Draft for an IC Canisters Library

[kentosugama]

Just seeing what this would look like before (potentially) creating a separate repo and a library for these definitions.

Some considerations:

• To ensure backwards compatibility, it might be good to have these in a separate library from base (that could be published on mops) that would not have the same guarantee
• Should we also provide wrappers to make it easier to make these calls?
• These bindings are generated using didc

[chenyan-dfinity]

You may be using an out-dated didc. The latest one converts vec nat8 to Blob.

Another option is that:

import service "ic:canister_id"

automatically fetches the did file from metadata and generate the Motoko binding in the dfx build process. Then there is no need to have a library like this.

[ggreif]

You may be using an out-dated didc. The latest one converts vec nat8 to Blob.

Another option is that:

import service "ic:canister_id"

automatically fetches the did file from metadata and generate the Motoko binding in the dfx build process. Then there is no need to have a library like this.

What about the management canister? I doubt you can fetch it this way.

[nomeata]

What about the management canister? I doubt you can fetch it this way.

Maybe it should :-)

[kentosugama]

Oh! I didn't know about that feature. Yes maybe this library is not needed then.

[kentosugama]

dfinity/sdk#3329

Working on having this in dfx.

EDIT: Done