Dfx encode principal

[peterparker]

@paulyoung

Most likely related to Bash not expanding variables between single quotes.

echo '(record {manager = principal"'${MANAGER}'";})' should reveal the string you’re providing and allow you to experiment.

Thanks! @nmattia literally just helped me debug this (not all heroes wear capes) and while we did not find the solution, he found a workaround by encoding the argument in raw

#!/usr/bin/env bash

MANAGER=$(dfx identity get-principal)

dfx deploy console --argument "$(didc encode '(record {manager = principal"'${MANAGER}'";})' --format hex)" --argument-type raw

and making the argument mandatory

let call_arg = arg_data::<(ConsoleArgs,)>().0;
let manager = call_arg.manager;

@paulyoung

For what it’s worth; if you always want the manager to be the caller, I think you can remove the argument and use ic_cdk::caller() instead.

Oh that’s a good idea