diff --git a/contracts/eosiolib/transaction.h b/contracts/eosiolib/transaction.h
index c8d31899a7d..95a41322acc 100644
--- a/contracts/eosiolib/transaction.h
+++ b/contracts/eosiolib/transaction.h
@@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ extern "C" {
     */
     bool has_contract( account_name name);
 
+   /**
+   * Get the code of the deployment contract
+   * @param name : account name
+   * @param code : return contract code
+   */
+   void get_contract_code( account_name name, checksum256* code);
+
    /**
     * Get the producer's signature for the action
     * @param sig : Memory buffer
diff --git a/libraries/chain/wasm_interface.cpp b/libraries/chain/wasm_interface.cpp
index ca896f3ef95..12ff329bd29 100644
--- a/libraries/chain/wasm_interface.cpp
+++ b/libraries/chain/wasm_interface.cpp
@@ -1412,6 +1412,17 @@ class context_free_transaction_api : public context_aware_api {
           return accnt->code.size() > 0;
       }
 
+      void get_contract_code(account_name name, fc::sha256& code ) {
+          const auto accnt  = context.db.find<account_object,by_name>( name );
+          EOS_ASSERT( accnt != nullptr, action_validate_exception, "account '${account}' does not exist", ("account", name) );
+
+          if( accnt->code.size() > 0) {
+              code = fc::sha256::hash( accnt->code.data(), accnt->code.size() );
+          } else {
+              code = fc::sha256();
+          }
+      }
+
       int expiration() {
         return context.trx_context.trx.expiration.sec_since_epoch();
       }
@@ -1953,6 +1964,7 @@ REGISTER_INTRINSICS(context_free_transaction_api,
    (get_transaction_id,     void(int)                )
    (get_action_sequence,    void(int)                )
    (has_contract,           int(int64_t)             )
+   (get_contract_code,      void(int64_t, int)       )
    (expiration,             int()                    )
    (tapos_block_prefix,     int()                    )
    (tapos_block_num,        int()                    )
diff --git a/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.abi b/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.abi
index 167314a5d24..eb3c15c7c13 100644
--- a/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.abi
+++ b/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.abi
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "____comment": "This file was generated by eosio-abigen. DO NOT EDIT - 2018-12-18T11:11:23",
+  "____comment": "This file was generated by eosio-abigen. DO NOT EDIT - 2019-01-07T10:42:22",
   "version": "eosio::abi/1.0",
   "types": [],
   "structs": [{
diff --git a/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.cpp b/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.cpp
index 73cda150dc8..5dc57603d73 100644
--- a/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.cpp
+++ b/unittests/actiondemo/actiondemo.cpp
@@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ namespace spaceaction {
     void actiondemo::hascontract(const args_name& t){
         bool r = has_contract(t.name);
         print_f("% has_contract:%", name{t.name}.to_string(),r);
+
+//        if (r) {
+            checksum256 code;
+            get_contract_code(t.name, &code);
+
+            std::string s = to_hex((char*)&code.hash, 32);
+            print_f("% contract_code:%", name{t.name}.to_string(),s);
+//        }
+
     }
 
     void actiondemo::generate(const args& t){
diff --git a/unittests/actiondemo/test.py b/unittests/actiondemo/test.py
index 6627374173c..e2cb65e06b7 100644
--- a/unittests/actiondemo/test.py
+++ b/unittests/actiondemo/test.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def stepStartWallet():
     importKeys()
     # run('rm -rf  ~/.local/share/eosio/nodeos/data ')
     run("rm -rf  ./data/*")
-    background(args.nodeos + ' -e -p eosio --blocks-dir ./data/block/ --genesis-json %s  --config-dir ./ --data-dir ./data/  --plugin eosio::http_plugin --plugin eosio::chain_api_plugin --plugin eosio::producer_plugin --plugin eosio::history_api_plugin> eos.log 2>&1 &' % args.genesis)
+    background(args.nodeos + ' -e -p eosio --blocks-dir ./data/block/ --genesis-json %s  --config-dir ./ --data-dir ./data/  --plugin eosio::http_plugin --plugin eosio::chain_api_plugin --plugin eosio::producer_plugin --plugin eosio::history_api_plugin  --plugin eosio::history_plugin> eos.log 2>&1 &' % args.genesis)
     run("rm -rf  ./data2/*")
     background(args.nodeos + '  --blocks-dir ./data2/block/ --genesis-json %s  --data-dir ./data2/  --config-dir ./  --p2p-peer-address 127.0.0.1:9876  --http-server-address 0.0.0.0:8001 --p2p-listen-endpoint 0.0.0.0:9001 --plugin eosio::http_plugin --plugin eosio::chain_api_plugin --plugin eosio::producer_plugin --plugin eosio::history_api_plugin > eos2.log 2>&1 &' % args.genesis)
     sleep(30)
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ def createAccounts():
     run(args.cleos + 'set contract eosio.msig ' + args.contracts_dir + 'eosio.msig/')
     run(args.cleos + 'push action eosio.token create \'["eosio", "10000000000.0000 %s"]\' -p eosio.token' % (args.symbol))
     run(args.cleos + 'push action eosio.token issue \'["eosio", "%s %s", "memo"]\' -p eosio' % ("1000000.0000", args.symbol))
+    run(args.cleos + 'push action eosio.token issue \'["%s", "%s %s", "memo"]\' -p eosio' % (args.contract, "1000.0000", args.symbol))
     retry(args.cleos + 'set contract eosio ' + args.contracts_dir + 'eosio.system/ -p eosio')
     sleep(1)
     run(args.cleos + 'push action eosio setpriv' + jsonArg(['eosio.msig', 1]) + '-p eosio@active')
@@ -164,6 +165,7 @@ def stepGetCode():
     run(args.cleos + 'push action %s hascontract \'[{"name":"eosio.token"}]\' -p %s ' %(args.contract,args.contract))
     run(args.cleos + 'push action %s hascontract \'[{"name":"eosio"}]\' -p %s ' %(args.contract,args.contract))
     run(args.cleos + 'push action %s hascontract \'[{"name":"eosio.ram"}]\' -p %s ' %(args.contract,args.contract))
+    run(args.cleos + 'push action %s hascontract \'[{"name":"caeeregright"}]\' -p %s ' %(args.contract,args.contract))
     print ("sleep 5")
 
 
@@ -211,7 +213,7 @@ def stepGetCode():
 
 
 accnum = 26
-accounts = []
+accounts = ['caeeregright']
 # for i in range(97,97+accnum):
 #     accounts.append("user%c"% chr(i))
 # accounts.append("payman")