Calling contracts

Once you've deployed your contract, as seen in the previous sections, you'll likely want to:

1. Call contract methods;
2. Configure call parameters and transaction policies;
3. Forward coins and gas in your contract calls;
4. Read and interpret returned values and logs.

Here's an example. Suppose your Sway contract has two ABI methods called initialize_counter(u64) and increment_counter(u64). Once you've deployed it the contract, you can call these methods like this:

{{#include ../../../examples/contracts/src/lib.rs:use_deployed_contract}}

The example above uses all the default configurations and performs a simple contract call.

Furthermore, if you need to separate submission from value retrieval for any reason, you can do so as follows:

{{#include ../../../examples/contracts/src/lib.rs:submit_response_contract}}

Next, we'll see how we can further configure the many different parameters in a contract call.