I need to create my.token smart contract on EOS that will be exactly the same as eosio.token contract but my.token's symbol_code will allow a much bigger string. Something like 50 character long instead of just 7 uppercase letters.
with eosio.token you can have balances like: "10.0000 EOS", "1234.0000 KARMA", etc
what I need is to be able to have balances like: "10.0000 this.is.the.custom.name.of.the.currency"
I'm planning on replicate the asset definition replacing the symbol_code class with a my_symbol_code class in which i will be reimplementing the three key functions responsables for making the transformation some_kind_of_number_type <==> std::string back and forth; those functions tree are:
symbol_code( std::string_view str ); // the constructor
char* write_as_string( char* begin, char* end ) const;
bool is_valid() const; // cheks the string length
I will try to replicate the 12-max-character encoding strategy for eosio::name which uses uint64_t as numerical representation, but I will be using uint256_t in order to reach a 48-max-character encoding.
Since only uint64_t can be the returning type of the primary_key function, I will be using multi_index.available_primary_key for PK and I will create a uint256_t secondary index key for this "long string symbol code" implementation. Then the logic of my.token smart contract must use this secondary index instead of primary.
Q: how to implement a 48-char-long symbol token? is this approach ok?
I would love to have your opinions and suggestions about this plan, whether you know a better solution or you see a technical problemas or whatever knowledge that can make me save time in achieving this goal.
Thanks
