unknown type name `account_name` in current version of eosio.token contract?

Question

I'm attempting to follow this guide, which seems official: https://developers.eos.io/eosio-home/docs/token-contract which uses the v1.4.0 branch of the EOSIO contracts

when I follow the steps, the contract compiles. however, as I want to use the latest version of the contract (because presumably it's been fixed/improved), it fails to compile. here's what I'm using:

https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/blob/master/contracts/eosio.token/eosio.token.cpp

and the error that I get:

In file included from nav.token.cpp:6: ./nav.token.hpp:22:10: error: unknown type name 'account_name' token( account_name self ):contract(self){}

now, I understand from reading:

https://www.reddit.com/r/eos/comments/9nm6hq/help_with_eosiocdt/

that account_name has been deprecated, but if so, why does the latest version of this contract use it?

for completeness, I'm running the CDT (v 1.4.1) on OSX, installed via brew only yesterday so it's pretty current

help?

Answer 1

The updated contract you're looking for is here. It uses the new name:

https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio.contracts/blob/master/eosio.token/src/eosio.token.cpp

Answer 2

The contracts we should use come from the eosio.contracts git repo, not the ones in the eos repo.

eosio.contracts repo:

https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio.contracts

This has to be compiled using the eosio.cdt repo

eosio.cdt repo:

https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio.cdt

Answer 3

As the types are differences between Version 1.2.x and Version 1.3.x

If you don't want update the contract, you may also try this :

• CDT v1.2.0
• EOSIO v1.2.4
• contract v1.2.1