABI, Application Binary Interface, is basically how you call functions in a contract and get data back.

An ABI determines such details as how functions are called and in which binary format information should be passed from one program component to the next...

An Ethereum smart contract is bytecode, EVM, on the Ethereum blockchain. Among the EVM, there could be several functions in a contract. An ABI is necessary so that you can specify which function in the contract to invoke, as well as get a guarantee that the function will return data in the format you are expecting. read more

This library encodes function calls and decodes their output.

Documentation

Installation

via cargo
```
cargo install ethabi-cli
```

via homebrew

brew tap paritytech/paritytech
brew install ethabi

Usage

Ethereum ABI coder.
  Copyright 2016-2017 Parity Technologies (UK) Limited

Usage:
    ethabi encode function <abi-path> <function-name> [-p <param>]... [-l | --lenient]
    ethabi encode params [-v <type> <param>]... [-l | --lenient]
    ethabi decode function <abi-path> <function-name> <data>
    ethabi decode params [-t <type>]... <data>
    ethabi decode log <abi-path> <event-name> [-l <topic>]... <data>
    ethabi -h | --help

Options:
    -h, --help         Display this message and exit.
    -l, --lenient      Allow short representation of input params.

Commands:
    encode             Encode ABI call.
    decode             Decode ABI call result.
    function           Load function from json ABI file.
    params             Specify types of input params inline.
    log                Decode event log.

Examples

ethabi encode params -v bool 1

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

ethabi encode params -v bool 1 -v string gavofyork -v bool 0

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000096761766f66796f726b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

ethabi encode params -v bool[] [1,0,false]

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

ethabi encode function examples/test.json foo -p 1

[{
	"type":"function",
	"inputs": [{
		"name":"a",
		"type":"bool"
	}],
	"name":"foo",
	"outputs": []
}]

455575780000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

ethabi decode params -t bool 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

bool true

ethabi decode params -t bool -t string -t bool 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000096761766f66796f726b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

bool true
string gavofyork
bool false

ethabi decode params -t bool[] 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

bool[] [true,false,false]

ethabi decode function ./examples/foo.json bar 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

[{
	"constant":false,
	"inputs":[{
		"name":"hello",
		"type":"address"
	}],
	"name":"bar",
	"outputs":[{
		"name":"",
		"type":"bool"
	}],
	"type":"function"
}]

bool true

ethabi decode log ./examples/event.json Event -l 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 0000000000000000000000004444444444444444444444444444444444444444

a bool true
b address 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444

Alternative tools

ethabi-js - javascript port of this library created by @jacogr

Parity toolchain

this project is a part of the parity toolchain