Call a chain

Interactive Guidance (Recommended)

Interact with a chain using Pop CLI's interactive guidance by simply entering:

pop call chain

You will be prompted to select a pallet, the dispatchable function and its required arguments, connection details for the chain, and the account to sign the transaction.

pop call chain

Manual (non-interactive)

If you prefer not to use interactive prompts, you can call the chain by specifying all the required arguments directly:

pop call chain --pallet System --function remark --args "0x11" --url ws://localhost:9944/ --suri //Alice --skip-confirm

┌   Pop CLI : Call a chain
│
◇  Would you like to dispatch this function call with `Root` origin?
│  No 
│
⚙  pop call chain --pallet System --function remark --args "0x11" --url ws://localhost:9944/ --suri //Alice
│  
⚙  Encoded call data: 0x00000411
│  
◇  Do you want to submit the extrinsic?
│  Yes 
│
◇  Extrinsic submitted with hash: "0xadbfbb2f92b22a2c5d6542ba80e4111b5c60057f594a6d155341879c5a46f96e"
│
└  Call complete.

Additional Options

• To dispatch a call with Root origin when the chain's runtime includes pallet-sudo, you can wrap the call in a sudo.sudo() call by using the --sudo flag:

pop call chain --pallet System --function remark --args "0x11" --url ws://localhost:9944/ --suri //Alice --sudo

• If you already have the SCALE-encoded call data, and want to directly submit the extrinsic:

pop call chain --call 0x00000411 --url ws://localhost:9944/ --suri //Alice

┌   Pop CLI : Call a chain
│
⚙  Encoded call data: 0x00000411
│  
◇  Do you want to submit the extrinsic?
│  Yes 
│
◇  Extrinsic submitted successfully with hash: "0x60b10fa42fa7bb9e36460d199cef55b28b41dae3f9bb3326fc0e584009ce305b"
│
└  Call complete.

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