# Terra Bindings for CosmWasm
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This crate provides Terra-specific bindings to enable your CosmWasm smart contracts to interact with the Terra blockchain by exposing messages and queriers that can be emitted and used from within your contract.
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## Installation
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Add the following to your smart contract's `Cargo.toml`:
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```toml
[dependencies]
terra_cosmwasm = { version = "1.0" }
```
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## Contents
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Currently, the Terra bindings include:
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- Query support for:
  - Market
    - swap rate between 2 currencies at market price
  - Treasury
    - current tax cap for a denomination
    - current tax rate 
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- Messages
  - `MsgSwap`
  - `MsgSwapSend`
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## Usage
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### Querying
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In order to use the query functions enabled by the bindings, create a `TerraQuerier` instance within your contract logic -- in either `init()`, `handle()`, or `query()` entrypoints. You can access all the enabled queries through this object.
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```rust
// src/contract.rs
use cosmwasm_std::Coin;
use terra_bindings::TerraQuerier;
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...
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// handler
pub fn try_something<S: Storage, A: Api, Q: Querier>(
    deps: &mut Extern<S, A, Q>,
    env: Env,
    offer: &Coin
) -> StdResult<HandleResponse> {
    let querier = TerraQuerier::new(&deps.querier);
    let swap_rate: Coin = querier.query_swap(offer.clone(), "uusd")?;
    let tax_cap: Uint128 = querier.query_tax_cap("")?;
    let tax_rate: Uint128 = querier.query_tax_rate()?;
    ...
}
```
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## Creating Messages
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**NOTE:** The Terra bindings do not cover messages that have already been implemented by the CosmWasm team, such as staking-related messages and fundamental ones like `MsgSend`.
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You may want your contract to perform messages such as `MsgSwap` and `MsgSwapSend` operations at the end of its execution. To do this, create a message using the predefined functions:
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- `create_swap_msg`
- `create_swap_send_msg`
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And add it to the vector of `messages` in your `HandleResponse` before you return `Ok`.
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```rust
use cosmwasm_std::CosmosMsg;
use terra_cosmwasm::{create_swap_msg, TerraMsgWrapper};
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...
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pub fn try_something<S: Storage, A: Api, Q: Querier>(
    deps: &mut Extern<S, A, Q>,
    env: Env,
    offer: &Coin
) -> StdResult<HandleResponse<TerraMsgWrapper>> {
    ...
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    let msg: CosmosMsg<TerraMsgWrapper> = create_swap_msg(contract_addr, offer_coin, ask_denom);
    let res = HandleResponse {
        messages: vec![msg],
        log: vec![],
        data: None
    };
    Ok(res)
}
```