Draft: Contrib: add Taquito-rpc-bin placeholder
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STATUS: Do not merge, we are checking licensing information and compatibility.
Context
Build a package that may replace taquito-rpc, using binary RPC instead of Json RPC.
This MR firstly contains a copy of the NPM package named taquito-rpc. That copy has been pruned to some extent and renamed taquito-rpc-bin.
The intention is to use kaitai to provide functions to decode binary data provided by the node (instead of json data).
If this is successful, Taquito will have a new feature: query the node using binary RPC instead of Json RPC.
Some clear expected consequences are:
- the queried node may treat more requests (because binary RPC requires less from the node, both in terms of computing power and in terms of network usage)
- the Javascript client will have a greater load (because it'll have to decode binary into Javascript, instead of being able to directly use Json data). However it is expected that a JavaScript client never performs enough RPC requests for that load increase to be problematic.
Once the JavaScript bindings are available, we can start using those to finish building taquito-rpc-bin.
Manually testing the MR
Checklist
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Edited by Raphaël Proust