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Don't use SSZ in RPC request/response wrappers

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Matthew Slipper 2019-04-20 17:26:07 -07:00
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@ -39,32 +39,36 @@ To facilitate RPC-over-`libp2p`, a single protocol name is used: `/eth/serenity/
Remote method calls are wrapped in a "request" structure:
```
(
id: uint64
method_id: uint16
body: Request
)
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ id (uint64) +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| method_id (uint16) | body_len (uint32) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | body (body_len bytes) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
```
and their corresponding responses are wrapped in a "response" structure:
```
(
id: uint64
response_code: uint16
result: bytes
)
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ id (uint64) +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| response_code (uint16) | result_len (uint32) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | result (result_len bytes) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
```
If an error occurs, a variant of the response structure is returned:
```
(
id: uint64
response_code: uint16
result: bytes
)
```
Note that the above structures are NOT encoded as SSZ but rather as sequences of bytes according to the packet diagrams above. This is because SSZ does not support structures without an explicit schema. Since the `body` and `result` fields depend on the value of `method_id` and `response_code`, a schema for the above structure cannot be known beforehand.
The details of the RPC-Over-`libp2p` protocol are similar to [JSON-RPC 2.0](https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification). Specifically: