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Is there any documentation available for how to serialize contract call parameters?

I found good documentation for serialization of general operations and took a look at the tzips but neither seems to explain how to create a contract call from scratch without relying on external services for serialization of the parameters. Language for the implementation in this case is C#.

Any help/links is appreciated :-)

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  • This might be helpful: ocamlpro.com/2018/11/15/… they use JSON, but the approach is similar for binary, you just need to use the binary encoding instead.
    – arvidj
    Jun 9, 2020 at 9:02

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There is https://tezos.gitlab.io/whitedoc/micheline.html#binary-serialization which mostly tells to run tezos-codec describe alpha.script.expr binary schema for a complete description of the binary encoding.

More details are given here.

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  • Do I see it correctly that in order to write a general purpose contract call software, I would have to write 1.) Michelson => Micheline compiler and 2.) Micheline => binary encoder? This seems like quite the Hercules task.
    – Felix Laufenberg
    Jun 15, 2020 at 11:01
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    Michelson and Micheline are not two separate languages, Micheline is Michelson's concrete syntax.
    – Raphaël Cauderlier
    Jun 16, 2020 at 18:44
  • Thanks! Any easy way to get the FA2 interface definitions found at tzip-12 in Micheline instead of Michelson? For FA1.2 I found existing transactions from which I could extract the micheline signature.
    – Felix Laufenberg
    Jun 25, 2020 at 11:26
  • Do you mean JSON?
    – Raphaël Cauderlier
    Jun 26, 2020 at 12:04
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    So you want to convert from Micheline to JSON, this can be done using tezos-client convert data ... from Michelson to Json.
    – Raphaël Cauderlier
    Jun 30, 2020 at 22:23

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