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Hardhat ABI Exporter

Export Solidity contract ABIs on compilation via Hardhat.

Versions of this plugin prior to 2.0.0 were released as buidler-abi-exporter.

Installation

yarn add --dev hardhat-abi-exporter

Usage

Load plugin in Hardhat config:

require('hardhat-abi-exporter');

Add configuration under the abiExporter key:

option	description	default
path	path to ABI export directory (relative to Hardhat root)	'./abi'
clear	whether to delete old files in path on	false
flat	whether to flatten output directory (may cause name collisions)	false
only	Array of contracts to include (case sensitive), defaults to all contracts if length is 0	[]
except	Array of contracts to exclude (case sensitive)	[]

abiExporter: {
  path: './data/abi',
  clear: true,
  flat: true,
  only: ['ERC20'],
}

The path directory will be created if it does not exist.

The clear option is set to false by default because it represents a destructive action, but should be set to true in most cases.

ABIs files are saved in the format [CONTRACT_NAME].json.