There are two canisters, and when using a function in canister A to call a function in canister B, need to pass in the canister id <Principal> of canister A as a parameter, so is there any way to get the canister id in the motoko code? like address(this) in Ethereum solidity One way that is not so …

While that solution works, it’s quite slow since it requires an expensive await. A more direct solution is to declare the optional this parameter of the actor or actor class and return its principal using the Principal.fromActor base library function. Something like: import Principal "mo:base/Prin…

How to get the canister identifier in the motoko code?

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ggreif October 10, 2024, 3:59pm 16

Indeed. See What is special about actor wrapper and this? - Motoko - #4 by ggreif.

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How to get the canister identifier in the motoko code?

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