For example, there's a FRAME pallet called Remark which does one thing: it allows storing data in externalities that can access the node's storage via a runtime interface. If integrated into a runtime, this would enable any user to call a signed extrinsic that stores some data off-chain. To do this, it makes use of a host function declared in sp_io called transaction_index::index.
As I understand it, it just stores an index of calls on the client's storage, which correspond to some Option<Hash>. This is done by primitives::state_machine::storage_index_transaction. What's not clear to me is that the function it calls is unimplemented:
pub trait Externalities: ExtensionStore {
// -- snip --
/// Index specified transaction slice and store it.
fn storage_index_transaction(&mut self, _index: u32, _hash: &[u8], _size: u32) {
unimplemented!("storage_index_transaction");
}
}
How does transaction indexing work here and what is the intended purpose of having this?
