ligo/gitlab-pages/docs/advanced/entrypoints-contracts.md

id	title
entrypoints-contracts	Entrypoints, Contracts

Entrypoints

Each LIGO smart contract is essentially a single function, that has the following (pseudo) type signature:

(const parameter: my_type, const store: my_store_type): (list(operation), my_store_type)

This means that every smart contract needs at least one entrypoint function, here's an example:

💡 The contract below literally does nothing

type parameter is unit;
type store is unit;
function main(const parameter: parameter; const store: store): (list(operation) * store) is
    block { skip } with ((nil : list(operation)), store)

Each entrypoint function receives two arguments:

• parameter - this is the parameter received in the invocation operation
• storage - this is the current (real) on-chain storage value

Storage can only be modified by running the smart contract entrypoint, which is responsible for returning a list of operations, and a new storage at the end of it's execution.

Built-in contract variables

Each LIGO smart contract deployed on the Tezos blockchain, has access to certain built-in variables/constants that can be used to determine a range of useful things. In this section you'll find how those built-ins can be utilized.

Accepting/declining money in a smart contract

This example shows how amount and failwith can be used to decline a transaction that sends more tez than 0mutez.

function main (const p : unit ; const s : unit) : (list(operation) * unit) is
  block {
      if amount > 0mutez then failwith("This contract does not accept tez") else skip
  } with ((nil : list(operation)), unit);

Access control locking

This example shows how sender or source can be used to deny access to an entrypoint.

const owner: address = ("tz1KqTpEZ7Yob7QbPE4Hy4Wo8fHG8LhKxZSx": address);
function main (const p : unit ; const s : unit) : (list(operation) * unit) is
  block {
      if source =/= owner then failwith("This address can't call the contract") else skip
  } with ((nil : list(operation)), unit);

Cross contract calls

This example shows how a contract can invoke another contract by emiting a transaction operation at the end of an entrypoint.

The same technique can be used to transfer tez to an implicit account (tz1, ...), all you have to do is use unit instead of a parameter for a smart contract.

In our case, we have a counter.ligo contract that accepts a parameter of type action, and we have a proxy.ligo contract that accepts the same parameter type, and forwards the call to the deployed counter contract.

// counter.types.ligo
type action is
| Increment of int
| Decrement of int
| Reset of unit

// counter.ligo
type action is
| Increment of int
| Decrement of int
| Reset of unit

// proxy.ligo
#include "counter.types.ligo"

const address: address = ("KT19wgxcuXG9VH4Af5Tpm1vqEKdaMFpznXT3": address);

function proxy(const param: action; const store: unit): (list(operation) * unit)
    is block {
        const counter: contract(action) = get_contract(address);
        // re-use the param passed to the proxy in the subsequent transaction
        // e.g.:
        // const mockParam: action = Increment(5);
        const op: operation = transaction(param, 0mutez, counter);
        const opList: list(operation) = list op; end;
    } with (opList, store)