This part of Apophis is still under development. As part of another library (CosmWasm Pipeline), I will provide an alternative code generator for your smart contract messages that will be integrated with Apophis. CWPipeline is my CLI tool to assist in the development of smart contracts.

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The Problem

The prevailing solution to generating JS/TS code to communicate with your smart contracts is to generate JSON schemas with the cosmwasm-schema crate, then to generate TypeScript code from these schemas, e.g. using json-schema-to-typescript. This is an absolutely awful pipeline as it produces code that cannot properly capture the actual types, as JSON schemas simply cannot express the proper types. It has no awareness of serialized types. It makes no distinction between stringified numbers and serialized byte arrays. It has no idea if a stringified number is a Uint256 or a Decimal, or if a serialized byte array is in hexadecimal or base64 encoding. We are losing type information, and thus need to re-insert it by manually serializing and deserializing data according to our smart contract’s needs.

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The Solution

Apophis already vastly simplifies smart contract messaging. The new solution will, just like cosmwasm-schema, expose a generate_api! macro that generates type declarations using mapped original types in the smart contract rather than serialized types. The de/serialization middleware of Apophis abstracts away the actual serialization, so as a smart contract developer you will rarely need to actually know how to de/serialize your data, e.g. you can pass Coin or bigints directly into your messages. Note that Apophis already handles de/serialization for you. This part is just about generating the type declarations for convenience and better code maintainability.