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I would like to determine the number of blocks produced in a given era index.
In polkadot.app there is a query to get reward points in an era:
Staking Query: erasRewardsPoints(EraIndex).
How can I determine the number of blocks produced in one specific Era? Is there any query for that? If not, if I traverse the blocks, is the Era index included in the block data? I can not find it.
Thanks very much.
If not, if I traverse the blocks, is the Era index included in the block data?
Right, the era is not in the block data itself, so you'd have to fetch each block. At the end of each era, end_era gets called and emits an EraPaid event. You can use this as the boundary between eras, and if you check the block height of the event for era N against N - 1 then you get the number of blocks in era N.
EraPaid events and block height at which each is emitted. For future eras, the best you can do is predict a maximum block number for the start of a future era. Since block production slots may be skipped, the actual block number when that future era starts could be lower.
Dec 19, 2022 at 12:35
EraPaid events for past eras? Actually, I am going to index events for selected past era, so I need to know start, end block number of selected era. Could you explain in detail?
Dec 19, 2022 at 17:26