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Fix canister call example in Quick start #133
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I haven't even finished reading the Quick start and already found what seems like a (broken) legacy example. I quickly found the solution though, and would ❤ to share it!
Problem
Executing this snippet from the Quick start:
Gives:
Why it happens
When executing the
dfx canister call
command, the default argument type (--type
) isidl
which is incompatible with the example which tries to pass a string argument without saying it's a string.I guess the default used to be
string
in the past?Solution
This PR appends
--type=string
to the broken command, and now it's fixed!