Allow the --abi flag to be given - to indicate that it should read the
ABI information from standard input. It expects to read the solc output
with the --combined-json flag providing bin, abi, userdoc, devdoc, and
metadata, and works very similarly to the internal invocation of solc,
except it allows external invocation of solc.
This facilitates integration with more complex solc invocations, such
as invocations that require path remapping or --allow-paths tweaks.
Simple usage example:
solc --combined-json bin,abi,userdoc,devdoc,metadata *.sol | abigen --abi -
Support for legacy version 0.9.x is gone. The compiler version is no
longer cached. Compilation results (and the version) are read directly
from stdout using the --combined-json flag. As a workaround for
ethereum/solidity#651, source code is written to a temporary file before
compilation.
Integration of solc in package ethapi and cmd/abigen is now much simpler
because the compiler wrapper is no longer passed around as a pointer.
Fixes#2806, accidentally
Philip Schlump
Antonio Salazar Cardozo
Bas van Kervel
Péter Szilágyi
Felix Lange