Struct RawContract 

pub struct RawContract {
    pub format: String,
    pub format_version: u32,
    pub semantics_profile: String,
    pub canonicalization_profile: String,
    pub identities: ContractIdentities,
    pub producer: ProducerInfo,
    pub types: Vec<TypeNode>,
    pub declarations: Vec<Declaration>,
    pub actor: Option<Actor>,
}

Unvalidated Contract data decoded from an external artifact.

This is the serde entry point for Contract JSON. Contract itself deliberately does not implement Deserialize: a trait impl has no argument position for a resource policy, so it could only ever decode under limits the library chose. Callers decode this DTO and convert through a policy-taking constructor such as Contract::try_from_raw_with_context, or use a bounded parse entry point such as Contract::from_json_with_context, which enforces max_input_bytes before decoding.

Decoding this DTO is not a trust boundary and carries no allocation bound; gate the byte length yourself, or use the bounded parse APIs.

This type is reserved for artifacts that already carry format markers and identities: Contract::try_from_raw verifies the supplied identities against recomputation, and From<&Contract> projects a validated Contract back onto the wire shape. To author a Contract — where no trustworthy identity exists yet — use ContractDraft, which carries no identity fields at all and calculates them on build.

// A validated Contract cannot be produced by serde alone.
let _: candid_core::Contract = serde_json::from_str("{}").unwrap();

Fields

format: String

format_version: u32

semantics_profile: String

canonicalization_profile: String

identities: ContractIdentities

producer: ProducerInfo

types: Vec<TypeNode>

declarations: Vec<Declaration>

actor: Option<Actor>

An actorless Contract omits this property entirely. "actor": null is not part of the v1 wire format: serialization never emits it, the identity payload never hashes it, and decoding rejects it.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for RawContract

fn clone(&self) -> RawContract

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for RawContract

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for RawContract

fn deserialize<__D>(__deserializer: __D) -> Result<Self, __D::Error>

where __D: Deserializer<'de>,

Deserialize this value from the given Serde deserializer.

impl Eq for RawContract

impl From<&Contract> for RawContract

fn from(contract: &Contract) -> Self

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl PartialEq for RawContract

fn eq(&self, other: &RawContract) -> bool

Equality operator ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Inequality operator !=.

impl Serialize for RawContract

fn serialize<__S>(&self, __serializer: __S) -> Result<__S::Ok, __S::Error>

where __S: Serializer,

Serialize this value into the given Serde serializer.

impl StructuralPartialEq for RawContract