update 1.0.12

setup.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="thor-devkit",
-    version="1.0.11",
+    version="1.0.12",
     author="laalaguer",
     author_email="[email protected]",
     description="SDK to interact with VeChain Thor public blockchain.",

tests/test_transaction.py

@@ -238,4 +238,13 @@ def test_unused():
 
     reserved_list = delegated_tx_3._encode_reserved()
     assert reserved_list == [bytes.fromhex("01"), bytes.fromhex("0F0F")]
-    assert transaction.Transaction.decode(delegated_tx_3.encode(), True) == delegated_tx_3
+    assert transaction.Transaction.decode(delegated_tx_3.encode(), True) == delegated_tx_3
+
+def test_body_copy():
+    b1 = copy.deepcopy(body)
+    tx = transaction.Transaction(b1)
+    b2 = tx.get_body(False)
+    b3 = tx.get_body(True)
+
+    assert id(b2) != id(b3) # id should be different
+    assert b2 == b3 # content should be the same

thor_devkit/transaction.py

@@ -166,6 +166,22 @@ def __init__(self, body: dict):
         ''' Construct a transaction from a given body. '''
         self.body = BODY(body)
         self.signature = None
+
+    def get_body(self, as_copy:bool = True):
+        '''
+        Get a dict of the body represents the transaction.
+        If as_copy, return a newly created dict.
+        If not, return the body used in this Transaction object.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        as_copy : bool, optional
+            Return a new dict clone of the body, by default True
+        '''
+        if as_copy:
+            return deepcopy(self.body)
+        else:
+            return self.body
 
     def _encode_reserved(self) -> List:
         r = self.body.get('reserved', None)