Reading Assignment - EOS Basics

[devona_harris]

1. Actions define atomic behaviors. They are authorized by one or more actors previously created on the block chain.

2. The key difference between Inline and Explicit actions is that the inline actions are not included in the actual transactions propagated through the network and eventually included in a block: they are implicit… Explicit actions contain actual payload data. Explicit actions are included in actually list of actions that form transactions. They are encoded as action instances. Implicit actions are generated as a result of an explicit caller action within a transactions that requires that implicit action to perform an operation for the caller action to continue.

3. An action will be sent as part of the current transaction , meaning that if anything within the action fails, the entire current transaction will also fail. This also consumes your allotted CPU time.A transaction is automatically a deferred transaction. Whether its contents pass or fail has no impact on the current transaction. If no delay time is set for the transaction, then it will execute in the next block. A transaction can contain multiple actions

4. A transaction receipt summarizes the result of the transaction (executed, unexecuted, failed, deferred, expired, and etc even including the actual amount of CPU billed in Microseconds and the totel NET storage used. When a transaction is received it means that the block producer receive the transactions and it will be evaluated.

[iceman007]

1. What’s an action?
   Actions represent behaviors within a smart contract.

2. What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?
   Explicit Actions are included in the list of actions that form a transaction and contain payload data associated with the action to be executed as part of the transaction.

Implicit Actions which are generated by an explicit caller action within the transaction to perform an operation and are guaranteed to execute within the same transaction but are not included in the actual transactions propagated through the network.

3. What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?
   An action is a bahavior within a smart contract whereas a transaction represents a group of bahaviors.

4. What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?
   A transaction receipt gives a summary of the results of a transaction plus related information about the transaction. When transaction receipt is received it means all actions in the transaction have been executed.

[Vlavio]

1-> a action is a piece of code that is created explicitly within a smart contract to be executed by the actors
2 -> explicit or regular actions are included in the actual list of the transaction, the implicit actions are a as called side effects in the same transaction
3 -> The transaction contains the total sum of actions that taken place after executed the transaction
4 -> The transaction receipt summarizes the result of the transaction, receiving the transaction receipt means that all action receipts are generated for the transaction and that the receipt is finally created and pushed into the signed block

[Jesal_Patel]

1. What’s an action?

An action defines the atomic behaviors within a smart contract.

2. What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?

Explicit actions are included in the actual list of actions that form a transaction and are present in a signed transaction. Explicit actions may contain actual payload data associated with the action to be executed as part of a transaction.

Implicit actions are generated as a result of an explicit caller action within a transaction that requires that implicit action to perform an operation for the caller action to continue.

3. What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?

An action represents a function carried out as part of a transaction. A transaction comprises of one to many actions. The success of a transaction is dependent on the execution of its actions.

4. What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?

A transaction receipt summarizes the work carried out on a transaction including status, CPU usage, net storage used and id. Receiving it provides context into the state of a transaction.

[cherryknot]

1. An action is a single operation, whereas a transaction is a collection of one or more actions.
2. A transaction receipt is received when a transaction is completed. A transaction hash means that node accepted it without error.
3. 1. Receiver: The account which is currently proccessing trancation
      Code: Account that authorized contract.
      Action: ID of currently running action.
      4.An ABI file lets an application know how it can interact with a binary representation of the contract it was generated from.

[muradawad]

1. action is a single operation, transaction is a collection of one or more actions

2. It is a confirmation on completion of transaction.

3. receiver is the account which is currently processing the action.
   code is the account which authorized the contract.
   action is the ID of the action.

4. It summarizes the result of the transaction, including the actual amount of CPU billed in microseconds and the total NET storage being used.

[Kae_Y]

1. What’s an action?

Actions define atomic behaviors within a smart contract

1. What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?

The key difference is that inline actions are not included in the actual transactions propagated through the network and eventually included in a block; they are implicit.

1. What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?

actions specify and define the actual behaviors of the contract. Several actions are implemented in the standard EOSIO contracts for account creation, producer voting, token operations, etc. Application developers can extend, replace, or disable this functionality altogether by creating custom actions within their own smart contracts and applications. Transactions, on the other hand, are typically created at the application level. Smart contracts are agnostic to them.

1. What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?

After all actions included in the transaction are executed, the transaction enters the finalization stage. In this step, a corresponding action receipt is produced for each action. The action receipt contains a hash of the corresponding action instance, a few counters used for analytics, and the receiver account to which the action is intended to, if applicable.

The transaction receipt summarizes the result of the transaction

[inzhagey]

1. What’s an action?
   An action is all the things that run inside of a transaction.

2. What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?
   Explicit action is run along with the actions in a signed transaction.

3. What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?
   An action is a code that is a single operation while transactions consist of one or more actions.

4. What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?
   The receipt tells everything the transaction is about and if it is received then the transaction was successful and it is confirmed and accepted by a node.

[freshmattybe]

1. An action is a single (atomic) operation defined in a smart contract.
2. Explicit actions appear as part of the transaction. Implicit actions occur during processing but are not visible in the result.
3. An action is a single event; a transaction contains several actions
4. A transaction receipt is generated after all the actions have been executed. It means that the transaction is compete and has been added to a block.

[MariaY]

1. What’s an action?
   Behaviors within a smart contract.
2. What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?
   Regular actions in the actual list of actions that form a transaction - includes payload data.
   An implicit action requires the caller action to continue.
3. What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?
   A transaction includes transaction headers and list of actions.
   Transactions are created within an application pushing the related action into a list.
   Action list signatures are created and validated on a transaction basis.
   It includes receivers account, the action name, the list of actors, and their permissions.
4. What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?
   It summarizes the result of the transaction after all have been executed including the amount of CPU billed and Net Storage used.

[laserkavajen]

1.What is an action?

Action is a single operation.

2.What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?

Explicit action happens when the user calls action from the outside. Implicit actions is generated as a result of an explicit caller action within a transaction.

3.What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?

A transaction is a deferred transaction and action is a part o a transaction.

4.What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?

It’s a confirmation that the node received the transaction without error.

[madingo]

EOS Basics

1. Action defines an atomic behaviour within a smart contract. It can be authorized by one or more actors previously created on a blockchain. It can be created explicitly within a smart contract, or implicitly by an application code.

2. The difference between explicit actions and implicit action (or inline) actions is that implicit(inline) actions are not included in the actual transactions propagated through the network but eventually included in a block.

3. The difference between an action and a transaction is that, action is implemented as C++ methods within the derived class while transaction is generated dynamically (as transaction instances) within an EOSIO application.

4. A transaction receipt is a summary of the result of transaction (executed, unexecuted, failed, deferred, expired, etc.), including the actual amount of the CPU billed in microseconds, and the total net storage.
   when a transaction receipt is received, it means that the transaction is being pushed into a signed block, along with other transaction receipts included in the block.

[K_P]

1. An action is a specific or “atomic” behavior within a smart contract and a group of actions executed within a decentralized application is defined as a transaction.
2. An explicit, or regular action, is an action that is encoded as an “action instance” before being pushed into the transaction. An implicit (or inline) action is an action generated as a result of either an explicit caller action or within another inline action, if nested as such. It is guaranteed to execute within the same transaction as the caller action that it depends on.
3. An action is contained within a transaction, whereas a transaction (or transaction instance) consists of a transaction header, transaction extensions and a list of actions.
4. A transaction receipt is created after all action receipts are generated, and is a summary of the transaction results, the amount of CPU billed in milliseconds and total NET storage. Receiving the transaction refers to the receiver account hash that may be included along with those for the corresponding action instance and counters used for analytics.

[Bridge]

1. What is an action?
   Actions define atomic behaviors within a smart contract. Actions maybe explicit or implicit.

2. What is the difference between explicit and implicit ( or inline)actions?
   An explicit action is created by a smart contract. Implicit actions are created as a side effect of processing transactions, as a result of explicit action or other implicit action.

3. What is the difference between an action and a transition?
   An action is only part of a transaction. A transaction consists of headers, list of action instances and transaction instances.

4. What’s a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?
   Transaction receipts summarize the transaction. It means it ran through the outcomes could be executed,unexecuted, failed, delayed, expired ,etc.

[carry2web]

1. What’s an action?
   a single operation implemented as a c++ method in the transaction smart contract
2. What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?
   explicit actions are included in, or form, the transaction, while implicit actions are not and are generated
3. What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?
   a transaction consists of a list of actions
4. What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?
   The transaction receipt summarizes the result of the transaction and contains the CPU and NET used. A receiving node can use it to re-validate the transcation.

[bpoletti]

1. An action is the behaviors that exist within a smart contract
2. Explicit actions are included in the actual list of actions a transaction has while implicit actions are generated as a result of an explicit action within a transaction
3. Transactions are generated dynamically within the application while actions are implemented using C++ within a class
4. A summary of transactions in a block. Receiving a recipe means the block knows the info of different fields related to a transaction and whether or not the transaction has failed

[bbss]

1. An action is an automatic behavior within a contract.

2. An explicit action is present in a signed transaction, while an inline action is a side-effect of processing a transaction.

3. A transaction is a group of actions that must fail or succeed as a group.

4. A transaction receipt summaries the result of a transaction. To receive it means that the transaction succeeded.

[ErrorCode]

1) What’s an action?

Atomic behaviours occuring due to a defined action within a smart contract.
2) What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?
Explicit action is an action encoded or listed into the transaction smart contract.
Implicit action is behaviours occuring as a consequence of the atomic behaviour of explicit action(s).
3) What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?
The Transaction is generated when the EOSIO software process’ the listed action(s).
Actions are listed as part of the transaction instance and define the behaviours of the contract/transaction.
4) What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?
The transdaction reciept is created and pushed to the signed block once all the action reciepts have been generated and summerises all the results of the transaction execution.

[Dougal]

1. What’s an action?
   A single operation within a transaction (which usually consists of more than one action).

2. What’s the difference between explicit actions and implicit (or inline) actions?
   Explicit actions are actions specifically included within a transaction whereas implicit or inline actions are actions resulting as a side effect of processing the transaction.

3. What’s the difference between an action and a transaction?
   An action is a specific item of intent included within a transaction. A transaction consists of various actions within the framework of a smart contract which has been cryptographically processed and signed and sent to the chain to be either processed, declined or delayed.

4. What is a transaction receipt and what does it mean to receive it?
   A transaction receipt is produced for each action. The action receipt contains a hash of the corresponding action instance, a few counters used for analytics, and the receiver account to which the action is intended to, if applicable. The transaction receipt summarizes the result of the transaction (executed, unexecuted, failed, deferred, expired, etc.

[miharola]

An action is a single operation in a smart contract.
Explicit action is included in a transaction and Implicit(inline) action are not. Implicit action is a result of an explicit action
An action creates transaction. An action is a single operation. Transaction is a group of operations. Transaction= successful operations.
Transaction receipt is the result of the all action receipts generated for the transaction.