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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

by Jitendra Chittoda
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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The ERC721Metadata interface

The ERC721Metadata interface is an optional interface to add other metadata details to your ERC721 NFTs. The developers can choose to add a token name, a token symbol, and a token URI as metadata to an ERC721 token. If they want to use these metadata fields for their token, they can use the ERC721Metadata contract; otherwise, they can ignore this. The interface provides the following view functions:

  • name(): The function returns the full name of the ERC721 NFT as a string datatype.
  • symbol(): The function returns the token symbol of the ERC721 NFT as a string datatype.
  • tokenURI(): The function returns the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) as a string datatype. The URI may contain a location to a JSON file. The ...
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