Flow Cadence Template Utilities

Flow Cadut supports Cadence interaction by wrapping template files in Javascript.

Flow Cadut (Flow Cadence Utilities) contains two core packages:

1. Flow Cadence Utilities (@onflow/flow-cadut)
2. Flow Cadence Template Generator (@onflow/flow-cadut-generator)

Flow Cadence Utilites: Flow Cadut

The Flow Cadence Utilities (@onflow/flow-cadut) package is the API responsible for parsing cadence templates, mapping arguments/imports to these templates, and interacting with the chain. It is the set of runtime utilities which are used behind the scenes by the JavaScript template files generated by @onflow/flow-cadut-generator.

For more information, see the README file.

You can find a list of available methods with examples at API Documentation

Flow Cadence Template Generator: Flow Cadut Generator

The Flow Cadence Template Generator (@onflow/flow-cadut-generator) is responsible for parsing Cadence (.cdc) template files and translating them to easy-to-use JavaScript (.js) files. The Cadence Template Generator, takes either path to a local folder or url to a Github repository and generates JavaScript files which wrap the Cadence code and facilitate sending the templated interactions to the Flow network.

Usage

Installation

In order to install the Flow Cadence Template Generator CLI, run the following command to add it to your project's devDependencies:

npm install -D @onflow/flow-cadut-generator

Note that any generated code will require @onflow/flow-cadut as a dependency which can be installed by running the following command in your project root:

npm install @onflow/flow-cadut

CLI options

flow-generate [input] [output]

Generate corresponding JavaScript files from a cadence input folder

Options:
      --help        Show help                                          [boolean]
      --version     Show version number                                [boolean]
  -i, --input       Cadence input directory or Github repository URL
                                                 [string] [default: "./cadence"]
  -o, --output      Javascript output directory
                                           [string] [default: "./src/generated"]
  -b, --branch      Git branch to use if git repository used as input   [string]
  -d, --dependency  Dependency to use in generated templates
                                        [string] [default: "@onflow/flow-cadut"]
  -w, --watch       Whether to run the generator as a standalone build or in
                    watch mode                        [boolean] [default: false]

Local Folder

# long flags
npx flow-generate --input ./cadence --output ./src/generated

# short flags
npx flow-generate -i ./cadence -o ./src/generated

# no flags
npx flow-generate ./cadence ./src/generated

GitHub Repository

For GitHub repositories you can specify branch you want to pull with --branch or -b flags. If you omit it, then generator will default to master/main branch.

# long flags
npx flow-generate --input https://github.com/onflow/flow-core-contracts --branch feature/epochs --output ./src/generated

# short flags
npx flow-generate -i https://github.com/onflow/flow-core-contracts -b feature/epochs -o ./src/generated

# positional arguments
npx flow-generate https://github.com/onflow/flow-core-contracts ./src/generated -b feature/epochs

# positional arguments, main branch
npx flow-generate https://github.com/onflow/flow-core-contracts ./src/generated

Process Single Folder (recursively)

You can also paste full path to specific folder that you want to process. For example:

npx flow-generate https://github.com/onflow/flow-core-contracts/tree/master/contracts ./src/generated

In this specific case, generator would assume that you want to process contracts folder in the root of repository.

For a slightly more complex case - using Git Flow approach for example - please, specify branch name, so generator can extract folder name properly.

npx flow-generate https://github.com/onflow/flow-core-contracts/tree/feature/epochs/transactions/flowToken ./src/generated -b feature/epochs