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Common patterns and best practices for working with CallData in production applications.

Function Call Encoding

Single Function Calls

Benefits:
  • Type-safe parameters
  • IDE autocomplete
  • Compile-time validation

Dynamic Parameters

Function Routing

Selector Matching

Decoding by Selector

Multicall Patterns

Batch Encoding

Decoding Multicall Results

Gas Optimization

Zero Byte Optimization

CallData costs 4 gas per zero byte, 16 gas per non-zero byte:

Calldata Compression

Error Handling

Validation Before Encoding

Decoding with Fallback

Transaction Construction

Complete Flow

Testing Patterns

Mock CallData

Selector Constants

Memory Management (Zig)

Proper Cleanup

Arena Allocator Pattern

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