Printer documentation

Slither allows printing contracts information through its printers.

Contract Summary

slither file.sol --printer contract-summary

Output a quick summary of the contract.

Example

$ slither examples/printers/quick_summary.sol --printer contract-summary

Function Summary

slither file.sol --printer function-summary

Output a summary of the contract showing for each function:

• What are the visibility and the modifiers
• What are the state variables read or written
• What are the calls

Example

$ slither tests/backdoor.sol --printer function-summary

[...]

Contract C
Contract vars: []
Inheritances:: []
 
+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------------+-------+---------------------------+----------------+
|     Function    | Visibility | Modifiers |      Read      | Write |       Internal Calls      | External Calls |
+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------------+-------+---------------------------+----------------+
| i_am_a_backdoor |   public   |     []    | ['msg.sender'] |   []  | ['selfdestruct(address)'] |       []       |
+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------------+-------+---------------------------+----------------+

+-----------+------------+------+-------+----------------+----------------+
| Modifiers | Visibility | Read | Write | Internal Calls | External Calls |
+-----------+------------+------+-------+----------------+----------------+
+-----------+------------+------+-------+----------------+----------------+

Inheritance Graph

slither file.sol --printer inheritance-graph

Output a graph showing the inheritance interaction between the contracts.

This printer requires xdot installed for vizualization:

sudo apt install xdot

Example

$ slither examples/printers/inheritances.sol --printer inheritance-graph
[...]
INFO:PrinterInheritance:Inheritance Graph: examples/DAO.sol.dot

The output format is dot. To vizualize the graph:

xdot examples/printers/inheritances.sol.dot

To convert the file to svg:

dot examples/printers/inheritances.sol.dot -Tsvg -o examples/printers/inheritances.sol.png

Functions in orange override a parent's functions. If a variable points to another contract, the contract type is written in blue.

Variables written and authorization

slither file.sol --printer vars-and-auth

Print the variables written and the check on msg.sender of each function.

Example

...
$ slither examples/printers/authorization.sol --printer vars-and-auth
[..]
INFO:Printers:
Contract MyContract
+-------------+-------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|   Function  | State variables written |        Conditions on msg.sender        |
+-------------+-------------------------+----------------------------------------+
| constructor |        ['owner']        |                   []                   |
|     mint    |       ['balances']      | ['require(bool)(msg.sender == owner)'] |
+-------------+-------------------------+----------------------------------------+

SlithIR

slither file.sol --printer slithir

Print the IR for every function

$ slither examples/printers/slihtir.sol --printer slithir
Contract UnsafeMath
	Function add(uint256,uint256)
		Expression: a + b
		IRs:
			TMP_0(uint256) = a + b
			RETURN TMP_0
	Function min(uint256,uint256)
		Expression: a - b
		IRs:
			TMP_0(uint256) = a - b
			RETURN TMP_0
Contract MyContract
	Function transfer(address,uint256)
		Expression: balances[msg.sender] = balances[msg.sender].min(val)
		IRs:
			REF_3(uint256) -> balances[msg.sender]
			REF_1(uint256) -> balances[msg.sender]
			TMP_1(uint256) = LIBRARY_CALL, dest:UnsafeMath, function:min, arguments:['REF_1', 'val'] 
			REF_3 := TMP_1
		Expression: balances[to] = balances[to].add(val)
		IRs:
			REF_3(uint256) -> balances[to]
			REF_1(uint256) -> balances[to]
			TMP_1(uint256) = LIBRARY_CALL, dest:UnsafeMath, function:add, arguments:['REF_1', 'val'] 
			REF_3 := TMP_1