Type casting

Type casting is currently an experimental feature. To convert Plutus data to JavaScript data structures, you'll need information about the type's shape, which is stored in a JSON schema. To make this process more convenient, we use a tool called Typebox.

import { Data } from "https://deno.land/x/lucid/mod.ts";

const ListingSchema = Data.Object({
  owner: Data.Bytes(),
  amount: Data.Integer(),
  private: Data.Boolean(),
});

Furthermore, we can generate a TypeScript type definition from the data structure:

type Listing = Data.Static<typeof ListingSchema>;
const Listing = ListingSchema as unknown as Listing;

Cast to plutus data:

const listing = Data.to(
  { owner: "31313131313131", amount: 5252352323n, private: false },
  Listing,
);

Cast from plutus data:

const listing: Listing = Data.from(
  "d8799f47313131313131311b0000000139108943d87980ff",
  Listing,
);