Weekly update 2021-02-11

[frol]

Last week update is here: #3910

Done

• meta: The new public nodes that include archival data starting from genesis available serving JSON RPC (kudos to @mhalambek 🎉):
  • https://archival-rpc.mainnet.near.org
  • https://archival-rpc.testnet.near.org
• nearcore:
  • JSON RPC Structured Errors: drafted a refactoring to query refactor(jsonrpc): Add structured errors to query method in ViewClient and RPC #3944 (@khorolets)
  • Exposed new JSON RPC method EXPERIMENTAL_protocol_config to fetch latest nearcore Protocol Config (similar to EXPERIMENTAL_genesis_config) feat(rpc): add protocol config rpc endpoint #3919 (kudos to @bowenwang1996 🎉)
• indexer: nearcore compilation errors on Indexer implementations were resolved (Explorer, Wallet, partners) (@frol and @khorolets collaborated with the partners 🎉)

Plans

• nearcore:
  • Keep working on the structured errors in the view-client: query and broadcast_tx_* endpoints (@khorolets)
  • Log timed out JSON RPC request body to simplify investigations (@frol)
  • Guard query(view_state) JSON RPC endpoint rejecting the calls to the accounts with "big" state (storage usage > N bytes) (@frol)
• meta: Series of posts on Indexer Framework are in the works (@khorolets)