Migration Guide¶

Migrationg from v0.3 to v0.3.1¶

Javascript SDK in this release has been decoupled into several smaller components. The Compiler stays in SDK library which moved to @spedn/sdk. However, you won’t need it anymore if you just want to use already compiled contracts. In that case, install RTS (Runtime System) library with backend of choice:

use @spedn/rts-bchjs if you want to build the app on top of BCH-JS.
use @spedn/rts-bitbox if you want to build the app on top of BITBOX-SDK.

To use RTS, import apropriate adapter:

import { BchjsRts } from "@spedn/rts-bchjs";
import BCHJS from "@chris.troutner/bch-js";

const rts = new BchjsRts("mainnet")
const testRts = new BchjsRts("testnet", new BCHJS({ restURL: "https://tapi.fullstack.cash/v3/" }));

To allow RTS to work without compiler, the Portable format has been introduced. When using the CLI, you can request the compiler to output it with -f portable switch. When using the Spedn service from SDK, this format will be returned by default. To turn this JSON into contract classes as before, use rts.load(portable).

const mod = await using(new Spedn(), async compiler => await compiler.compileFile("./BlindEscrow.spedn"));
fs.writeFileSync("./blind_escrow.json", JSON.stringify(mod));
// ...
const { BlindEscrow } = rts.load(JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("./blind_escrow.json");

You’ll also need RTS to create TxBuilder:

import { TxBuilder } from "@spedn/rts";

const builder = new TxBuilder(rts);

Static factory methods in P2PKH class can now be found in P2PKHFactory, that requires RTS:

import { P2PKHFactory } from "@spedn/rts";

const factory = new P2PKHFactory(rts);
const addr = factory.fromKeyPair(key);

Migrating from v0.1 to v0.2¶

There are several syntax changes that might cause your contract compiled for v0.1 version of Spedn doesn’t compile anymore. Here’s how to fix it:

The bin type has been replced by [byte]. Just replace all occurences. This will be good enough but consider being more strict by providing the exact size of the byte array, like [byte;5].
Tuple destructuring has a new syntax. Instead of bin [a, b], use ([byte] a, [byte] b). As before, consider being more strict, ex. ([byte;4] a, [byte;28] b).
With the November 2019 BCH protcol upgrade, OP_CHECKMULTISIG started to support Schnorr signatures but using this requires providing a checkbits argument instead of null dummy. Spedn 0.2 supports this mode exclusively so you’ll have to add a checkbits argument.

Code:
```
challenge(Sig a, Sig b) {
    verify checkMultiSig([a, b], [k1, k2, k3]);
}
```
becomes:
```
challenge([bit;3] checkbits, Sig a, Sig b) {
    verify checkMultiSig(checkbits, [a, b], [k1, k2, k3]);
}
```
A single code file can now contain multiple contracts therefore the compiler in Spedn TypeScript SDK returns a new data structure called module instead of a single contract template. Instead of const MyContract = await compiler.compileFile("./MyContract.spedn"); use const { MyContract } = await compiler.compileFile("./MyContract.spedn");.