Returns the value from a storage position at a given address, or in other words, returns the state of the contract's storage, which may not be exposed via the contract's methods.
Returns the value from a storage position at a given address, or in other words, returns the state of the contract's storage, which may not be exposed via the contract's methods.
PARAMETERS
Address
- (required) A 20-byte address of the storage.
Position
- (required) An integer of the position in the storage.
Block Number
- (optional) An integer block number, or the string "latest"
, "earliest"
, or "pending"
as described in the default block parameter.
REQUEST
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "eth_getStorageAt",
"params": [
"0x5300000000000000000000000000000000000002",
"0x0",
"latest"
],
"id": 1
}
RESPONSE
Result
- The value at this storage position.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": "0x000000000000000000000000bbdd6eb051df173373e36fc418d22667ec4294c1"
}
EXAMPLE
Calculating the correct position depends on the storage to retrieve. Consider the following contract deployed at 0x295a70b2de5e3953354a6a8344e616ed314d7251
by address 0x391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298
.
contract Storage {
uint pos0;
mapping(address => uint) pos1;
function Storage() {
pos0 = 1234;
pos1[msg.sender] = 5678;
}
}
Retrieving the value of pos0
is straightforward.
Retrieving an element of the map is harder. The position of an element in the map is calculated with:
keccack(LeftPad32(key, 0), LeftPad32(map position, 0))
This means to retrieve the storage on pos1["0x391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298"]
we need to calculate the position with:
keccak(
decodeHex(
"000000000000000000000000391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298" +
"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"
)
);
The geth console which comes with the web3 library can be used to make the calculation:
> var key = "000000000000000000000000391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298" + "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"
undefined
> web3.sha3(key, {"encoding": "hex"})
"0x6661e9d6d8b923d5bbaab1b96e1dd51ff6ea2a93520fdc9eb75d059238b8c5e9"
Now to fetch the storage:
REQUEST
{
"jsonrpc":"2.0",
"method":"eth_getStorageAt",
"params":[
"0x295a70b2de5e3953354a6a8344e616ed314d7251",
"0x6661e9d6d8b923d5bbaab1b96e1dd51ff6ea2a93520fdc9eb75d059238b8c5e9",
"latest"
],
"id":1
}
RESPONSE
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": "0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000162e"
}