With contract given, how to retrieve abi out of it?

[emclab]

With a contract given, is there a way to retrieve abi code out of it?

The contract is generated with deploy address, its abi and wallet as below:

let contract = new ethers.Contract(deploy_address, abi, wallet);

The app also has access to the abi code in string format. But the abi code in string format seems daunting hard (not sure if possible) to be converted back to array it represents. There is interface in contract but I am not sure if it is the same as abi code.

The abi will be used like below:

const events = abi.filter(obj => obj.type ? obj.type === "event" : false);

[zemse]

Can you check out contract.interface.fragments if that works

[emclab]

Here is the output. events1 is from contract.interface.fragments. events is from the abi code in array format. They are not exactly the same. I am trying to retrieve logs associated with the contract.

events1 :  [
  EventFragment {
    name: 'Approval',
    anonymous: false,
    inputs: [ [ParamType], [ParamType], [ParamType] ],
    type: 'event',
    _isFragment: true
  },
  EventFragment {
    name: 'Transfer',
    anonymous: false,
    inputs: [ [ParamType], [ParamType], [ParamType] ],
    type: 'event',
    _isFragment: true
  }
]
events in log :  [
  {
    anonymous: false,
    inputs: [ [Object], [Object], [Object] ],
    name: 'Approval',
    type: 'event'
  },
  {
    anonymous: false,
    inputs: [ [Object], [Object], [Object] ],
    name: 'Transfer',
    type: 'event'
  }
]

[zemse]

only addition I am seeing here is _isFragment: true, if you're using with ethers that should still work fine