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Understanding the Type Language
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`Telegram's Type Language <https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/TL>`__
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(also known as TL, found on ``.tl`` files) is a concise way to define
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what other programming languages commonly call classes or structs.
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Every definition is written as follows for a Telegram object is defined
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as follows:
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``name#id argument_name:argument_type = CommonType``
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This means that in a single line you know what the ``TLObject`` name is.
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You know it's unique ID, and you know what arguments it has. It really
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isn't that hard to write a generator for generating code to any
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platform!
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The generated code should also be able to *encode* the ``TLObject`` (let
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this be a request or a type) into bytes, so they can be sent over the
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network. This isn't a big deal either, because you know how the
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``TLObject``\ 's are made, and how the types should be serialized.
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You can either write your own code generator, or use the one this
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library provides, but please be kind and keep some special mention to
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this project for helping you out.
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This is only a introduction. The ``TL`` language is not *that* easy. But
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it's not that hard either. You're free to sniff the
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``telethon_generator/`` files and learn how to parse other more complex
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lines, such as ``flags`` (to indicate things that may or may not be
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written at all) and ``vector``\ 's.
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