Write smart contracts in Go and interact with the blockchain

With the continuous development of blockchain technology, smart contracts have become an important application of blockchain. Smart contracts represent a form of code on the blockchain that can be used to perform specific tasks and are suitable for various scenarios, such as electronic signatures, payments, etc. Smart contracts adopt automatic execution and self-regulation, which can replace intermediaries, reduce contract execution costs, and ensure the legality and fairness of the agreement.

Currently, Ethereum is one of the most popular smart contract platforms. Ethereum provides the Solidity language for writing smart contracts, but the Solidity language is more complex for beginners, so some developers turn to other programming languages, such as the Go language. The Go language is an open source programming language developed by Google that implements high concurrency and distributed systems and is very suitable for the development of blockchain applications. Therefore, this article will introduce how to use Go language to write smart contracts and interact with the blockchain.

First, we need to install some tools to compile and deploy smart contracts. These tools include solc, abigen, geth, etc. Next, let’s look at a simple smart contract code example:

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "math/big"

    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/accounts/abi/bind"
    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethclient"
)

// 定义智能合约
type SimpleToken struct {
    totalSupply *big.Int
    owner       common.Address
}

// 转账函数
func (s *SimpleToken) Transfer(to common.Address, amount *big.Int) error {
    // TODO 实现转账逻辑
    return nil
}

func main() {
    // 连接以太坊节点
    client, err := ethclient.Dial("https://mainnet.infura.io")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // 初始化智能合约
    tokenAddress := common.HexToAddress("0x...")
    token, err := NewSimpleToken(tokenAddress, client)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // 调用智能合约函数
    auth := bind.NewKeyedTransactor(common.HexToAddress("0x..."))
    tx, err := token.Transfer(auth, common.HexToAddress("0x..."), big.NewInt(10))
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Printf("Transaction hash: %v
", tx.Hash())
}

The above code defines a simple smart contract, which includes a transfer function and a total supply. The smart contract also defines a main function, which is used to connect to the Ethereum node and call the smart contract function.

In the code, we use the go-ethereum library to interact with Ethereum. First, we use ethclient.Dial to connect to the Ethereum node. We then create a smart contract object by passing the smart contract address and connection to the NewSimpleToken function. Finally, we use the Transfer function of the smart contract object to transfer the specified amount of tokens to the specified address.

Note: Before using the transfer function, you need to create an authorization object through NewKeyedTransactor, which includes the sending address and private key of the transfer.

In order to compile and deploy smart contracts, we need to use the Solidity compiler and abigen tool. We can install them using the following command:

// 安装 Solidity 编译器
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install solc

// 安装 abigen 工具
go get -u github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/
make abigen

Next, we need to write the Solidity code for the smart contract, compile it into a binary format, and generate the Go language binding code. The following is a simple Solidity code example:

pragma solidity ^0.5.0;

contract SimpleToken {
    uint256 totalSupply;
    address owner;

    constructor() public {
        totalSupply = 1000000;
        owner = msg.sender;
    }

    function transfer(address to, uint256 amount) public {
        // TODO 实现转账逻辑
    }
}

This code defines a smart contract called SimpleToken, which contains a total supply and an owner address. In the constructor, we initialize the total supply and owner address. In the transfer function, we use TODO placeholders to implement the transfer logic later.

In order to compile the Solidity code into a smart contract, we can use the following command:

solc --abi SimpleToken.sol -o build/
solc --bin SimpleToken.sol -o build/

This will generate abi and bin files respectively. Next, we need to use the abigen tool to generate Go language binding code. We can use the following command:

abigen --sol SimpleToken.sol --pkg main --out SimpleToken.go --abi build/SimpleToken.abi --bin build/SimpleToken.bin

This will generate a file named SimpleToken.go, which contains the Go language binding code for the smart contract.

Finally, we can use the go run command to run our smart contract code:

go run main.go SimpleToken.go

In short, writing smart contracts in Go language can make the contract code easier to understand, maintain and extend. At the same time, the concurrency and distributed characteristics of the Go language also make it an ideal choice for blockchain application development. In the next step, you can learn more on this basis and develop more complex and practical smart contract applications.

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