Flow•16mo ago

Updating resource method pre-conditions

Hey all! 👋 I thought of a possibly silly question that others might also wonder about - does updating a resource method's pre-condition in a contract update also update the pre-conditions within existing instances of that resource. The short answer is yes, but here's how I quickly went about confirming... I set up a contract, PizzaPlace with the following:

pub contract PizzaPlace {
    pub event OrderPlaced(order: String, customer: Address?)
    pub resource Menu {
        pub fun submitOrder(_ order: String): String {
            pre {
                order == "pizza" : "We only serve pizza!"
            }
            emit OrderPlaced(order: order, customer: self.owner?.address)
        }
    }

    pub fun getMenu(): @Menu {
        return <-create Menu()
    }
}

pub contract PizzaPlace {
    pub event OrderPlaced(order: String, customer: Address?)
    pub resource Menu {
        pub fun submitOrder(_ order: String): String {
            pre {
                order == "pizza" : "We only serve pizza!"
            }
            emit OrderPlaced(order: order, customer: self.owner?.address)
        }
    }

    pub fun getMenu(): @Menu {
        return <-create Menu()
    }
}

I then deployed my contract, configured a Menu in account storage, and placed an order. Of course, based on the pre-condition, I could only order "pizza" for a successful transaction. PizzaPlace now also makes sandwiches, so I updated Menu.submitOrder() pre-condition to:

pub fun submitOrder(_ order: String) {
    pre {
        order == "pizza" || order == "sandwich": "We only serve pizza & sandwiches!"
    }
    emit OrderPlaced(order: order, customer: self.owner?.address)
}

pub fun submitOrder(_ order: String) {
    pre {
        order == "pizza" || order == "sandwich": "We only serve pizza & sandwiches!"
    }
    emit OrderPlaced(order: order, customer: self.owner?.address)
}

I then updated the contract. Using the same Menu resource I configured previously, I submitted a transaction with Menu.submitOrder("sandwich") and behold it worked!

Events:
    Index    0
    Type    A.f8d6e0586b0a20c7.PizzaPlace.OrderPlaced
    Tx ID    0210d9b89e549decf944ddfb36034d04890e1671197840bb03f7b56ca90c8edf
    Values
        - order (String): "sandwich"
        - customer (Address?): 0xf8d6e0586b0a20c7

Events:
    Index    0
    Type    A.f8d6e0586b0a20c7.PizzaPlace.OrderPlaced
    Tx ID    0210d9b89e549decf944ddfb36034d04890e1671197840bb03f7b56ca90c8edf
    Values
        - order (String): "sandwich"
        - customer (Address?): 0xf8d6e0586b0a20c7

In hindsight, it makes total sense this would be the case. Hope this simple example helps some of my fellow devs! 😃

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Unknown User•16mo ago

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Giovanni S•16mo ago

Just little snippets of code as I answer my own & others' questions? 🤔 That could be fun!

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Updating resource method pre-conditions