How to encode List when deploying a smart contract through mxpy?

Question

When using the MultiversX SDK, I can pass a list of typed values as a single Input argument to a smart contract deploy, with the method List.fromItems(arrayTypedValue).

How can I encode the same List input when deploying through the mxpy CLI?
Something like mxpy contract deploy ... --arguments <List>.
How do I encode the <List> here?

Answer 1

You need to serialize each variable in the array (according to this documentation) and then send them as a continuous string preceded by 0x which should mark it as an encoded string. For example, the array [1, 1] becomes 0x0000000100000001 which has 3 parts:

• 0x
• 00000001
• 00000001