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I have a scenario where I need to store N no. of document hashes in a smart contract with some key(id). And also fetch the particular document hash by it's key. Any help on designing the structure for storing would be appreciated. Thanks

Anubhav Gupta
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Here's a rough version:

pragma solidity ^0.4.24;

contract Test {

    mapping(uint256 => string) hashes;

    function addDoc(uint256 id, string hash) public {
        hashes[id] = hash;
    }

    function getDoc(uint256 id) public view returns(string) {
        return hashes[id];
    }
}

Here you can store and retrieve the hashes based on a uint256 id. The mapping will store as many id<->hash values as you need.

What you should do next is change the string types to be something else (bytes of some length) and consider adding some mass-add function if you need to store multiple hashes at the same time.

Lauri Peltonen
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  • Thank you for the answer. This adds one key-value pair at a time, but I need to add multiple key-value pairs at the same time which will return one transaction Id. If I run a loop from front-end it will give me different Ids on each request that means I have to run a loop at contract itself? – Anubhav Gupta Sep 10 '18 at 10:14
  • As I already stated in the answer, you can consider adding some functionality to add multiple hashes within the same transaction. There are a lot of things you can continue with to make your contract better but I can't write you all of it. – Lauri Peltonen Sep 10 '18 at 10:18
  • I understand Lauri, but it would be really helpful if you can at least guide or suggest me, what could be used here for mass-adding. – Anubhav Gupta Sep 10 '18 at 10:28
  • Add a function which accepts a string[] parameter and loop over the contents to add each separate item. Or, even better, use bytes: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/17094/how-to-store-ipfs-hash-using-bytes – Lauri Peltonen Sep 10 '18 at 10:41