Hi, Apologies if asked before (I could not find it) … is there a maximum size of data that can be placed in a template? thanks

Hi @Jean_Safar , Welcome to the forum :wave: There is no limitation as per the DAML ledger model. There are other technical limitations though. The RPC protocol used for the ledger api (gRPC) specifies a maximum message size that defaults to ~4MB. So both client and ledger need to be configured to…

Thanks a lot @gerolf , All my data is indeed serializable … Not being able to store it inside a template complexifies the architecture. I need to Hash the data and store it separately and in essence create an indirection when trying to access the data, which eventually will impact performance. Best…

Thanks - I did see (word missing :-() this post indeed-

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gerolf June 3, 2020, 7:48am 4

Bernhard just posted a nice post that might be interesting to you.

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