Create eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber.md #54
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Aug 12, 2021
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cc @MicahZoltu @timbeiko @marcindsobczak @gnidan @rekmarks @rakitadragan @vorot93 This is a PR for adding edgecases for the proposed method. In particular, an edgecase is defined as any behavior outside of the OpenRPC specification defined in this repository. This needs approval from all 5 clients before it can be merged. This is one method in a slew soon to come. |
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| * If the client has a block equal to the `block_number` parameter it **MUST** return the number of transactions the block conatins, otherwise it **MUST** return null. | |||
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Maybe this is what clients currently do, but it is definitely not what clients should do.
Clients should return a JSON-RPC error if they do not have the block requested. If they do have the requested block, it should always return a number (never null).
In general, the JSON-RPC should be returning errors for error conditions, not returning sentinel values or null for error conditions.