Elixir Ethers is a comprehensive library for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and its ecosystem. Heavily inspired by the ethers.js library, Elixir Ethers leverages macros to convert Ethereum contract ABIs into first-class Elixir modules during compile time, complete with documentation and type-specs.
You can install the package by adding ethers
to the list of dependencies in your mix.exs
file::
def deps do
[
{:ethers, "~> 0.1.0-dev", github: "alisinabh/elixir_ethers"}
]
end
The complete documentation is available on hexdocs.
To use Elixir Ethers, ensure you have a configured JSON-RPC endpoint. By default, Ethers utilizes Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway.
To send transactions, you need a wallet client capable of signing transactions and exposing a JSON-RPC endpoint. Configure the endpoint using the following config parameter (you can also specify the endpoint per-call):
# config.exs
import Config
config :ethereumex, url: "[URL_HERE]"
For more information, refer to ethereumex.
To use Elixir Ethers, you must have your contract's ABI, which can be obtained from etherscan.io.
This library also supports standard contract interfaces such as ERC20
, ERC721
and some more (refer to built-in contracts in hex-doc).
Create a module for your contract as follows:
defmodule MyERC20Token do
use Ethers.Contract, abi_file: "path/to/abi.json", default_address: "[Token address here (optional)]"
end
After defining the module, all the functions can be called like any other Elixir module. The documentation is also available giving the developer a first-class experience.
iex> MyERC20Token.balance_of("0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2")
{:ok, [654294510138460920346]}
iex> h MyERC20Token.balance_of
def balance_of(owner, overrides \\ [])
@spec balance_of(Ethers.Types.t_address(), Keyword.t()) ::
{:ok, [non_neg_integer()]}
| {:ok, Ethers.Types.t_hash()}
| {:ok, Ethers.Contract.t_function_output()}
Executes balanceOf(address _owner) on the contract.
## Parameters
• _owner: `:address`
• overrides: Overrides and options for the call.
• :to: The address of the recipient contract. (Required)
• :action: Type of action for this function (:call, :send or
:prepare) Default: :call.
• :rpc_opts: Options to pass to the RCP client e.g. :url.
## Return Types
• {:uint, 256}
Sending transactions is also straightforward, as Elixir Ethers automatically determines whether a function is a view function or a state-changing function, using eth_call
or eth_sendTransaction
accordingly.
You can override this behavior with the :action
override.
Ensure that you specify a from
option to inform your client which account to use:
iex> MyERC20Token.transfer("0x[Recipient Address Here]", Ethers.Utils.to_wei(1), from: "0x[Your address here]")
{:ok, "0xf313ff7ff54c6db80ad44c3ad58f72ff0fea7ce88e5e9304991ebd35a6e76000"}
Elixir Ethers provides functionality for creating event filters and fetching events from the RPC endpoint using eth_getLogs
.
Each contract in Ethers generates an EventFilters
module (e.g. MyERC20Token.EventFilter
s) that can be used to create filters for events.
To create an event filter and use the Ethers.get_logs
function, follow this example:
iex> {:ok, filter} = MyERC20Token.EventFilters.transfer("0x[From Address Here]", nil)
Also nil
can be used for a parameter in EventFilters functions to show that it should not be filtered.
Then you can simply list the logs.
iex> Ethers.get_logs(filter)
{:ok,
[
%Ethers.Event{
address: "0x5883c66ca442461d406f330775d42954bfcf7d92",
block_hash: "0x83de67fd285067b838790406ea68f21a3afbc0ade534047725b5ccfb904c9ed3",
block_number: 17077047,
topics: ["Transfer(address,address,uint256)",
"0x6b75d8af000000e20b7a7ddf000ba900b4009a80",
"0x230507f6a391ae5ac0ec124f1c5b8ce454fe3f3d"],
topics_raw: ["0xddf252ad1be2c89b69c2b068fc378daa952ba7f163c4a11628f55a4df523b3ef",
"0x0000000000000000000000006b75d8af000000e20b7a7ddf000ba900b4009a80",
"0x000000000000000000000000230507f6a391ae5ac0ec124f1c5b8ce454fe3f3d"],
transaction_hash: "0xaa6fb2e1bbb27f667e76b03e8cde23db694207e06b9aa810d4c20c1f109a58e5",
transaction_index: 0,
data: [761112156078097834180608],
log_index: 0,
removed: false
},
%Ethers.Event{...},
...
]}
This project was not possible if it was not for the great :ex_abi library and its contributors.
Also a special thanks to the authors and contributors of :ethereumex library.