Sending messages

TON blockchain is a message-based one to communicate with other contracts you need to send messages.

The message consists of:

• value in TON - the amount of TON you want to send with the message. This value is used to cover gas fees on the receiver side.
• bounce - if set to true (default) then the message will be bounced back to the sender if the receiver contract doesn't exist or wasn't able to process the message.
• code and data - init package, useful for deployments
• body - message body as Cell
• mode - an 8-bit flag that configures how to send a message

Send simple reply

The simplest message is a reply to the incoming message returning all excess value of a message:

self.reply("Hello, World!".asComment()); // asComment converts string to a Cell with a comment

Send message

If you need more advanced logic you can use the send function directly.

This example sends a message to the to address with a value of 1 TON and the body of a comment with a string "Hello, World!".

SendIgnoreErrors means that even when an error occurs during message sending next messages would be sent anyway. No error during the sending phase would revert a transaction.

let to: Address = ...;
let value: Int = ton("1");
send(SendParameters{
    to: to,
    value: value, 
    mode: SendIgnoreErrors, 
    bounce: true, 
    body: "Hello, World!".asComment()
});

Send typed message

To send a binary typed message you can use the following code:

let to: Address = ...;
let value: Int = ton("1");
send(SendParameters{
    to: to,
    value: value, 
    mode: SendIgnoreErrors, 
    bounce: true, 
    body: SomeMessage{arg1: 123, arg2: 1234}.toCell()
});

Deploy contract

To deploy a contract you need to calculate its address and init package, then send it with an initial message. You can always send an init package with a message and it would be ignored, but would cost more than the message without an init package.

let init: StateInit = initOf SecondContract(arg1, arg2);
let address: Address = contractAddress(init);
let value: Int = ton("1");
send(SendParameters{
    to: address,
    value: value, 
    mode: SendIgnoreErrors, 
    bounce: true, 
    code: init.code,
    data: init.data,
    body: "Hello, World!".asComment()
});