Can't request to my Custom RPC with an Enum

Question

I'm trying to create a custom RPC for my pallet. I've followed Substrate Recipes (I know it's outdated but helped a lot) and pallet_transaction for Runtime API and RPC.

My first RPC, profile_getSum, works as expected. However, profile_getProProfiles has 2 params, and has an error when I try to request.

api.rpc.profile.getProProfiles("0x00", "toronto")

What I've Tried:

const profession = api.createType('ProfilePrimitivesProfession', 'None');

• api.rpc.profile.getProProfiles("None", "toronto")
• api.rpc.profile.getProProfiles(profession.toHex(), "toronto")
• api.rpc.profile.getProProfiles(profession.toRawType(), "toronto")

#[rpc]
pub trait ProfileStorageApi<BlockHash, Hash> {
    #[rpc(name = "profile_getSum")]
    fn get_sum(&self, at: Option<BlockHash>) -> Result<u8>;

    #[rpc(name = "profile_getProProfiles")]
    fn get_pro_profiles(
        &self,
        at: Option<BlockHash>,
        profession: Profession,
        area: Vec<u8>,
    ) -> Result<Vec<Profile<Hash>>>;
}

#[derive(Encode, Decode, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, sp_core::RuntimeDebug, TypeInfo)]
#[cfg_attr(feature = "std", derive(Serialize, Deserialize))]
pub enum Profession { None, Doctor, Writer }

2022-03-04 16:51:15.760 TRACE ThreadId(82) rpc: Request: {"id":65,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"profile_getProProfiles","params":["None","0x746f726f6e746f"]}.    
2022-03-04 16:51:15.760 TRACE ThreadId(82) rpc_metrics: [ws] profile_getProProfiles call: MethodCall(MethodCall { jsonrpc: Some(V2), method: "profile_getProProfiles", params: Array([String("None"), String("0x746f726f6e746f")]), id: Num(65) })
2022-03-04 16:51:15.760 DEBUG tokio-runtime-worker rpc_metrics: [ws] profile_getProProfiles call took 98 μs
2022-03-04 16:51:15.760 DEBUG tokio-runtime-worker rpc: Response: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32602,"message":"Invalid params: invalid length 4, expected a (both 0x-prefixed or not) hex string with length of 64."},"id":65}.

Update

I've come across Subsocial's node. Since it has similar RPC methods (having an enum parameter in the runtime-api) with mine it would be a good example.

Subsocial's FlatPostKind enum

#[derive(Encode, Decode, Ord, PartialOrd, Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
#[cfg_attr(feature = "std", derive(Serialize, Deserialize))]
pub enum FlatPostKind {
    RegularPost,
    Comment,
    SharedPost
}

RPC method

#[rpc(name = "posts_getPublicPosts")]
fn get_public_posts(
    &self,
    at: Option<BlockHash>,
    kind_filter: Vec<FlatPostKind>,
    start_id: u64,
    limit: u16
) -> Result<Vec<FlatPost<AccountId, BlockNumber>>>;

As seen in the fn get_public_posts, it has a parameter that has a type of Vec<FlatPostKind>.

Still can't get a successful response. I believe it's not on @polkadotjs/api side but rather how I try to query.

burak@burak-pc:~$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id":"2", "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "posts_getPublicPosts", "params":[["RegularPost"], "0", "1"]}' http://localhost:9934

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32602,"message":"Invalid params: invalid type: sequence, expected a 0x-prefixed hex string with length of 64."},"id":"2"}

Answer 1

The api docs of enums is worth a review I think. If your chain uses metadata v14, the metadata itself specifies the types completely, no need for manual definitions FYI, we highly suggest the update to include scale-info added here. (Manual enum specification is there currently for historic blocks) Note you must annotate your enum to be included in the metadata, for example:

#[derive(Clone, Encode, Decode, RuntimeDebug, TypeInfo)]
pub enum PreimageStatus<AccountId, Balance, BlockNumber> {...}

I notice a mismatch in your getProProfiles api call and the fn get_pro_profiles declaration as well, 2 vs. 3 parameters. Likely just need to specify all uniformly before you try again? I believe None is explicitly needed in the api call if you are looking for the Option to be correctly sent over the wire.