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Building Blockchain Projects

You're reading from  Building Blockchain Projects

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122147
Pages 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
Profile icon Narayan Prusty

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Understanding Decentralized Applications 2. Understanding How Ethereum Works 3. Writing Smart Contracts 4. Getting Started with web3.js 5. Building a Wallet Service 6. Building a Smart Contract Deployment Platform 7. Building a Betting App 8. Building Enterprise Level Smart Contracts 9. Building a Consortium Blockchain

Libraries


Libraries are similar to contracts, but their purpose is that they are deployed only once at a specific address and their code is reused by various contracts. This means that if library functions are called, their code is executed in the context of the calling contract; that is, this points to the calling contract, and especially, the storage from the calling contract can be accessed. As a library is an isolated piece of source code, it can only access state variables of the calling contract if they are explicitly supplied (it would have no way to name them otherwise).

Libraries cannot have state variables; they don't support inheritance and they cannot receive Ether. Libraries can contain structs and enums.

Once a Solidity library is deployed to the blockchain, it can be used by anyone, assuming you know its address and have the source code (with only prototypes or complete implementation). The source code is required by the Solidity compiler so that it can make sure that the methods...

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