Smart Contract

A smart contract for a gym machine rental with various forms of transactions available for the owner and the customer.

Writing the Smart Contract in Solidity

The bookings are stored in an array of a user defined data structure using the keyword struct. Each booking data structure contains the start time, the end time (of the slots), the address of the customer booking the slot, and the name of the machine that is booked.
A constructor is used to predefine a set of machines in the gym, a list to which machines can be added later at any time by the owner. A modifier is used to define onlyOwner that cna be used in functions that are supposed to be called only by the owner.
The functions are pretty well defined for their purpose, the ones used in this contract are,

1. Book
   Pushes a new booking structure instance into the array of bookings.
2. checkSlot
   Checks if access to a machine exists in the time slot specified.
3. checkMachine
   Checks if a machine exists in the gym.
4. checkAccess
   Checks if a machine is occupied at a specified time.
5. checkTime
   Checks if the time entered is valid or not. This is not a public function, this is used only within the contract to verify the validity of the time entered.
6. addMachine
   Adds a machine to the list of machines to choose from.
7. setSlotPrice
   Only for the owner - Sets the price for each slot.
8. withdraw
   Allows the owner to withdraw the amount stored in the contract and transfer it to his wallet.

Deploying the contract using web3.py

Web3.py is a Python library for interacting with Ethereum. The documentation can be found here.

Requirements

1. Install solcx for compiling the solidity code

   pip install py-solc-x 
   

2. Install web3.py

   pip install web3
   

Procedure of deploying the contract

• The solidity code is first compiled using compile_standard from solcx, which returns a json file.
• The abi and bytecode are obtained from the json file, which can be accessed using the json library in python.
• Any function in the solidity code that involves a state change can only be called by making a transaction, which takes some gas price. You can make and send a transaction using the following code structure,

  contract = w3.eth.contract(abi=abi, bytecode=bytecode)
  nonce = w3.eth.getTransactionCount(address)
  Transaction = contract.constructor().buildTransaction(
      {
          "chainId": chain_id,
          "gasPrice": w3.eth.gas_price,
          "from": address,
          "nonce": nonce,
      }
  )
  signed_txn = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(Transaction, private_key)
  txn_hash = w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed_txn.rawTransaction)
  receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(txn_hash)
  

  The above code is used for deploying a contract, in order to call other functions in the solidity code,

  contract = w3.eth.contract(address=contract_address, abi=abi)
  nonce = w3.eth.getTransactionCount(address)
  Transaction = contract.functions.function_name(arguments).buildTransaction(
      {
          "chainId": chain_id,
          "gasPrice": w3.eth.gas_price,
          "from": address,
          "nonce": nonce,
          "value": value
      }
  )
  signed_txn = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(Transaction, private_key=key)
  txn_hash = w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed_txn.rawTransaction)
  receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(txn_hash)
  

  Using these two pieces of code, any function may be called and executed.
  (In deploy.py, the second half consists of code used to create a user interface to deploy and interact with a contract)

Deployed Contract

I have deployed a contract in the Rinkeby test network, the contract address is given by 0x1571690A35d4bBbe07693f6ea35bB02cCe6Aedf5. The transactions made to and from the contract can be viewed in Rinkeby Etherscan.

Instructions

In order to test the smart contract,

• Run deploy.py
• If you want to deploy a new contract, type yes. If you want to interact with the contract that is already deployed, type no.
• Type in your public and private keys, and then the contract address (if you don't want to deploy a new one) - 0x1571690A35d4bBbe07693f6ea35bB02cCe6Aedf5.
• You can now interact with the contract.