Hardhat DeFi & Aave ILendingPool

[Subhamdas12]

Actually I have a doubt . We can obtain ILendingPool directly from the documentations like we did in the ILendingPoolAddressProvider ,
then why we need ILendingPoolAddressProvider to obtain ILendingPool as we can get the ILendingPool address also from the documentation of aave...

[krakxn]

@Subhamdas12

This is because it is not so simple as you think.

"Industrial-wide" protocols must be scalable; i.e. tasks must be automated via logic. Everything cannot be done manually and will be very inefficient if so.

In this case, ILendingPoolAddressProvider is a contract (interface) which is used by other contracts for automation and modularity. We cannot scale a use-case like this if the task had to be done manually every time, and will be a recipe for disaster with its inefficiency.

Context for ILendingPoolAddressProvider:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: agpl-3.0
pragma solidity 0.6.12;

/**
 * @title LendingPoolAddressesProvider contract
 * @dev Main registry of addresses part of or connected to the protocol, including permissioned roles
 * - Acting also as factory of proxies and admin of those, so with right to change its implementations
 * - Owned by the Aave Governance
 * @author Aave
 **/
interface ILendingPoolAddressesProvider {
  event MarketIdSet(string newMarketId);
  event LendingPoolUpdated(address indexed newAddress);
  event ConfigurationAdminUpdated(address indexed newAddress);
  event EmergencyAdminUpdated(address indexed newAddress);
  event LendingPoolConfiguratorUpdated(address indexed newAddress);
  event LendingPoolCollateralManagerUpdated(address indexed newAddress);
  event PriceOracleUpdated(address indexed newAddress);
  event LendingRateOracleUpdated(address indexed newAddress);
  event ProxyCreated(bytes32 id, address indexed newAddress);
  event AddressSet(bytes32 id, address indexed newAddress, bool hasProxy);

  function getMarketId() external view returns (string memory);

  function setMarketId(string calldata marketId) external;

  function setAddress(bytes32 id, address newAddress) external;

  function setAddressAsProxy(bytes32 id, address impl) external;

  function getAddress(bytes32 id) external view returns (address);

  function getLendingPool() external view returns (address);

  function setLendingPoolImpl(address pool) external;

  function getLendingPoolConfigurator() external view returns (address);

  function setLendingPoolConfiguratorImpl(address configurator) external;

  function getLendingPoolCollateralManager() external view returns (address);

  function setLendingPoolCollateralManager(address manager) external;

  function getPoolAdmin() external view returns (address);

  function setPoolAdmin(address admin) external;

  function getEmergencyAdmin() external view returns (address);

  function setEmergencyAdmin(address admin) external;

  function getPriceOracle() external view returns (address);

  function setPriceOracle(address priceOracle) external;

  function getLendingRateOracle() external view returns (address);

  function setLendingRateOracle(address lendingRateOracle) external;
}

We import this contract in our ILendingPool contract for its functionality.