chore: improve ABI parser and Abigen errors

ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/contract.rs

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ use ethers_core::{
     macros::{ethers_contract_crate, ethers_core_crate, ethers_providers_crate},
     types::Bytes,
 };
-use eyre::{eyre, Context as _, Result};
+use eyre::{eyre, Result};
 use proc_macro2::{Ident, Literal, TokenStream};
 use quote::{format_ident, quote};
 use serde::Deserialize;
@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ impl Context {
         // holds the deployed bytecode parsed from the abi_str, if present
         let mut contract_deployed_bytecode = None;
 
-        let (abi, human_readable, abi_parser) = parse_abi(&abi_str).wrap_err_with(|| {
-            eyre::eyre!("error parsing abi for contract: {}", args.contract_name)
+        let (abi, human_readable, abi_parser) = parse_abi(&abi_str).map_err(|e| {
+            eyre::eyre!("error parsing abi for contract '{}': {e}", args.contract_name)
         })?;
 
         // try to extract all the solidity structs from the normal JSON ABI
@@ -465,16 +465,15 @@ where
 /// Parse the abi via `Source::parse` and return if the abi defined as human readable
 fn parse_abi(abi_str: &str) -> Result<(Abi, bool, AbiParser)> {
     let mut abi_parser = AbiParser::default();
-    let res = if let Ok(abi) = abi_parser.parse_str(abi_str) {
-        (abi, true, abi_parser)
-    } else {
-        // a best-effort coercion of an ABI or an artifact JSON into an artifact JSON.
-        let contract: JsonContract = serde_json::from_str(abi_str)
-            .wrap_err_with(|| eyre::eyre!("failed deserializing abi:\n{}", abi_str))?;
-
-        (contract.into_abi(), false, abi_parser)
-    };
-    Ok(res)
+    match abi_parser.parse_str(abi_str) {
+        Ok(abi) => Ok((abi, true, abi_parser)),
+        Err(e) => match serde_json::from_str::<JsonContract>(abi_str) {
+            Ok(contract) => Ok((contract.into_abi(), false, abi_parser)),
+            Err(e2) => Err(eyre::eyre!(
+                "couldn't parse ABI string as either human readable (1) or JSON (2):\n1. {e}\n2. {e2}"
+            )),
+        },
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Deserialize)]

ethers-core/src/abi/human_readable/mod.rs

@@ -133,17 +133,17 @@ impl AbiParser {
         let mut unresolved = self.structs.keys().collect::<VecDeque<_>>();
         let mut sequential_retries = 0;
         while let Some(name) = unresolved.pop_front() {
-            let mut resolved = true;
+            let mut unresolved_field = None;
             let sol = &self.structs[name];
             let mut tuple = Vec::with_capacity(sol.fields().len());
             for field in sol.fields() {
                 match field.r#type() {
                     FieldType::Elementary(param) => tuple.push(param.clone()),
                     FieldType::Struct(ty) => {
-                        if let Some(param) = self.struct_tuples.get(ty.name()).cloned() {
-                            tuple.push(ty.as_param(ParamType::Tuple(param)))
+                        if let Some(param) = self.struct_tuples.get(ty.name()) {
+                            tuple.push(ty.as_param(ParamType::Tuple(param.clone())))
                         } else {
-                            resolved = false;
+                            unresolved_field = Some(field);
                             break
                         }
                     }
@@ -155,15 +155,15 @@ impl AbiParser {
                     }
                 }
             }
-            if resolved {
-                sequential_retries = 0;
-                self.struct_tuples.insert(sol.name().to_string(), tuple);
-            } else {
+            if let Some(f) = unresolved_field {
                 sequential_retries += 1;
                 if sequential_retries > unresolved.len() {
-                    bail!("No struct definition found for struct `{}`", name)
+                    bail!("Could not resolve field of struct '{name}': `{}: {:?}`", f.name, f.ty)
                 }
                 unresolved.push_back(name);
+            } else {
+                sequential_retries = 0;
+                self.struct_tuples.insert(sol.name().to_string(), tuple);
             }
         }
         Ok(())