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I'm trying to consume a UTxO from a script address. When querying the script address with cardano-cli query utxo, I have the following UTxO:

                           TxHash                                 TxIx        Amount
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10668bed901733bb0977ec72d1abad481865b34ea1c18302caaaa1eafe5784d2     1        1344798 lovelace + TxOutDatumNone

However, when constructing a transaction, I do not know how to represent TxOutDatumNone:

cardano-cli transaction build \
--alonzo-era \
...
--tx-in 10668bed901733bb0977ec72d1abad481865b34ea1c18302caaaa1eafe5784d2#1 \
--tx-in-datum-value WHAT_TO_PUT_HERE \
...

What I've tried:

  • Not passing the --tx-in-datum-value altogether results in:

Missing: (--tx-in-datum-file FILE | --tx-in-datum-value JSON VALUE)

  • Passing --tx-in-datum-value 0 results in:

Command failed: transaction build Error: The following scripts have execution failures: the script for transaction input 0 (in the order of the TxIds) failed with: The Plutus script witness for the txin does not have a script datum (according to the UTxO). The txin in question is 10668bed901733bb0977ec72d1abad481865b34ea1c18302caaaa1eafe5784d2#1

  • Passing --tx-in-datum-value null results in:

option --tx-in-datum-value: JSON schema error within the script data: null JSON null values are not supported.

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I'm afraid that presenting a "none" datum is not possible. This also means that this UtxO is lost (anybody, correct me if I'm wrong)

I don't know the very reason why it is possible to send a UtxO at a script address without datum hash, while at the same time it will not be possible to get it back. Anyway, pay attention to always send a datum hash when sending some value at a script address.

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  • I'm leaning to think that's the case as well. But haven't been able to find a definite reference yet.
    – Jaanus Varus
    Jan 10, 2022 at 15:15
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    Found a confirmation to the statement here: github.com/input-output-hk/Alonzo-testnet/blob/…
    – Jaanus Varus
    Jan 12, 2022 at 16:54
  • The reason for this is that in addition to Plutus scripts, there are also native scripts (which predate Plutus), and those don't require a datum. It's impossible to know, given just an address, whether a script address corresponds to a Plutus script or to a native script. Therefore the node can't enforce that UTxO's at Plutus script addresses always have a datum attached.
    – Lars Brünjes
    Mar 7 at 17:57
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Usually when you want to pass empty datum to the script you'd pass an empty list like so

--tx-in-datum-value []
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  • This gives me a similar error as passing 0: Command failed: transaction build Error: The following scripts have execution failures: the script for transaction input 0 (in the order of the TxIds) failed with: The Plutus script witness for the txin does not have a script datum (according to the UTxO). The txin in question is 10668bed901733bb0977ec72d1abad481865b34ea1c18302caaaa1eafe5784d2#1
    – Jaanus Varus
    Jan 10, 2022 at 15:10
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You can ignore it. You do not need to account for TxOutDatumNone in your tx-out or anywhere else. See for yourself by manually sending a TX using cli before you script it.

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  • Do you mean not to pass the --tx-in-datum-value option to the cardano-cli transaction build command? Or did you have something else in mind?
    – Jaanus Varus
    Jan 10, 2022 at 15:14
  • Correct. It's not a required parameter, so if you aren't using it (which it doesn't sound like you are), then ignore it..? EDIT: I see now that you say you've tried this and are getting an error which baffles me - I send hundreds of CLI transactions a day and have never seen that error come up. Are you able to provide your draft cli command TX?
    – Tygar Pool
    Jan 10, 2022 at 15:34
  • Correct that I'm not using the datum. It seems to me that either of the datum options still has to be specified because the transaction is consuming a UTxO from a Plutus script address. The full command and accompanying script can be found at: gist.github.com/discosultan/c03a1ea29d8b3bec8b2825c8fd879afa
    – Jaanus Varus
    Jan 10, 2022 at 15:53

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