I couldn’t find any good documentation about it. I know that canisters can do import Canister "canister:<name>" to import another canister from the same dfx.json project. If the canister isn’t specified in the dfx.json, then the programmer can write something like: actor { public func main() :…

[image] jzxchiang: Gotcha. Does that mean it’s best not to use this import syntax at all, whether locally or in production? I think it simply doesn’t work yet, so yes :-). It is ok to use of you’d use a different build system than dfx that provides the Candid files for these canisters to the…

I think it’s not fully supported by the full toolchain. The vision was that if you import Canister "ic:7igbu-3qaaa-aaaaa-qaapq-cai" then dfx would fetch the candid interface from the Internet Computer and thus give you the right type directly, so you wouldn’t have to write the type in your code (and…

Gotcha. Does that mean it’s best not to use this import syntax at all, whether locally or in production?

we only decided on the “official” system-level protocol for storing and fetching that interface with the canister very recently, which was blocking this Interesting, do you happen to have a link to this?

When is `import Canister "ic:<canister-id>"` used?

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When is `import Canister "ic:<canister-id>"` used?

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