Delete a smart contract
A transaction that deletes a smart contract from a Hedera network. Once a smart contract is marked deleted, you will not be able to modify any of the contract's properties. **** If a smart contract did not have an admin key defined, you cannot delete the smart contract. You can verify the smart contract was deleted by submitting a smart contract info query to the network. If a smart contract has an associated hbar balance, you will need to transfer the balance to another Hedera account.
Transaction Signing Requirements
- If the admin key was defined for the smart contract it is required to sign the transaction.
- The client operator's (fee payer account) private key is required to sign the transaction.
Transaction Fees
- Please see the transaction and query NextCall a smart contract function table for base transaction fee
Method | Type | Description | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
setContractId(<contractId>) | Sets the contract ID (x.z.y) which should be deleted. | Required | |
setTransferAccountId(<transferAccountId>) | Sets the account ID (x.z.y) which will receive all remaining hbars | Optional | |
setTransferContractId(<contractId>) | Sets the contract ID (x.z.y) which will receive all remaining hbars. | Optional |
Java
JavaScript
Go
//Create the transaction
ContractDeleteTransaction transaction = new ContractDeleteTransaction()
.setContractId(contractId);
//Freeze the transaction for signing, sign with the admin key on the contract, sign with the client operator private key and submit to a Hedera network
TransactionResponse txResponse = transaction.freezeWith(client).sign(adminKey).execute(client);
//Get the receipt of the transaction
TransactionReceipt receipt = txResponse.getReceipt(client);
//Get the transaction consensus status
Status transactionStatus = receipt.status;
System.out.println("The transaction consensus status is " +transactionStatus);
//v2.0.0
//Create the transaction
const transaction = await new ContractDeleteTransaction()
.setContractId(contractId)
.freezeWith(client);
//Sign with the admin key on the contract
const signTx = await transaction.sign(adminKey)
//Sign the transaction with the client operator's private key and submit to a Hedera network
const txResponse = await signTx.execute(client);
//Get the receipt of the transaction
const receipt = await txResponse.getReceipt(client);
//Get the transaction consensus status
const transactionStatus = receipt.status;
console.log("The transaction consensus status is " +transactionStatus);
//v2.0.5
//Create and freeze the transaction
transaction := hedera.NewContractDeleteTransaction().
SetContractID(contractID)
FreezeWith(client)
//Sign with the admin key on the contract, sign with the client operator private key and submit to a Hedera network
txResponse. err := transaction.Sign(adminKey).Execute(client)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
//Get the receipt of the transaction
receipt, err := txResponse.GetReceipt(client)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
//Get the transaction consensus status
transactionStatus := receipt.Status
fmt.Printf("The transaction consensus status %v\n", transactionStatus)
//v2.0.0
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