Use weiroll to batch process multiple eth_call requests in a single RPC call

[TimDaub]

• [email protected] adds weiroll support
• technically, this means that if we had an eth_call to weiroll call converter, then we could take some of the eth_calls in the queue, convert them to weiroll calls and hence save network requests
• the idea is that network requests are slow as they have roundtrip time, latency etc. and so batching network requests seems like a good idea
• potentially, if we're generically translating eth_calls to weiroll calls then we should consider natively implementing it in eth-fun
• so I may need to transfer this issue there.

[il3ven]

Some thoughts about weiroll in general:

If we are to generically translate all RPC calls to weiroll then won't we be better off just using weiroll.js?

In case we want to keep it lean and just translate eth_calls then also it seems like a lot of work. This is coming from a person who just started to learn weiroll so maybe I am wrong. To reduce our work and solve the problem we can use the batch functionality of JSON RPC. It's the simplest. (Edit: Found #45)

Weiroll has a disadvantage when compared to batch JSON RPC requests. If one eth_call fails in weiroll then all the calls will fail. This can happen if we provided a wrong tokenID to one of the eth_call in the batch. This doesn't happen in JSON RPC.

[TimDaub]

• weiroll.js is unfortunately a stateful transaction builder and we don't like stateful software
• I'm not sure if translating from eth_calls to weiroll calls is a lot of work, it could be that it's quite lean
• alchemy and other cloudproviders treat batch requests badly as you can see in Implement JSON-RPC batch support #45
• I think a lot of people would appreciate a eth_call to weiroll_call function

Weiroll has a disadvantage when compared to batch JSON RPC requests. If one eth_call fails in weiroll then all the calls will fail. This can happen if we provided a wrong tokenID to one of the eth_call in the batch. This doesn't happen in JSON RPC.

Nice take actually, I hadn't considered this.