Handle type aliases

[ethereumjs]

Handle type aliases

[axic]

Sorry @niran I am not sure exactly which types this is an issue with? Would you mind posting some examples?

[niran]

uint and int are aliases for uint256 and int256. byte is an alias for bytes1.

https://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/types.html

[axic]

@niran those aliases are implemented. Where are you getting an error?

[axic]

@niran apparently byte is a new addition as hence it is not included. It needs to go into the ABI first, but happy to support it after.

[niran]

uint failed for me here if I recall correctly: https://github.com/axic/ethereumjs-abi/blob/master/lib/index.js#L78

It tries to parse the size, but there isn't one.

[axic]

@niran the translation is done earlier: https://github.com/axic/ethereumjs-abi/blob/master/lib/index.js#L178 and https://github.com/axic/ethereumjs-abi/blob/master/lib/index.js#L217

It should be (u)int256 by the time it gets into the single item encoding

[holgerd77]

What's the status of this, is this a bug or was this wrong use of the API?