Types

Basic Types

Basic types reflect types Script operates on.

  • bool - a boolean value. Can be either true or false. verify and if statements expect an expression returning this type.

  • int - a 32-bit signed integer. Literals of this type can be specified in dec or hex.

    int a = -1234;
    int b = 0xff00i; // notice `i` suffix
    
  • bin - an array of bytes. Literals of this type are specified in hex.

    bin arr = 0x11223344556677889900aabbccddeeff;
    

Domain-Spcecific Types

To increase safety, Spedn introduces meaningful types that help with catching semantic errors at compile time.

Numeric types

These types add meaning to a raw int. They must be explicitly casted from int with a type constructor. They cannot be casted back to int.

  • Time - represents an absolute time.

    Can be expressed as a Unix Timestamp or a Block Height and variously defined.

    Time x = `2018-10-13 21:37:00`; // defined with a time literal
    Time y = TimeStamp(1539466620); // conversion from `int` interpreted as Unix Timestamp
    Time z = TimeStamp(584834);     // conversion from `int` interpreted as Block Height
    
  • TimeSpan - represents a relative time period. Can be expressed as a number of blocks or 512-seconds periods.

    TimeSpan x = 1d 2h 3m 4s; // Time units literal. Be awre that the number will be rounded down to full 512s periods
    TimeSpan y = 10b;         // Blocks literal.
    TimeSpan z = Blocks(10);  // Conversion from `int`
    

Binary types

These types add meaning to a raw bin. They can be implicitly casted to bin. They must be explicitly casted from bin with a type constructor.

  • PubKey - represents a public key.

    PubKey alice = PubKey(0x11223344556677889900aabbccddeeff);
    
  • Sig - represents a tx signature (which can be checked with checkSig).

    Sig alice = Sig(0x11223344556677889900aabbccddeeff);
    verify checkSig(alice, alicePubKey);
    
  • DataSig - represents a data signature (which can be checked with checkDataSig).

    DataSig alice = DataSig(0x11223344556677889900aabbccddee);
    verify checkDataSig(alice, preimageHash, alicePubKey);
    
  • Ripemd160 - represents a result of RIPEMD-160 hash.

    Ripemd160 h = hash160(pubKey);
    
  • Sha1 - represents a result of SHA-1 hash.

    Sha1 x = sha1(secret);
    
  • Sha256 - represents a result of SHA-256 hash.

    Sha256 x = hash256(secret);
    

Special types

These are types that can appear in expressions but you cannot define variables of them.

  • List - can be only created as literals passed to functions that expect them,

    which is currently checkMultiSig only.

    verify checkMultiSig([sig1, sig2], [key1, key1]);
    
  • Verification - almost like bool but the only thing you can do with it is to pass it to verify.

    This is a return type of checkLockTime and checkSequence functions.:

    verify checkSequence(8b);