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I am trying to understand all the properties of the transaction object. On the developers site (https://developers.eos.io/eosio-nodeos/docs/communication-model) they provide the below transaction object:

{ "expiration": "2018-04-01T15:20:44", "region": 0, "ref_block_num": 42580, "ref_block_prefix": 3987474256, "net_usage_words": 21, "kcpu_usage": 1000, "delay_sec": 0, "context_free_actions": [], "actions": [{ "account": "eosio.token", "name": "issue", "authorization": [{ "actor": "eosio", "permission": "active" } ], "data": "00000000007015d640420f000000000004454f5300000000046d656d6f" } ], "signatures": [ "" ], "context_free_data": [] }

My questions are 1) what context_free_actions is? 2)where are the scope and recipients fields that dan pointed out in this https://steemit.com/eos/@dan/eos-developer-s-log-stardate-201707-9 article? Scope was used so as a block can produced parallel? 3)How this achieved without the scope property?

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  1. Context free actions don't depend on (can't read or modify) the state of the blockchain and can therefore be executed in parallel.
  2. Receivers are notified and can "discard" a transaction if they deploy a custom dispatcher (see eosio::on_notify())
  3. Scope is already implemented in the state, each table has a scope - but it's not used for multi-threading yet.
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  • about the receivers statement. How does the node for which account to run the apply() method if its not in the trx?
    – stan14
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 13:20
  • The trx-example you provided above is the scheme of a typical "issue"-transaction and while issuing a token there are no additional accounts and therefore no receivers involved. To notify a receiver you would add require_recipient(receiver) to your smart contract.
    – cmadh
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 21:45
  • Ok so an additional field would be added to the trx object in that case.How this field would called? recipients or receivers? thank you
    – stan14
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 22:44
  • you don't neccessary need to add it to the transaction. If you for example automatically send rewards to holders of a specific token every night and just call a single action for that which does the rest for hundrets of accounts, depending on your implementation you don't have to add the receipients to the action-parameters. All you need is to call require_receipient([valid_eos_account_name]) from within your contract.
    – cmadh
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 22:59
  • I know the implementation side, I am programming eos smart contracts for like 1 year before now. I am just asking for a paper I am writing about Eos and so as to clarify the fields :)
    – stan14
    Commented Oct 4, 2019 at 1:01

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