Any plan to support custom parameters to init_module()?

[0x-j]

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Currently, if we want to set up some configuration, say the admin address for one that is not the publisher, we need to call an extra function after the module is published.

If we allow passing in custom parameters to init_module() then we don't need the extra function call.

What error, if any, are you getting?

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What have you tried or looked at? Or how can we reproduce the error?

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Which operating system are you using?

macOS

Which SDK or tool are you using? (if any)

Aptos CLI

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[0x-j]

Maybe this is a limitation of static dispatch?

[0x-j]

Ok I think we can achieve by setting the creator address in Move.toml and it will be in named address and we access it via @creator_address in the contract.

But that doesn't solve the problem of we want to pass number or other things to init.

[gregnazario]

Any other inputs that are passed at creation time for init_module, can be inlined into the code, so it's very rare that there's anything that can't be worked around.

const MY_NUM: u8 = 0;

fun init_module() {
  // Can the devs do something?
  do_something(MY_NUM);
}

fun do_something(num: u8) {
  // ...
}

[0x-j]

but that requires us to hardcode a bunch of things just for init