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Solidity Programming Essentials. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Solidity Programming Essentials. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231181
Pages 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
Profile icon Ritesh Modi

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts 3. Chapter 2: Installing Ethereum and Solidity 4. Chapter 3: Introducing Solidity 5. Chapter 4: Global Variables and Functions 6. Chapter 5: Expressions and Control Structures 7. Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
8. Chapter 6: Writing Smart Contracts 9. Chapter 7: Solidity Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks 10. Chapter 8: Exceptions, Events, and Logging 11. Chapter 9: Basics of Truffle and Unit Testing 12. Chapter 10: Debugging Contracts 13. Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts
14. Chapter 11: Assembly Programming 15. Chapter 12: Upgradable Smart Contracts 16. Chapter 13: Writing Secure Contracts 17. Chapter 14: Writing Token Contracts 18. Chapter 15: Solidity Design Patterns 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding dependency injection

When we have dependencies between smart contracts, the dependent smart contract would need an instance of the independent smart contract to invoke its function. There are two choices in such cases: either the smart contract itself creates a new instance of the contract, or it might already expect the smart contract instance to be available. If the dependent smart contract creates a new instance, it will have an instance address directly available using the new keyword, and if it expects the instance to be already available, then the address of the contract instance must be supplied to the dependent smart contract.

Supplying the address of the independent smart contract instance is also known as injection or, in other words, the dependencies of a smart contract are injected at runtime rather than the dependencies getting created at design time. Using the new keyword is a design-time static creation of a smart contract.

The dependencies or independent...

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