Add GETH Method: "getRawTransaction"

[ykwwZero]

Is it possible to provide some quick guidance/instructions on how we can add the GETH getRawTransaction method to perhaps the provider class, similar to this for web3.js: https://www.tutorialfor.com/blog-244923.htm

I'm guessing it's not a commonly used method, hence the request for some help adding it to my local version instead of including it in the main release.

[ricmoo]

Can you include an example of the output of that call? Is it just the serialized transaction?

[ykwwZero]

Yes sir just the (RLP?) serialized signed transaction like: https://etherscan.io/getRawTx?tx=0x3866bd52ab1273b9b014e81f981fb35e6b1ec3254514e09c604921ecc17a6ad6

[ykwwZero]

The GETH call is eth.getRawTransaction("HASH")

[ricmoo]

So, this is not something I'm likely going to add to the BaseProvider. The goal of the Provider object is to provide a high-level interface to commonly used, base methods.

If you have a JsonRpcProvider (or sub-class), you can use the provider.send("eth_getRawTransactionByBlockHash", [ hash ]) directly. But you could also compute this using the utils.serializeTransaction method with the transaction response (you would need to pass in both the TX components for the unsigned and signed parameters).

Does that make sense?

[ykwwZero]

Thanks will play with this!