Get smart contract bytecode

A query that returns the bytecode for a smart contract instance**.** Anyone can request the byte code of a smart contract instance on the network. Queries do not change the state of the smart contract or require network consensus. The information is returned from a single node processing the query.

Query Signing Requirements

• The client operator account's private key (fee payer) is required to sign this query

Query Fees

• Please see the transaction and query fees table for the base transaction fee

• Please use the Hedera fee estimator to estimate your query fee cost

Methods

Method	Type	Description	Requirements
setContractId(<contractId>)	ContractId	The ID of the contract to return the bytecode for	Required

Java

//Create the query
ContractByteCodeQuery query = new ContractByteCodeQuery()
    .setContractId(contractId);

//Sign with the client operator private key and submit to a Hedera network
ByteString bytecode = query.execute(client);

JavaScript

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Get query values

Method	Type	Description	Requirements
getContractId(<contractId>)	ContractId	Get the contract ID on the transaction	Required

Java

//Create the query
ContractByteCodeQuery query = new ContractByteCodeQuery()
    .setContractId(newContractId);

//Get the contract ID
query.getContractId()

//v2.0.0

JavaScript

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