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POST /v2/contracts/contract-by-id

POST
/
v2
/
contracts
/
contract-by-id
Try it
cURL
Python
JavaScript
PHP
Go
Java
Ruby
curl --request POST \
  --url 'http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}'
import json
import requests

url = "http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id"
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
payload = json.loads(r'''{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}''')
response = requests.request(
    "POST", url, headers=headers, json=payload
)

print(response.text)
const response = await fetch('http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
},
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}),
});

console.log(await response.text());
<?php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => <<<'JSON'
{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
JSON,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
        "Content-Type: application/json"
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
echo $response;
package main

import (
  "bytes"
  "fmt"
  "io"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id", bytes.NewBufferString(`{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}`))
  req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
  response, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
  defer response.Body.Close()
  body, _ := io.ReadAll(response.Body)
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id"))
    .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("""
{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
"""))
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(
    request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI('http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer <token>'
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = <<~JSON
{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
JSON
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end
puts response.body
200
400
default
{
  "createdEvent": {
    "offset": 123,
    "nodeId": 123,
    "contractId": "<string>",
    "templateId": "<string>",
    "contractKey": "<string>",
    "contractKeyHash": "<string>",
    "createArgument": "<string>",
    "createdEventBlob": "<string>",
    "interfaceViews": [
      {
        "interfaceId": "<string>",
        "viewStatus": {
          "code": 123,
          "message": "<string>",
          "details": [
            {
              "typeUrl": "<string>",
              "value": "<string>",
              "unknownFields": "<object>",
              "valueDecoded": "<string>"
            }
          ]
        },
        "viewValue": "<string>",
        "implementationPackageId": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "witnessParties": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "signatories": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "observers": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "createdAt": "<string>",
    "packageName": "<string>",
    "representativePackageId": "<string>",
    "acsDelta": false
  }
}
<string>
{
  "code": "<string>",
  "cause": "<string>",
  "correlationId": "<string>",
  "traceId": "<string>",
  "context": {},
  "resources": [
    [
      "<string>"
    ]
  ],
  "errorCategory": 123,
  "grpcCodeValue": 123,
  "retryInfo": "<string>",
  "definiteAnswer": false
}

Looking up contract data by contract ID. This endpoint is experimental / alpha, therefore no backwards compatibility is guaranteed. This endpoint must not be used to look up contracts which entered the participant via party replication or repair service.

cURL
Python
JavaScript
PHP
Go
Java
Ruby
curl --request POST \
  --url 'http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}'
import json
import requests

url = "http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id"
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
payload = json.loads(r'''{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}''')
response = requests.request(
    "POST", url, headers=headers, json=payload
)

print(response.text)
const response = await fetch('http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
},
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}),
});

console.log(await response.text());
<?php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => <<<'JSON'
{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
JSON,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
        "Content-Type: application/json"
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
echo $response;
package main

import (
  "bytes"
  "fmt"
  "io"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id", bytes.NewBufferString(`{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}`))
  req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
  response, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
  defer response.Body.Close()
  body, _ := io.ReadAll(response.Body)
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id"))
    .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("""
{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
"""))
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(
    request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI('http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer <token>'
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = <<~JSON
{
  "contractId": "<string>",
  "queryingParties": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
JSON
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end
puts response.body
200
400
default
{
  "createdEvent": {
    "offset": 123,
    "nodeId": 123,
    "contractId": "<string>",
    "templateId": "<string>",
    "contractKey": "<string>",
    "contractKeyHash": "<string>",
    "createArgument": "<string>",
    "createdEventBlob": "<string>",
    "interfaceViews": [
      {
        "interfaceId": "<string>",
        "viewStatus": {
          "code": 123,
          "message": "<string>",
          "details": [
            {
              "typeUrl": "<string>",
              "value": "<string>",
              "unknownFields": "<object>",
              "valueDecoded": "<string>"
            }
          ]
        },
        "viewValue": "<string>",
        "implementationPackageId": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "witnessParties": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "signatories": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "observers": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "createdAt": "<string>",
    "packageName": "<string>",
    "representativePackageId": "<string>",
    "acsDelta": false
  }
}
<string>
{
  "code": "<string>",
  "cause": "<string>",
  "correlationId": "<string>",
  "traceId": "<string>",
  "context": {},
  "resources": [
    [
      "<string>"
    ]
  ],
  "errorCategory": 123,
  "grpcCodeValue": 123,
  "retryInfo": "<string>",
  "definiteAnswer": false
}

Authorizations

httpAuth

Authorization
string
required
HTTP bearer authentication. Send the token as Authorization: Bearer &lt;token&gt;. Ledger API standard JWT token

apiKeyAuth

Sec-WebSocket-Protocol
string
required
API key authentication in the header. Ledger API standard JWT token (websocket)

Body

application/json
contractId
string
required
The ID of the contract. Must be a valid LedgerString (as described in value.proto). Required
queryingParties
string[]
The list of querying parties The stakeholders of the referenced contract must have an intersection with any of these parties to return the result. If no querying_parties specified, all possible contracts could be returned. Optional: can be empty

Responses

200

application/json
createdEvent
CreatedEvent
required
Records that a contract has been created, and choices may now be exercised on it.

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offset
integer (int64)
required
The offset of origin, which has contextual meaning, please see description at messages that include a CreatedEvent. Offsets are managed by the participant nodes. Transactions can thus NOT be assumed to have the same offsets on different participant nodes. It is a valid absolute offset (positive integer) Required
nodeId
integer (int32)
required
The position of this event in the originating transaction or reassignment. The origin has contextual meaning, please see description at messages that include a CreatedEvent. Node IDs are not necessarily equal across participants, as these may see different projections/parts of transactions. Must be valid node ID (non-negative integer) Required
contractId
string
required
The ID of the created contract. Must be a valid LedgerString (as described in value.proto). Required
templateId
string
required
The template of the created contract. The identifier uses the package-id reference format. Required
contractKey
object
The key of the created contract. This will be set if and only if template_id defines a contract key. Optional
contractKeyHash
string
The hash of contract_key. This will be set if and only if template_id defines a contract key. Optional: can be empty
createArgument
object
required
The arguments that have been used to create the contract. Required
createdEventBlob
string
Opaque representation of contract create event payload intended for forwarding to an API server as a contract disclosed as part of a command submission. Optional: can be empty
interfaceViews
JsInterfaceView[]
Interface views specified in the transaction filter. Includes an InterfaceView for each interface for which there is a InterfaceFilter with - its party in the witness_parties of this event, - and which is implemented by the template of this event, - and which has include_interface_view set. Optional: can be empty

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interfaceId
string
required
The interface implemented by the matched event. The identifier uses the package-id reference format. Required
viewStatus
JsStatus
required
Whether the view was successfully computed, and if not, the reason for the error. The error is reported using the same rules for error codes and messages as the errors returned for API requests. Required

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code
integer (int32)
required
message
string
required
details
ProtoAny[]

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typeUrl
string
required
value
string
required
unknownFields
UnknownFieldSet
required

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fields
Map_Int_Field
required
valueDecoded
string
viewValue
object
The value of the interface’s view method on this event. Set if it was requested in the InterfaceFilter and it could be successfully computed. Optional
implementationPackageId
string
The package defining the interface implementation used to compute the view. Can be different from the package that was used to create the contract itself, as the contract arguments can be upgraded or downgraded using smart-contract upgrading as part of computing the interface view. Populated if the view computation is successful, otherwise empty. Optional
witnessParties
string[]
required
The parties that are notified of this event. When a CreatedEvent is returned as part of a transaction tree or ledger-effects transaction, this will include all the parties specified in the TransactionFilter that are witnesses of the event (the stakeholders of the contract and all informees of all the ancestors of this create action that this participant knows about). If served as part of a ACS delta transaction those will be limited to all parties specified in the TransactionFilter that are stakeholders of the contract (i.e. either signatories or observers). If the CreatedEvent is returned as part of an AssignedEvent, ActiveContract or IncompleteUnassigned (so the event is related to an assignment or unassignment): this will include all parties of the TransactionFilter that are stakeholders of the contract. The behavior of reading create events visible to parties not hosted on the participant node serving the Ledger API is undefined. Concretely, there is neither a guarantee that the participant node will serve all their create events on the ACS stream, nor is there a guarantee that matching archive events are delivered for such create events. For most clients this is not a problem, as they only read events for parties that are hosted on the participant node. If you need to read events for parties that may not be hosted at all times on the participant node, subscribe to the TopologyEvents for that party by setting a corresponding UpdateFormat. Using these events, query the ACS as-of an offset where the party is hosted on the participant node, and ignore create events at offsets where the party is not hosted on the participant node. Required: must be non-empty
signatories
string[]
required
The signatories for this contract as specified by the template. Required: must be non-empty
observers
string[]
The observers for this contract as specified explicitly by the template or implicitly as choice controllers. This field never contains parties that are signatories. Optional: can be empty
createdAt
string
required
Ledger effective time of the transaction that created the contract. Required
packageName
string
required
The package name of the created contract. Required
representativePackageId
string
required
A package-id present in the participant package store that typechecks the contract’s argument. This may differ from the package-id of the template used to create the contract. For contracts created before Canton 3.4, this field matches the contract’s creation package-id. NOTE: Experimental, server internal concept, not for client consumption. Subject to change without notice. Required
acsDelta
boolean
required
Whether this event would be part of respective ACS_DELTA shaped stream, and should therefore considered when tracking contract activeness on the client-side. Required

400

Invalid value, Invalid value for: body
text/plain
value
string
required

default

application/json
code
string
required
cause
string
required
correlationId
string
traceId
string
context
Map_String
required
resources
Tuple2_String_String[]
errorCategory
integer (int32)
required
grpcCodeValue
integer (int32)
retryInfo
string
definiteAnswer
boolean

History

Updated3.5

The POST /v2/contracts/contract-by-id operation changed in this snapshot.