Getting actor (class) from Principal

[paulyoung]

I think this will help:

Calling another canister's methods

You can also use a canister id to access a previously deployed canister: canister1/main.mo actor { public func main(canisterId: Text) : async Nat { let canister2 = actor(canisterId): actor { getValue: () -> async Nat }; return await canister2.getValue(); }; }; Where canister2’s id from the previous example can be passed in, similar to: $ dfx canister call canister1 main "ic:6EF4FCAD1FD36EB654" --type string Note the type signature actor { getValue: () -> async Nat } …