Deploy & Run

The Deploy & Run module allows you to send transactions to the current environment.

To get to the Run & Deploy module - click the run icon in the icon panel.

In order to use this module you need to have a contract compiled. So, if there is a contract name in the contract select box (in the image below it's the pulldown that says Ballot), then you can interact with this contract. If nothing is there - then you need to select a contract. And you do that by clicking the file in the editor panel to make it the active tab ( in the image below - on the right side of the page - in the main panel - you see the ballot.sol so it is the active contract). Once its active, then go to the compiler module and compile it. Then come back to Deploy & Run.

Run Setup

The following settings allow you to directly influence the transaction execution:

Environment:

JavaScript VM: All the transactions will be executed in a sandbox blockchain in the browser. This means nothing will be persisted when you reload the page. The JsVM is its own blockchain and on each reload it will start a new blockchain, the old one will not be saved.
Injected Provider: Remix will connect to an injected web3 provider. Metamask is an example of a provider that inject web3.
Web3 Provider: Remix will connect to a remote node. You will need to provide the URL to the selected provider: geth, parity or any Ethereum client.

Account:

Account: the list of accounts associated with the current environment (and their associated balances). On the JsVM, you have a choice of 5 accounts. If using Injected Web3 with MetaMask, you need to change the account in MetaMask.

Gas Limit:

This sets the maximum amount of gas that will be allowed for all the transactions created in Remix.

Value:

This sets the amount of ETH, WEI, GWEI etc that is sent to a contract or a payable function. ( Note: payable functions have a red button). The value is always reset to 0 after each transaction execution).

Initiate Instance

In the image above the select box is set to Ballot. This select box will contain the list of compiled contracts.
Deploy send a transaction that deploys the selected contract. When the transaction is mined, the newly created instance will be added (this might take several seconds). Note that if the constructor has parameters, you need to specify them.
At Address this is used at access a contract that has already been deployed. It assumes that the given address is an instance of the selected contract. Note: There's no check at this point, so be careful when using this feature, and be sure you trust the contract at that address.

Pending Instances

Validating a transaction takes several seconds. During this time, the GUI shows it in a pending mode. When the transaction is mined the number of pending transactions is updated and the transaction is added to the log (see terminal).

Using the ABI

Using Deploy or At Address is a classic use case of Remix. However, it is possible to interact with a contract by using its ABI. The ABI is a JSON array which describe its interface.

To interact with a contract using the ABI, create a new file in Remix with extension *.abi and copy the ABI content to it. Then, in the input next to At Address, put the Address of the contract you want to interact with. Click on At Address, a new "connection" with the contract will popup below.

Using the Recorder

The Recorder allows to you to save a bunch of transactions in a JSON file and rerun them later either in the same environment or in another.

You can also update the file adjust the transaction list, tweak input parameters, change linked library, etc...

There are many use cases for the recorder, for instance:

After having coded and tested contracts in a constrained environment (like the JavaScript VM), you can easily redeploy them in a more persisted environment (like a Geth node) in order to check whether everything behaves normally in a classic environment.
Deploying contract does often require more than creating one transaction. ( note: is this point needed?)
Working in a dev environment often requires setting up the state in a first place. ( **note: is this saying - After testing in on the JsVM, quickly deploying another environment in a controlled fashion. **)

To save some transactions click on the floppy disc icon. A file called senario.json will be written and saved in the file explorer.

Below is an example of this file where 3 transactions are executed:

The first corresponds to the deployment of the lib testLib.

The second corresponds to the deployment of the contract test with the first parameter of the constructor set to 11. That contract depends on a library. The linkage is done using the property linkReferences. In that case we use the address of the previously created library : created{1512830014773}. The number is the id (timestamp) of the transaction that led to the creation of the library.

The third record corresponds to the call to the function set of the contract test (the property to is set to: created{1512830015080}) . Input parameters are 1 and 0xca35b7d915458ef540ade6068dfe2f44e8fa733c

All these transactions are created using the value of the accounts account{0}.

{.sourceCode .none}
{
"accounts": {
    "account{0}": "0xca35b7d915458ef540ade6068dfe2f44e8fa733c"
},
"linkReferences": {
    "testLib": "created{1512830014773}"
},
"transactions": [
    {
    "timestamp": 1512830014773,
    "record": {
        "value": "0",
        "parameters": [],
        "abi": "0xbc36789e7a1e281436464229828f817d6612f7b477d66591ff96a9e064bcc98a",
        "contractName": "testLib",
        "bytecode": "60606040523415600e57600080fd5b60968061001c6000396000f300606060405260043610603f576000357c0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000900463ffffffff1680636d4ce63c146044575b600080fd5b604a6060565b6040518082815260200191505060405180910390f35b6000610d809050905600a165627a7a7230582022d123b15248b8176151f8d45c2dc132063bcc9bb8d5cd652aea7efae362c8050029",
        "linkReferences": {},
        "type": "constructor",
        "from": "account{0}"
    }
    },
    {
    "timestamp": 1512830015080,
    "record": {
        "value": "100",
        "parameters": [
        11
        ],
        "abi": "0xc41589e7559804ea4a2080dad19d876a024ccb05117835447d72ce08c1d020ec",
        "contractName": "test",
        "bytecode": "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__browser/ballot.sol:testLib____________636d4ce63c6000604051602001526040518163ffffffff167c010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002815260040160206040518083038186803b151561022e57600080fd5b6102c65a03f4151561023f57600080fd5b505050604051805190509050905600a165627a7a72305820e0b2510bb2890a0334bfe5613d96db3e72442e63b514cdeaee8fc2c6bbd19d3a0029",
        "linkReferences": {
        "browser/ballot.sol": {
            "testLib": [
            {
                "length": 20,
                "start": 511
            }
            ]
        }
        },
        "name": "",
        "type": "constructor",
        "from": "account{0}"
    }
    },
    {
    "timestamp": 1512830034180,
    "record": {
        "value": "1000000000000000000",
        "parameters": [
        1,
        "0xca35b7d915458ef540ade6068dfe2f44e8fa733c"
        ],
        "to": "created{1512830015080}",
        "abi": "0xc41589e7559804ea4a2080dad19d876a024ccb05117835447d72ce08c1d020ec",
        "name": "set",
        "type": "function",
        "from": "account{0}"
    }
    }
],
"abis": {
    "0xbc36789e7a1e281436464229828f817d6612f7b477d66591ff96a9e064bcc98a": [
    {
        "constant": true,
        "inputs": [],
        "name": "get",
        "outputs": [
        {
            "name": "",
            "type": "uint256"
        }
        ],
        "payable": false,
        "stateMutability": "view",
        "type": "function"
    }
    ],
    "0xc41589e7559804ea4a2080dad19d876a024ccb05117835447d72ce08c1d020ec": [
    {
        "constant": true,
        "inputs": [],
        "name": "getInt",
        "outputs": [
        {
            "name": "",
            "type": "uint256"
        }
        ],
        "payable": false,
        "stateMutability": "view",
        "type": "function"
    },
    {
        "constant": true,
        "inputs": [],
        "name": "getFromLib",
        "outputs": [
        {
            "name": "",
            "type": "uint256"
        }
        ],
        "payable": false,
        "stateMutability": "view",
        "type": "function"
    },
    {
        "constant": true,
        "inputs": [],
        "name": "getAddress",
        "outputs": [
        {
            "name": "",
            "type": "address"
        }
        ],
        "payable": false,
        "stateMutability": "view",
        "type": "function"
    },
    {
        "constant": false,
        "inputs": [
        {
            "name": "_t",
            "type": "uint256"
        },
        {
            "name": "_add",
            "type": "address"
        }
        ],
        "name": "set",
        "outputs": [],
        "payable": true,
        "stateMutability": "payable",
        "type": "function"
    },
    {
        "inputs": [
        {
            "name": "_r",
            "type": "uint256"
        }
        ],
        "payable": true,
        "stateMutability": "payable",
        "type": "constructor"
    }
    ]
}
}

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