Address aliases are mappings between easy to type (and tab complete!) names and Ethereum addresses. If you define aliases for the addresses you use frequently, you should very rarely have to copy and paste long, error-prone hex addresses.
Address alias mappings are defined within, and so scoped to, an sbt-ethereum shoebox database. Typically, this means a user has access to all address aliases she has defined from any sbt-ethereum project she works with on a single machine (and from a single user’s account).
Address aliases are scoped to EIP-155 Chain IDs. So an address alias defined in a mainnet session (Chain ID 1) will not be available in a Ropsten session (Chain ID 3). See ethNodeChainId* for information on how to manage which chain your session addresses.
Usage:
> ethAddressAliasCheck <address-alias-or-hex-address>
When an address alias is provided, prints the hex address that alias references.
When a hex address is provided, prints the address aliases known in the shoebox database for that address.
Example 1:
> ethAddressAliasCheck fortune
The alias 'fortune' points to address '0x82ea8ab1e836272322f376a5f71d5a34a71688f1'.
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Jan 4, 2019 11:16:49 PM
Example 2:
> ethAddressAliasCheck 0x82ea8ab1e836272322f376a5f71d5a34a71688f1
The address '0x82ea8ab1e836272322f376a5f71d5a34a71688f1' is associated with aliases ['fortune', 'fortune3'].
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Jan 4, 2019 11:17:44 PM
Usage:
> ethAddressAliasDrop <address-alias>
Removes the mapping of an address alias to a hex address from the sbt-ethereum shoebox database.
Example:
> ethAddressAliasDrop fortune
[info] Alias 'fortune' successfully dropped (for chain with ID 1).
[info] Refreshing caches.
[success] Total time: 1 s, completed Jan 4, 2019 11:41:13 PM
Usage:
> ethAddressAliasList
Lists all mappings of an address alias to a hex Ethereum address defined in the sbt-ethereum shoebox database.
Example:
> ethAddressAliasList
default-sender -> 0x1144f4f7aad0c463c667e0f8d73fc13f1e7e86a2
fortune -> 0x82ea8ab1e836272322f376a5f71d5a34a71688f1
fortune3 -> 0x82ea8ab1e836272322f376a5f71d5a34a71688f1
secondary-address -> 0x13e3d8d785cdeb1d18f298dcf07ea35a659e157d
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Jan 4, 2019 11:46:37 PM
Usage:
> ethAddressAliasSet <new-alias> <address-as-hex-or-ens-or-alias>
Defines a new alias and point it to an address, which may be specified as a hex Ethereum address, via an ENS name, or an already existing address alias.
Examples:
> ethAddressAliasSet fortune 0x82ea8ab1e836272322f376a5f71d5a34a71688f1
> ethAddressAliasSet fortune fortune3
> ethAddressAliasSet fortune fount-of-wisdom.eth
Example response:
[info] Alias 'fortune' now points to address '0x82ea8ab1e836272322f376a5f71d5a34a71688f1' (for chain with ID 1).
[info] Refreshing caches.
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Jan 4, 2019 11:42:35 PM