Contract ABI (v2) and Recursive Length Prefix made easy for the JVM. Everything heavily optimized for maximum throughput (ABI function call encoding up to 500x faster than a popular competitor. One function init plus one encode up to 50x faster (run benchmarks with gradle jmh or run the maven-generated benchmarks jar)).

ABI spec: https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/abi-spec.html

RLP spec: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/RLP

SHA-256 (headlong-5.3.0.jar): 29fe5be827ab7313b45b4341c067c1a2b7e452ae017c53cc6e4e692a99f5dc1d

Usage

ABI codec

Encoding Function Calls

Function f = new Function("baz(uint32,bool)"); // canonicalizes and parses any signature
// or
Function f2 = Function.fromJson("{\"type\":\"function\",\"name\":\"foo\",\"inputs\":[{\"name\":\"complex_nums\",\"type\":\"tuple[]\",\"components\":[{\"name\":\"real\",\"type\":\"decimal\"},{\"name\":\"imaginary\",\"type\":\"decimal\"}]}]}");

Tuple args = new Tuple(69L, true);

// Two equivalent styles:
ByteBuffer one = f.encodeCall(args);
ByteBuffer two = f.encodeCallWithArgs(69L, true);

System.out.println(Function.formatCall(one.array())); // a multi-line hex representation
System.out.println(f.decodeCall((ByteBuffer) two.flip()).equals(args));

Decoding Return Values

Function foo = new Function("foo((fixed[],int8)[1][][5])", "(ufixed,string)");

// decode return type (ufixed,string)
Tuple decoded = foo.decodeReturn(
        FastHex.decode(
                "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000045"
              + "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000040"
              + "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004"
              + "7730307400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
        )
);
        
System.out.println(decoded.equals(new Tuple(new BigDecimal(BigInteger.valueOf(69L), 18), "w00t")));

Function fooTwo = new Function("fooTwo()", "(uint8)");
Integer returned = fooTwo.decodeSingletonReturn(FastHex.decode("00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000FF"));

Creating types directly

BooleanType bool = TypeFactory.create("bool");
IntType uint24 = TypeFactory.create("uint24");

RLP codec

// for an example class Student
public Student(byte[] rlp) {
    Iterator<RLPItem> iter = RLP_STRICT.sequenceIterator(rlp);
    
    this.name = iter.next().asString(UTF_8);
    this.gpa = iter.next().asFloat();
    this.publicKey = iter.next().asBytes();
    this.balance = new BigDecimal(iter.next().asBigInt(), iter.next().asInt());
}

@Override
public Object[] toObjectArray() {
    return new Object[] {
            // instances of byte[]
            Strings.decode(name, UTF_8),
            FloatingPoint.toBytes(gpa),
            publicKey,
            balance.unscaledValue().toByteArray(),
            Integers.toBytes(balance.scale())
            // include an Object[] or Iterable and its elements will be encoded as an RLP list (which may include other lists)
    };
}

@Override
public byte[] toRLP() {
    return RLPEncoder.encodeSequentially(toObjectArray());
}

Build

Now available in Maven Central Repository.

Or build locally:

Clone the project and install to your local maven repository using gradle publishToMavenLocal or mvn install, then declare it as a dependency:

implementation 'com.esaulpaugh:headlong:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT'

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.esaulpaugh</groupId>
    <artifactId>headlong</artifactId>
    <version>5.3.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Alternatively:

• Run gradle build or gradle jar which output to build/libs
• Use mvn package which outputs to target
• Execute ant all build-jar which outputs to build/lib
• Add headlong as a project dependency

Command line interface

https://github.com/esaulpaugh/headlong-cli

Demo app

https://github.com/esaulpaugh/headlong-android

Misc

Also includes optimized implementations of:

• EIP-778 Ethereum Node Records
• hexadecimal
• Keccak

headlong depends on gson v2.8.7. Test suite should take less than one minute to run. Test packages require junit. Jar size is ~116 KiB. Java 8+.

See the wiki for more, such as TupleTypes, packed encoding (and decoding), and RLP Object Notation: https://github.com/esaulpaugh/headlong/wiki

Licensed under Apache 2.0 terms