thegraph.com How to update data source programmatically to track new contract?

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Based on the doc, it seems that we need to specify the address of the contract we want to track. How could I track the new contract? eg. After deploying a factory contract, we also need to track all the new contract created by the factory.

Understanding that you could do this manually or writing a Cron task to check new contract deployment and script a re-deployment, is there any way to do this programmatically within thegraph.com? eg. How does uniswap track new trading pair after someone adding them (new contract address to track I suppose)?

pragma solidity >=0.5.0;

interface IUniswapV2Factory {
  event PairCreated(address indexed token0, address indexed token1, address pair, uint);

  function getPair(address tokenA, address tokenB) external view returns (address pair);
  function allPairs(uint) external view returns (address pair);
  function allPairsLength() external view returns (uint);

  function feeTo() external view returns (address);
  function feeToSetter() external view returns (address);

  function createPair(address tokenA, address tokenB) external returns (address pair);
}

It's straight forward to track the factory contract. But after createPair, how could I track the newly created contract address pair? Is it possible to do this within thegraph.com? Or do I have to do it the hard way?

Answer: https://thegraph.com/docs/define-a-subgraph#data-source-templates

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '20 at 06:34

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Usually, factory contract emits an event when it deploys a new contract. Just track this event. However the question lacks the source code of the contracts so it is hard to say.

answered Dec 20 '20 at 06:34

Mikko Ohtamaa

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thanks for your reply. `event PairCreated(address indexed token0, address indexed token1, address pair, uint);` How do you start to track the newly deployed contract `address pair` ? – noooooooob Dec 21 '20 at 01:50
The contract is in `address pair` AFK – Mikko Ohtamaa Dec 21 '20 at 09:55
@noooooooob did you figure out the answer? looking to do something similar – Prithvish Baidya Sep 14 '22 at 08:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 18 '23 at 10:23

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You can't use dataSources dynamically. You must create a templates on your subgraph.yaml file for the child contract. If you checked the Uniswap subgraph, the factory contract is a dataSources, but the Pair (the child contract) used templates.

It is explained in the graph documentation.

edited Apr 18 '23 at 10:23

Adrian Mole

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answered Apr 10 '23 at 20:26

yehia tarek

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 25 '23 at 10:13

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you can look into the official doc of subgraph. https://thegraph.com/docs/en/developing/creating-a-subgraph/#data-source-templates

answered Jul 25 '23 at 10:13

Vijay raj panchal

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