Need a lower level request api to get MethodResponse

[0xForerunner]

I want to create a rpc proxy layer.

Basic flow is this:

Receive method A

Forward Method A to multiple endpoints

Return MethodResponse from call in RpcServiceT.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems there's no good way to get a MethodResponse from RpcClient::request.

Solution for this would perhaps be RpcClient::request_raw which would return the lower level response before trying to deserialize.

[niklasad1]

Sorry, #1521 is still not merged.

Yeah, you have good point but the MethodResponse was introduced a concrete to a method response from the server-side using it in the client isn't really optimal out-of-the-box.

The idea is not to return MethodResponse from client traits but use MethodResponse or something similar in the client RpcServiceT implementations when it's a thingy. See #1521 for further info.

I'm a bit ambivalent of it because of the annoying conversations between different "forced" representations internally...

[0xForerunner]

Haha all good @niklasad1 :)

using it in the client isn't really optimal out-of-the-box.

Yeah I think it's currently impossible unfortunately.

I didn't really realize it but yeah it seems this PR might solve the problem. Since I'm assuming the HttpClient will impl RpcServiceT, we should just be able to use call directly to acquire the MethodResponse.

I'm a bit ambivalent of it because of the annoying conversations between different "forced" representations internally

Not quite sure what you mean here, are you saying you don't like forced conversions into MethodResponse? Perhaps a work around would be passing around values that impl TryInto<MethodResponse>

[niklasad1]

Not quite sure what you mean here, are you saying you don't like forced conversions into MethodResponse? Perhaps a work around would be passing around values that impl TryInto

I mean that that we will most likely make Response an associated type in the RpcServiceT and use different types for the client/server. Not require the explicit MethodResponse type.

[niklasad1]

@0xForerunner #1521 is close now and would be good if you could take a look this example if it's sufficient for your usecase :)

[0xForerunner]

@niklasad1 yeah this looks awesome. Should be exactly what I need.

[niklasad1]

Closed by #1521