diff --git a/docs/abi-spec.rst b/docs/abi-spec.rst index 41967dd46d6b..0d48b51dd706 100644 --- a/docs/abi-spec.rst +++ b/docs/abi-spec.rst @@ -252,7 +252,21 @@ Given the contract: } -Thus, for our ``Foo`` example if we wanted to call ``baz`` with the parameters ``69`` and +Thus, for our ``Foo`` example, if we wanted to call ``bar`` with the argument ``["abc", "def"]``, we would pass 68 bytes total, broken down into: + +- ``0xfce353f6``: the Method ID. This is derived from the signature ``bar(bytes3[2])``. +- ``0x6162630000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000``: the first part of the first + parameter, a ``bytes3`` value ``"abc"`` (left-aligned). +- ``0x6465660000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000``: the second part of the first + parameter, a ``bytes3`` value ``"def"`` (left-aligned). + +In total: + +.. code-block:: none + + 0xfce353f661626300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006465660000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 + +If we wanted to call ``baz`` with the parameters ``69`` and ``true``, we would pass 68 bytes total, which can be broken down into: - ``0xcdcd77c0``: the Method ID. This is derived as the first 4 bytes of the Keccak hash of @@ -271,20 +285,6 @@ In total: It returns a single ``bool``. If, for example, it were to return ``false``, its output would be the single byte array ``0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000``, a single bool. -If we wanted to call ``bar`` with the argument ``["abc", "def"]``, we would pass 68 bytes total, broken down into: - -- ``0xfce353f6``: the Method ID. This is derived from the signature ``bar(bytes3[2])``. -- ``0x6162630000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000``: the first part of the first - parameter, a ``bytes3`` value ``"abc"`` (left-aligned). -- ``0x6465660000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000``: the second part of the first - parameter, a ``bytes3`` value ``"def"`` (left-aligned). - -In total: - -.. code-block:: none - - 0xfce353f661626300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006465660000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 - If we wanted to call ``sam`` with the arguments ``"dave"``, ``true`` and ``[1,2,3]``, we would pass 292 bytes total, broken down into: