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@@ -200,15 +200,27 @@ Input Description
"MyLib": "0x123123..."
}
}
- // The following can be used to select desired outputs.
- // If this field is omitted, then the compiler loads and does type checking, but will not generate any outputs apart from errors.
- // The first level key is the file name and the second is the contract name, where empty contract name refers to the file itself,
- // while the star refers to all of the contracts.
+ // The following can be used to select desired outputs based
+ // on file and contract names.
+ // If this field is omitted, then the compiler loads and does type checking,
+ // but will not generate any outputs apart from errors.
+ // The first level key is the file name and the second level key is the contract name.
+ // An empty contract name is used for outputs that are not tied to a contract
+ // but to the whole source file like the AST.
+ // A star as contract name refers to all contracts in the file.
+ // Similarly, a star as a file name matches all files.
+ // To select all outputs the compiler can possibly generate, use
+ // "outputSelection: { "*": { "*": [ "*" ], "": [ "*" ] } }"
+ // but note that this might slow down the compilation process needlessly.
//
// The available output types are as follows:
- // abi - ABI
+ //
+ // File level (needs empty string as contract name):
// ast - AST of all source files
// legacyAST - legacy AST of all source files
+ //
+ // Contract level (needs the contract name or "*"):
+ // abi - ABI
// devdoc - Developer documentation (natspec)
// userdoc - User documentation (natspec)
// metadata - Metadata
@@ -281,7 +293,7 @@ Output Description
// This contains the file-level outputs. In can be limited/filtered by the outputSelection settings.
sources: {
"sourceFile.sol": {
- // Identifier (used in source maps)
+ // Identifier of the source (used in source maps)
id: 1,
// The AST object
ast: {},