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References section specification.

Reference allows link from contract and ask to be exist another contract, identifying be several ways: approved contracts by hashId, contracts from transaction pack - by transactional_id.

Reference set

some_section:
    references:
        - name: contract_wide_unique_name
              type: transactional_or_existing
          transactional_id: trid
              origin: origin_id
          contract_id: existing_approved_contract_id
          required: true
              fields: 
                  - name: field_name
                    value: expected value

Reference check

Fields description: fields is required unless otherwise indicated:

field value
name Some name
type transactional
transactional_id Referenced contract is looking inside transaction (newItems), with matching transactoinal.id, requires type == transactional
contract_id Referenced contract is looking inside ledger by id, should have status approved, not locked. It not required, but it can be in the referencedItems
required true if referenced contract must exist. While check, if refererenced contract was not found, error is adding.
fields Optional, for type == transactional is looking for contract with fields matching with values and formats of specifeid fields
origin Optional. Looking for contratc with matching origin. Contract shoul be included to the transaction as exists, so it copy exist in the transaction pack as references (type == existing) the check it status in the ledger (should be APPROVED), or if type == transactional then should be included to transaction pack as new.
signed_by Optional, array of roles, that should match with signs in the found contracts

References with required = true is checking for exist according with table. If any of references is missing error is adding.

Important! While transaction pack loading, existing items (referencedItems) includes as binary, and it hashId calculates by fact state. Father checking for that contract not need: if by calculated hashId has approve from ledger, we no need to check sign in it.