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Since metadata v14 and scale-info were introduced, the runtime fully specifies all runtime interfaces and types. On the RPC side however the rpc_methods only returns the list of methods exposed, without any type details for them. This basically means that a mapping from these names to actual definitions are maintained in various SDKs.

There is also a version flag in this RPC response so it must mean it is somehow upgradable.

So my question is: are there plans and/or ongoing work to make these fully described with parameters and return types ala metadata-v14-for-rpcs.

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This is definitely a feature we have in mind, however at the moment there are no plans to implement it in the immediate future.

I have created an issue for it in Substrate: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/11181, so keep an eye on that for any updates, and add any comments/suggestions you may have.

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  • Thank you! Will subscribe to the issue above.
    – Xiu Hung
    Apr 7, 2022 at 10:22
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https://polkadot.js.org/docs/api/examples/promise/typegen/ might be exactly what you need to get started. Types are fully described, from the getMetadata endpoint:

js API interface: api.rpc.state.getMetadata
jsonrpc: state_getMetadata

Note the value returned by the RPC is SCALE encoded, and needs to be decoded for you use.

subxt is a good reference and for a simple CLI implementation decoding the output, subsee is great too

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  • Thank you. However the answer misses the question - I know how this applies to the runtime itself. However, the types for the params and the results are not specified for rpc_methods which is what this question relates to. Since we have the full type mapping now for the runtime, we should have it for RPC as well. A good example is the JS API which you linked - it has to do a manual mapping of all RPCs, e.g. this is for api.rpc.chain.* in the JS API).
    – Xiu Hung
    Apr 7, 2022 at 6:37

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