C#

In order to use the C# Interface generation feature of Factori, you will need to have Netezos and dotnet installed on your machine. For resources, look at:

  • Dotnet
  • https://netezos.dev/
  • https://github.com/baking-bad/netezos.

The C# SDK can be found in the src/csharp_sdk subfolder of your Factori project directory.

It is generated by activating the --csharp option of the factori import kt1 or factori import michelson commands, as seen below:

factori import kt1 <dir> KT1...XXX --network mainnet --name my_contract --csharp

<dir> is the working directory (it may be relative, such as .), and KT1...XXX is the address of the contract.

will create the directory <dir>/src/csharp_sdk where the following files and directories will appear:

  • blockchain.cs: A library for blockchain specific operations;
  • factori_types.cs: A library of types and functions used by all imported interfaces;
  • my_contract_code.json: the Micheline code of your contract (useful for deployment)
  • my_contract_csharp_interface.cs: the C# interface to your contract, described below.

The command also creates a Makefile with useful commands such as:

make csharp-init

which will initiate a C# project.

make format-csharp

will format the generated code.

make csharp-build

will build the code.

In order to run Program.cs, if you write e.g. a scenario in it, run

dotnet run --project src/csharp_sdk/

Description of the interface file

The interface file (my_contract_csharp_interface.cs using the convention from above) consists of both

  1. Types
  2. Functions

The types describe the contract's storage as well as all the input types of the contract's entrypoints (and any intermediate types which may need to be defined in the process). The functions are (mainly) of three kinds:

  1. A deploy function deploy_my_contract;
  2. Calling functions for each entrypoint, of the form call_<entrypoint_name>.
  3. Utility functions for manipulating types, so that in principle, you never have to use Micheline or Michelson directly:
    • Encoding functions from a type to Micheline (<type name>_encode);
    • Decoding functions from Micheline to a type (<type name>_decode);
    • Random generation of elements of the type (<type name>_generator).