ETH API: Remix not able to estimate gas because of missing support for block and state override params

[maciejwitowski]

Checklist

• This is not a security-related bug/issue. If it is, please follow please follow the security policy.
• I have searched on the issue tracker and the lotus forum, and there is no existing related issue or discussion.
• I am running the Latest release, the most recent RC(release canadiate) for the upcoming release or the dev branch(master), or have an issue updating to any of these.
• I did not make any code changes to lotus.

Lotus component

• lotus daemon - chain sync
• lotus fvm/fevm - Lotus FVM and FEVM interactions
• lotus miner/worker - sealing
• lotus miner - proving(WindowPoSt/WinningPoSt)
• lotus JSON-RPC API
• lotus message management (mpool)
• Other

Lotus Version

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Repro Steps

1. Go to https://remix.ethereum.org/
2. Try to deploy any contract
3. You will see this error
   

Describe the Bug

The error comes from the fact that Remix started passing block and/or state override params to geth API to estimate gas which ETH API in Lotus doesn't support

Logging Information

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[longfeiWan9]

This also affects hardhat. It will fail to deploy and invoke smart contracts using hardhat.

[cxytz01]

https://filecoinproject.slack.com/archives/C017HM9BJ8Z/p1700823496984119

I also met the bug -- when using the abigen tool to generate the Golang code, it will fail when calling a contract function.

[jinqiao0423]

Please have a fix soon, this one affects a lot of features

[maciejwitowski]

FYI We are going to work on it this week.

[cryshado]

This also affects hardhat. It will fail to deploy and invoke smart contracts using hardhat.

I agree, is an actual problem. I'm using "hardhat": "^2.19.1"

[maciejwitowski]

@cxytz01 @cryshado @jinqiao0423 The fix has just been deployed to Glif nodes (https://api.node.glif.io)

[jinqiao0423]

@cxytz01 @cryshado @jinqiao0423 The fix has just been deployed to Glif nodes (https://api.node.glif.io)

Seems also applied on https://api.calibration.node.glif.io/rpc/v1
Thank you!