Smart Contract

We have to start with something, so we’re going to start with the simplest of all examples possible. A simple mapping.

Create a new file in Remix and put in the following content:

//SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
pragma solidity ^0.8.4;
 
contract SimpleMappingExample {
 
    mapping(uint => bool) public myMapping;
    mapping(address => bool) public myAddressMapping;
    
    function setValue(uint _index) public {
        myMapping[_index] = true;
    }
    
    function setMyAddressToTrue() public {
        myAddressMapping[msg.sender] = true;
    }
    
 
}
 

Run the Smart Contract

Mapping are an interesting datatype in Solidity. They are accessed like arrays, but they have one major advantage: All key/value pairs are initialized with their default value.

If you have a look at the example Smart Contract, you’ll see that we have two mappings.

One, that maps uint256 to booleans, that’s called myMapping. Another one that maps addresses to booleans, that we called myAddressMapping.

We can access a mapping with the brackets []. If we want to access the key “123” in our myMapping, then we’d simply write myMapping[123].

Our mappings here are public, so Solidity will automatically generate a getter-function for us. That means, if we deploy the Smart Contract, we will automatically have a function that looks technically like this:

function myMapping(uint index) returns (bool) {
    return myMapping[index];
}

We don’t need to explicitly write the function. Also not for myAddressMapping. Since both are public variables, Solditiy will add these auto_magic_ally.

Let’s run the Smart Contract and see what happens!

Head over to the “Deploy and Run Transactions” Plugin and run the Smart Contract:

Perfect, let’s read and write to the uint => bool mapping myMapping first.