AssemblyScript API
Note: if you created a subgraph prior to
graph-cli
/graph-ts
version0.22.0
, you're using an older version of AssemblyScript, we recommend taking a look at theMigration Guide
This page documents what built-in APIs can be used when writing subgraph mappings. Two kinds of APIs are available out of the box:
the Graph TypeScript library (
graph-ts
) andcode generated from subgraph files by
graph codegen
.
It is also possible to add other libraries as dependencies, as long as they are compatible with AssemblyScript. Since this is the language mappings are written in, the AssemblyScript wiki is a good source for language and standard library features.
Installation
Subgraphs created with graph init
come with preconfigured dependencies. All that is required to install these dependencies is to run one of the following commands:
If the subgraph was created from scratch, one of the following two commands will install the Graph TypeScript library as a dependency:
API Reference
The @graphprotocol/graph-ts
library provides the following APIs:
An
ethereum
API for working with Ethereum smart contracts, events, blocks, transactions, and Ethereum values.A
store
API to load and save entities from and to the Graph Node store.A
log
API to log messages to the Graph Node output and the Graph Explorer.An
ipfs
API to load files from IPFS.A
json
API to parse JSON data.A
crypto
API to use cryptographic functions.Low-level primitives to translate between different type systems such as Ethereum, JSON, GraphQL and AssemblyScript.
Versions
The apiVersion
in the subgraph manifest specifies the mapping API version which is run by Graph Node for a given subgraph. The current mapping API version is 0.0.6.
Version | Release notes |
---|---|
0.0.7 | Added |
0.0.6 | Added |
0.0.5 | AssemblyScript upgraded to version 0.19.10 (this includes breaking changes, please see the |
0.0.4 | Added |
0.0.3 | Added |
0.0.2 | Added |
Built-in Types
Documentation on the base types built into AssemblyScript can be found in the AssemblyScript wiki.
The following additional types are provided by @graphprotocol/graph-ts
.
ByteArray
ByteArray
represents an array of u8
.
Construction
fromI32(x: i32): ByteArray
- Decomposesx
into bytes.fromHexString(hex: string): ByteArray
- Input length must be even. Prefixing with0x
is optional.
Type conversions
toHexString(): string
- Converts to a hex string prefixed with0x
.toString(): string
- Interprets the bytes as a UTF-8 string.toBase58(): string
- Encodes the bytes into a base58 string.toU32(): u32
- Interprets the bytes as a little-endianu32
. Throws in case of overflow.toI32(): i32
- Interprets the byte array as a little-endiani32
. Throws in case of overflow.
Operators
equals(y: ByteArray): bool
– can be written asx == y
.concat(other: ByteArray) : ByteArray
- return a newByteArray
consisting ofthis
directly followed byother
concatI32(other: i32) : ByteArray
- return a newByteArray
consisting ofthis
directly follow by the byte representation ofother
BigDecimal
BigDecimal
is used to represent arbitrary precision decimals.
Construction
constructor(bigInt: BigInt)
– creates aBigDecimal
from anBigInt
.static fromString(s: string): BigDecimal
– parses from a decimal string.
Type conversions
toString(): string
– prints to a decimal string.
Math
plus(y: BigDecimal): BigDecimal
– can be written asx + y
.minus(y: BigDecimal): BigDecimal
– can be written asx - y
.times(y: BigDecimal): BigDecimal
– can be written asx * y
.div(y: BigDecimal): BigDecimal
– can be written asx / y
.equals(y: BigDecimal): bool
– can be written asx == y
.notEqual(y: BigDecimal): bool
– can be written asx != y
.lt(y: BigDecimal): bool
– can be written asx < y
.le(y: BigDecimal): bool
– can be written asx <= y
.gt(y: BigDecimal): bool
– can be written asx > y
.ge(y: BigDecimal): bool
– can be written asx >= y
.neg(): BigDecimal
- can be written as-x
.
BigInt
BigInt
is used to represent big integers. This includes Ethereum values of type uint32
to uint256
and int64
to int256
. Everything below uint32
, such as int32
, uint24
or int8
is represented as i32
.
The BigInt
class has the following API:
Construction
BigInt.fromI32(x: i32): BigInt
– creates aBigInt
from ani32
.BigInt.fromString(s: string): BigInt
– Parses aBigInt
from a string.BigInt.fromUnsignedBytes(x: Bytes): BigInt
– Interpretsbytes
as an unsigned, little-endian integer. If your input is big-endian, call.reverse()
first.BigInt.fromSignedBytes(x: Bytes): BigInt
– Interpretsbytes
as a signed, little-endian integer. If your input is big-endian, call.reverse()
first.Type conversions
x.toHex(): string
– turnsBigInt
into a string of hexadecimal characters.x.toString(): string
– turnsBigInt
into a decimal number string.x.toI32(): i32
– returns theBigInt
as ani32
; fails if it the value does not fit intoi32
. It's a good idea to first checkx.isI32()
.x.toBigDecimal(): BigDecimal
- converts into a decimal with no fractional part.
Math
x.plus(y: BigInt): BigInt
– can be written asx + y
.x.minus(y: BigInt): BigInt
– can be written asx - y
.x.times(y: BigInt): BigInt
– can be written asx * y
.x.div(y: BigInt): BigInt
– can be written asx / y
.x.mod(y: BigInt): BigInt
– can be written asx % y
.x.equals(y: BigInt): bool
– can be written asx == y
.x.notEqual(y: BigInt): bool
– can be written asx != y
.x.lt(y: BigInt): bool
– can be written asx < y
.x.le(y: BigInt): bool
– can be written asx <= y
.x.gt(y: BigInt): bool
– can be written asx > y
.x.ge(y: BigInt): bool
– can be written asx >= y
.x.neg(): BigInt
– can be written as-x
.x.divDecimal(y: BigDecimal): BigDecimal
– divides by a decimal, giving a decimal result.x.isZero(): bool
– Convenience for checking if the number is zero.x.isI32(): bool
– Check if the number fits in ani32
.x.abs(): BigInt
– Absolute value.x.pow(exp: u8): BigInt
– Exponentiation.bitOr(x: BigInt, y: BigInt): BigInt
– can be written asx | y
.bitAnd(x: BigInt, y: BigInt): BigInt
– can be written asx & y
.leftShift(x: BigInt, bits: u8): BigInt
– can be written asx << y
.rightShift(x: BigInt, bits: u8): BigInt
– can be written asx >> y
.
TypedMap
TypedMap
can be used to stored key-value pairs. See this example.
The TypedMap
class has the following API:
new TypedMap<K, V>()
– creates an empty map with keys of typeK
and values of typeT
map.set(key: K, value: V): void
– sets the value ofkey
tovalue
map.getEntry(key: K): TypedMapEntry<K, V> | null
– returns the key-value pair for akey
ornull
if thekey
does not exist in the mapmap.get(key: K): V | null
– returns the value for akey
ornull
if thekey
does not exist in the mapmap.isSet(key: K): bool
– returnstrue
if thekey
exists in the map andfalse
if it does not
Bytes
Bytes
is used to represent arbitrary-length arrays of bytes. This includes Ethereum values of type bytes
, bytes32
etc.
The Bytes
class extends AssemblyScript's Uint8Array and this supports all the Uint8Array
functionality, plus the following new methods:
Construction
fromHexString(hex: string) : Bytes
- Convert the stringhex
which must consist of an even number of hexadecimal digits to aByteArray
. The stringhex
can optionally start with0x
fromI32(i: i32) : Bytes
- Converti
to an array of bytes
Type conversions
b.toHex()
– returns a hexadecimal string representing the bytes in the arrayb.toString()
– converts the bytes in the array to a string of unicode charactersb.toBase58()
– turns an Ethereum Bytes value to base58 encoding (used for IPFS hashes)
Operators
b.concat(other: Bytes) : Bytes
- - return newBytes
consisting ofthis
directly followed byother
b.concatI32(other: i32) : ByteArray
- return newBytes
consisting ofthis
directly follow by the byte representation ofother
Address
Address
extends Bytes
to represent Ethereum address
values.
It adds the following method on top of the Bytes
API:
Address.fromString(s: string): Address
– creates anAddress
from a hexadecimal stringAddress.fromBytes(b: Bytes): Address
– create anAddress
fromb
which must be exactly 20 bytes long. Passing in a value with fewer or more bytes will result in an error
Store API
The store
API allows to load, save and remove entities from and to the Graph Node store.
Entities written to the store map one-to-one to the @entity
types defined in the subgraph's GraphQL schema. To make working with these entities convenient, the graph codegen
command provided by the Graph CLI generates entity classes, which are subclasses of the built-in Entity
type, with property getters and setters for the fields in the schema as well as methods to load and save these entities.
Creating entities
The following is a common pattern for creating entities from Ethereum events.
When a Transfer
event is encountered while processing the chain, it is passed to the handleTransfer
event handler using the generated Transfer
type (aliased to TransferEvent
here to avoid a naming conflict with the entity type). This type allows accessing data such as the event's parent transaction and its parameters.
Each entity must have a unique ID to avoid collisions with other entities. It is fairly common for event parameters to include a unique identifier that can be used. Note: Using the transaction hash as the ID assumes that no other events in the same transaction create entities with this hash as the ID.
Loading entities from the store
If an entity already exists, it can be loaded from the store with the following:
As the entity may not exist in the store yet, the load
method returns a value of type Transfer | null
. It may thus be necessary to check for the null
case before using the value.
Note: Loading entities is only necessary if the changes made in the mapping depend on the previous data of an entity. See the next section for the two ways of updating existing entities.
Updating existing entities
There are two ways to update an existing entity:
Load the entity with e.g.
Transfer.load(id)
, set properties on the entity, then.save()
it back to the store.Simply create the entity with e.g.
new Transfer(id)
, set properties on the entity, then.save()
it to the store. If the entity already exists, the changes are merged into it.
Changing properties is straight forward in most cases, thanks to the generated property setters:
It is also possible to unset properties with one of the following two instructions:
This only works with optional properties, i.e. properties that are declared without a !
in GraphQL. Two examples would be owner: Bytes
or amount: BigInt
.
Updating array properties is a little more involved, as the getting an array from an entity creates a copy of that array. This means array properties have to be set again explicitly after changing the array. The following assumes entity
has a numbers: [BigInt!]!
field.
Removing entities from the store
There is currently no way to remove an entity via the generated types. Instead, removing an entity requires passing the name of the entity type and the entity ID to store.remove
:
Ethereum API
The Ethereum API provides access to smart contracts, public state variables, contract functions, events, transactions, blocks and the encoding/decoding Ethereum data.
Support for Ethereum Types
As with entities, graph codegen
generates classes for all smart contracts and events used in a subgraph. For this, the contract ABIs need to be part of the data source in the subgraph manifest. Typically, the ABI files are stored in an abis/
folder.
With the generated classes, conversions between Ethereum types and the built-in types take place behind the scenes so that subgraph authors do not have to worry about them.
The following example illustrates this. Given a subgraph schema like
and a Transfer(address,address,uint256)
event signature on Ethereum, the from
, to
and amount
values of type address
, address
and uint256
are converted to Address
and BigInt
, allowing them to be passed on to the Bytes!
and BigInt!
properties of the Transfer
entity:
Events and Block/Transaction Data
Ethereum events passed to event handlers, such as the Transfer
event in the previous examples, not only provide access to the event parameters but also to their parent transaction and the block they are part of. The following data can be obtained from event
instances (these classes are a part of the ethereum
module in graph-ts
):
Access to Smart Contract State
The code generated by graph codegen
also includes classes for the smart contracts used in the subgraph. These can be used to access public state variables and call functions of the contract at the current block.
A common pattern is to access the contract from which an event originates. This is achieved with the following code:
As long as the ERC20Contract
on Ethereum has a public read-only function called symbol
, it can be called with .symbol()
. For public state variables a method with the same name is created automatically.
Any other contract that is part of the subgraph can be imported from the generated code and can be bound to a valid address.
Handling Reverted Calls
If the read-only methods of your contract may revert, then you should handle that by calling the generated contract method prefixed with try_
. For example, the Gravity contract exposes the gravatarToOwner
method. This code would be able to handle a revert in that method:
Note that a Graph node connected to a Geth or Infura client may not detect all reverts, if you rely on this we recommend using a Graph node connected to a Parity client.
Encoding/Decoding ABI
Data can be encoded and decoded according to Ethereum's ABI encoding format using the encode
and decode
functions in the ethereum
module.
For more information:
Encoding/decoding Rust library/CLI
More complex example.
Logging API
The log
API allows subgraphs to log information to the Graph Node standard output as well as the Graph Explorer. Messages can be logged using different log levels. A basic format string syntax is provided to compose log messages from argument.
The log
API includes the following functions:
log.debug(fmt: string, args: Array<string>): void
- logs a debug message.log.info(fmt: string, args: Array<string>): void
- logs an informational message.log.warning(fmt: string, args: Array<string>): void
- logs a warning.log.error(fmt: string, args: Array<string>): void
- logs an error message.log.critical(fmt: string, args: Array<string>): void
– logs a critical message and terminates the subgraph.
The log
API takes a format string and an array of string values. It then replaces placeholders with the string values from the array. The first {}
placeholder gets replaced by the first value in the array, the second {}
placeholder gets replaced by the second value and so on.
Logging one or more values
Logging a single value
In the example below, the string value "A" is passed into an array to become['A']
before being logged:
Logging a single entry from an existing array
In the example below, only the first value of the argument array is logged, despite the array containing three values.
Logging multiple entries from an existing array
Each entry in the arguments array requires its own placeholder {}
in the log message string. The below example contains three placeholders {}
in the log message. Because of this, all three values in myArray
are logged.
Logging a specific entry from an existing array
To display a specific value in the array, the indexed value must be provided.
Logging event information
The example below logs the block number, block hash and transaction hash from an event:
IPFS API
Smart contracts occasionally anchor IPFS files on chain. This allows mappings to obtain the IPFS hashes from the contract and read the corresponding files from IPFS. The file data will be returned as Bytes
, which usually requires further processing, e.g. with the json
API documented later on this page.
Given an IPFS hash or path, reading a file from IPFS is done as follows:
Note: ipfs.cat
is not deterministic at the moment. If the file cannot be retrieved over the IPFS network before the request times out, it will return null
. Due to this, it's always worth checking the result for null
. To ensure that files can be retrieved, they have to be pinned to the IPFS node that Graph Node connects to. On the hosted service, this is https://api.thegraph.com/ipfs/. See the IPFS pinning section for more information.
It is also possible to process larger files in a streaming fashion with ipfs.map
. The function expects the hash or path for an IPFS file, the name of a callback, and flags to modify its behavior:
The only flag currently supported is json
, which must be passed to ipfs.map
. With the json
flag, the IPFS file must consist of a series of JSON values, one value per line. The call to ipfs.map
will read each line in the file, deserialize it into a JSONValue
and call the callback for each of them. The callback can then use entity operations to store data from the JSONValue
. Entity changes are stored only when the handler that called ipfs.map
finishes successfully; in the meantime, they are kept in memory, and the size of the file that ipfs.map
can process is therefore limited.
On success, ipfs.map
returns void
. If any invocation of the callback causes an error, the handler that invoked ipfs.map
is aborted, and the subgraph is marked as failed.
Crypto API
The crypto
API makes a cryptographic functions available for use in mappings. Right now, there is only one:
crypto.keccak256(input: ByteArray): ByteArray
JSON API
JSON data can be parsed using the json
API:
json.fromBytes(data: Bytes): JSONValue
– parses JSON data from aBytes
array interpreted as a valid UTF-8 sequencejson.try_fromBytes(data: Bytes): Result<JSONValue, boolean>
– safe version ofjson.fromBytes
, it returns an error variant if the parsing failedjson.fromString(data: string): JSONValue
– parses JSON data from a valid UTF-8String
json.try_fromString(data: string): Result<JSONValue, boolean>
– safe version ofjson.fromString
, it returns an error variant if the parsing failed
The JSONValue
class provides a way to pull values out of an arbitrary JSON document. Since JSON values can be booleans, numbers, arrays and more, JSONValue
comes with a kind
property to check the type of a value:
In addition, there is a method to check if the value is null
:
value.isNull(): boolean
When the type of a value is certain, it can be converted to a built-in type using one of the following methods:
value.toBool(): boolean
value.toI64(): i64
value.toF64(): f64
value.toBigInt(): BigInt
value.toString(): string
value.toArray(): Array<JSONValue>
- (and then convertJSONValue
with one of the 5 methods above)
Type Conversions Reference
Source(s) | Destination | Conversion function |
---|---|---|
Address | Bytes | none |
Address | String | s.toHexString() |
BigDecimal | String | s.toString() |
BigInt | BigDecimal | s.toBigDecimal() |
BigInt | String (hexadecimal) | s.toHexString() or s.toHex() |
BigInt | String (unicode) | s.toString() |
BigInt | i32 | s.toI32() |
Boolean | Boolean | none |
Bytes (signed) | BigInt | BigInt.fromSignedBytes(s) |
Bytes (unsigned) | BigInt | BigInt.fromUnsignedBytes(s) |
Bytes | String (hexadecimal) | s.toHexString() or s.toHex() |
Bytes | String (unicode) | s.toString() |
Bytes | String (base58) | s.toBase58() |
Bytes | i32 | s.toI32() |
Bytes | u32 | s.toU32() |
Bytes | JSON | json.fromBytes(s) |
int8 | i32 | none |
int32 | i32 | none |
int32 | BigInt | BigInt.fromI32(s) |
uint24 | i32 | none |
int64 - int256 | BigInt | none |
uint32 - uint256 | BigInt | none |
JSON | boolean | s.toBool() |
JSON | i64 | s.toI64() |
JSON | u64 | s.toU64() |
JSON | f64 | s.toF64() |
JSON | BigInt | s.toBigInt() |
JSON | string | s.toString() |
JSON | Array | s.toArray() |
JSON | Object | s.toObject() |
String | Address | Address.fromString(s) |
String | BigInt | BigInt.fromString(s) |
String | BigDecimal | BigDecimal.fromString(s) |
String (hexadecimal) | Bytes | ByteArray.fromHexString(s) |
String (UTF-8) | Bytes | ByteArray.fromUTF8(s) |
Data Source Metadata
You can inspect the contract address, network and context of the data source that invoked the handler through the dataSource
namespace:
dataSource.address(): Address
dataSource.network(): string
dataSource.context(): DataSourceContext
Entity and DataSourceContext
The base Entity
class and the child DataSourceContext
class have helpers to dynamically set and get fields:
setString(key: string, value: string): void
setI32(key: string, value: i32): void
setBigInt(key: string, value: BigInt): void
setBytes(key: string, value: Bytes): void
setBoolean(key: string, value: bool): void
setBigDecimal(key, value: BigDecimal): void
getString(key: string): string
getI32(key: string): i32
getBigInt(key: string): BigInt
getBytes(key: string): Bytes
getBoolean(key: string): boolean
getBigDecimal(key: string): BigDecimal
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