accounts/abi/bind/v2: improvement on the previous commit: remove all publicly-exported member methods from v2 BoundContract. Most of these are only needed to implement the contract interaction methods in accounts/abi/bind/v2/lib.go . Add 'Transact' method to the contract interaction API.

accounts/abi/abigen/source2.go.tpl

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ var (
 
 	// Instance creates a wrapper for a deployed contract instance at the given address.
 	// Use this to create the instance object passed to abigen v2 library functions Call, Transact, etc.
-	func (c *{{.Type}}) Instance(backend bind.ContractBackend, addr common.Address) *bind.BoundContract {
+	func (c *{{.Type}}) Instance(backend bind.ContractBackend, addr common.Address) bind.BoundContract {
 		 return bind.NewContractInstance(backend, addr, c.abi)
 	}
 

accounts/abi/bind/v2/base.go

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package bind
 import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
+	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/event"
 	"math/big"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
@@ -121,21 +122,34 @@ func (m *MetaData) ParseABI() (*abi.ABI, error) {
 	return m.parsedABI, nil
 }
 
-// BoundContract is the base wrapper object that reflects a contract on the
+// BoundContract represents a contract deployed on-chain.  It does not export any methods, and is used in the low-level
-// Ethereum network. It contains a collection of methods that are used by the
+// contract interaction API methods provided in the v2 package.
-// higher level contract bindings to operate.
+type BoundContract interface {
-type BoundContract struct {
+	filterLogs(opts *FilterOpts, name string, query ...[]any) (chan types.Log, event.Subscription, error)
-	address common.Address // Deployment address of the contract on the Ethereum blockchain
+	watchLogs(opts *WatchOpts, name string, query ...[]any) (chan types.Log, event.Subscription, error)
-	abi     abi.ABI        // Reflect based ABI to access the correct Ethereum methods
+	rawCreationTransact(opts *TransactOpts, calldata []byte) (*types.Transaction, error)
-	backend ContractBackend
+	call(opts *CallOpts, input []byte) ([]byte, error)
+	transact(opts *TransactOpts, contract *common.Address, input []byte) (*types.Transaction, error)
+	addr() common.Address
 }
 
-// NewBoundContract creates a low level contract interface through which calls
+// NewBoundContract creates a new BoundContract instance.
-// and transactions may be made through.
+func NewBoundContract(backend ContractBackend, address common.Address, abi abi.ABI) BoundContract {
-func NewBoundContract(backend ContractBackend, address common.Address, abi abi.ABI) *BoundContract {
+	return NewBoundContractV1(address, abi, backend, backend, backend)
-	return &BoundContract{
-		address,
-		abi,
-		backend,
 }
+
+func (c *BoundContractV1) filterLogs(opts *FilterOpts, name string, query ...[]any) (chan types.Log, event.Subscription, error) {
+	return c.FilterLogs(opts, name, query...)
+}
+
+func (c *BoundContractV1) watchLogs(opts *WatchOpts, name string, query ...[]any) (chan types.Log, event.Subscription, error) {
+	return c.WatchLogs(opts, name, query...)
+}
+
+func (c *BoundContractV1) rawCreationTransact(opts *TransactOpts, calldata []byte) (*types.Transaction, error) {
+	return c.RawCreationTransact(opts, calldata)
+}
+
+func (c *BoundContractV1) addr() common.Address {
+	return c.address
 }

accounts/abi/bind/v2/boundcontractv1.go

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ func (c *BoundContractV1) RawTransact(opts *TransactOpts, calldata []byte) (*typ
 	return c.transact(opts, &c.address, calldata)
 }
 
-// RawTransact initiates a contract-creation transaction with the given raw calldata as the input.
+// RawCreationTransact initiates a contract-creation transaction with the given raw calldata as the input.
 func (c *BoundContractV1) RawCreationTransact(opts *TransactOpts, calldata []byte) (*types.Transaction, error) {
 	return c.transact(opts, nil, calldata)
 }

accounts/abi/bind/v2/dep_tree.go

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ type DeploymentResult struct {
 }
 
 // DeployFn deploys a contract given a deployer and optional input.  It returns
-// the address and a pending transaction, or an error if the deployment failed.
+// the address of the deployed contract and the deployment transaction, or an error if the deployment failed.
 type DeployFn func(input, deployer []byte) (common.Address, *types.Transaction, error)
 
 // depTreeDeployer is responsible for taking a dependency, deploying-and-linking its components in the proper

accounts/abi/bind/v2/lib.go

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // TODO: remove this and use NewBoundContract directly
-func NewContractInstance(backend ContractBackend, addr common.Address, abi abi.ABI) *BoundContract {
+func NewContractInstance(backend ContractBackend, addr common.Address, abi abi.ABI) BoundContract {
 	return NewBoundContract(backend, addr, abi)
 }
 
@@ -38,10 +38,9 @@ type ContractEvent interface {
 }
 
 // FilterEvents returns an EventIterator instance for filtering historical events based on the event id and a block range.
-func FilterEvents[Ev ContractEvent](c *BoundContract, opts *FilterOpts, unpack func(*types.Log) (*Ev, error), topics ...[]any) (*EventIterator[Ev], error) {
+func FilterEvents[Ev ContractEvent](c BoundContract, opts *FilterOpts, unpack func(*types.Log) (*Ev, error), topics ...[]any) (*EventIterator[Ev], error) {
 	var e Ev
-	v1Instance := BoundContractV1{c.address, c.abi, c.backend, c.backend, c.backend}
+	logs, sub, err := c.filterLogs(opts, e.ContractEventName(), topics...)
-	logs, sub, err := v1Instance.FilterLogs(opts, e.ContractEventName(), topics...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -52,10 +51,9 @@ func FilterEvents[Ev ContractEvent](c *BoundContract, opts *FilterOpts, unpack f
 // contract to be intercepted, unpacked, and forwarded to sink.  If
 // unpack returns an error, the returned subscription is closed with the
 // error.
-func WatchEvents[Ev ContractEvent](c *BoundContract, opts *WatchOpts, unpack func(*types.Log) (*Ev, error), sink chan<- *Ev, topics ...[]any) (event.Subscription, error) {
+func WatchEvents[Ev ContractEvent](c BoundContract, opts *WatchOpts, unpack func(*types.Log) (*Ev, error), sink chan<- *Ev, topics ...[]any) (event.Subscription, error) {
 	var e Ev
-	v1Instance := BoundContractV1{c.address, c.abi, c.backend, c.backend, c.backend}
+	logs, sub, err := c.watchLogs(opts, e.ContractEventName(), topics...)
-	logs, sub, err := v1Instance.WatchLogs(opts, e.ContractEventName(), topics...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -162,10 +160,9 @@ func (it *EventIterator[T]) Close() error {
 //
 // To call a function that doesn't return any output, pass nil as the unpack function.
 // This can be useful if you just want to check that the function doesn't revert.
-func Call[T any](c *BoundContract, opts *CallOpts, packedInput []byte, unpack func([]byte) (T, error)) (T, error) {
+func Call[T any](c BoundContract, opts *CallOpts, packedInput []byte, unpack func([]byte) (T, error)) (T, error) {
 	var defaultResult T
-	v1Instance := BoundContractV1{c.address, c.abi, c.backend, c.backend, c.backend}
+	packedOutput, err := c.call(opts, packedInput)
-	packedOutput, err := v1Instance.CallRaw(opts, packedInput)
 	if err != nil {
 		return defaultResult, err
 	}
@@ -182,11 +179,15 @@ func Call[T any](c *BoundContract, opts *CallOpts, packedInput []byte, unpack fu
 	return res, err
 }
 
+// Transact initiates a transaction with the given raw calldata as the input.
+func Transact(c BoundContract, opt *TransactOpts, packedInput []byte) (*types.Transaction, error) {
+	addr := c.addr()
+	return c.transact(opt, &addr, packedInput)
+}
+
 // DeployContractRaw deploys a contract onto the Ethereum blockchain and binds the
 // deployment address with a Go wrapper.  It expects its parameters to be abi-encoded
 // bytes.
-//
-// TODO: remove address return?  we can calculate it from the returned tx
 func DeployContractRaw(opts *TransactOpts, bytecode []byte, backend ContractBackend, packedParams []byte) (common.Address, *types.Transaction, error) {
 	c := NewBoundContractV1(common.Address{}, abi.ABI{}, backend, backend, backend)
 	tx, err := c.RawCreationTransact(opts, append(bytecode, packedParams...))
@@ -196,10 +197,3 @@ func DeployContractRaw(opts *TransactOpts, bytecode []byte, backend ContractBack
 	address := crypto.CreateAddress(opts.From, tx.Nonce())
 	return address, tx, nil
 }
-
-// RawTransact initiates a transaction with the given raw calldata as the input.
-// It's usually used to initiate transactions for invoking **Fallback** function.
-func (c *BoundContract) RawTransact(opts *TransactOpts, calldata []byte) (*types.Transaction, error) {
-	v1Instance := BoundContractV1{c.address, c.abi, c.backend, c.backend, c.backend}
-	return v1Instance.RawTransact(opts, calldata)
-}

accounts/abi/bind/v2/lib_test.go

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ func TestEvents(t *testing.T) {
 	defer sub2.Unsubscribe()
 
 	packedInput := c.PackEmitMulti()
-	tx, err := instance.RawTransact(txAuth, packedInput)
+	tx, err := bind.Transact(instance, txAuth, packedInput)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to send transaction: %v", err)
 	}