Approval Application On Create: Accessing Application Arguments. Not possible?

[mangoplane]

Hi,

When handling the on-create method, by checking if the application index is 0, how do you access the application arguments to initialize things dynamically? There's no such property on transaction. It would make sense to expose these app args as a list of byte[] as with PyTeal.

protected override int ApprovalProgram(in AppCallTransactionReference transaction)

Another alternative, which would be neater than if logic that catches the common lifecycle stages of a contract like create/update/delete, is to handle these stages by linting functions with attributes like the following that will take care of initialization:

[SmartContractOnCreate]
[SmartContractOnUpdate]
[SmartContractOnDelete]

This linting approach would be ideal. It is very important you don't sacrifice too much flexibility in what can be made, otherwise it becomes very limiting and many applications aren't possible. So it's a kind of balancing act.

Kind regards.