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EIP-5219: Contract Resource Requests Source

Allows the requesting of resources from contracts

作者 Pandapip1
讨论-To https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/pr-5219-discussion-contract-rest/9907
状态 Draft
类型 Standards Track
分类 ERC
创建日期 2022-07-10
英文版 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-5219

目录

Abstract

This EIP introduces an interface allowing clients to make resource requests to smart contracts, and to receive HTTP-like responses.

Motivation

Ethereum is the most-established blockchain for building decentralized applications (referred to as DApps). Due to this, the Ethereum DApp ecosystem is very diverse. However, one issue that plagues DApps is the fact that they are not fully decentralized. Specifically, to interface a “decentralized” application, one first needs to access a centralized website containing the DApp’s front-end code, presenting a few issues. The following are some risks associated with using centralized websites to interface with decentralized applications:

  • Trust Minimization: An unnecessarily large number of entities need to be trusted
  • Censorship: A centralized website is not resistant to being censored
  • Permanence: The interface may not have a mechanism that permits it to be permanently stored
  • Interoperability: Smart Contracts cannot directly interact with DApp interfaces

Specification

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Name Resolution

EIPs that propose a name resolution mechanism MAY reference this EIP and MAY recommend that clients support their mechanism. Clients MAY also support regular DNS, as defined in RFC 1034 and RFC 1035.

Separation of Concerns

It is RECOMMENDED to separate the application logic from the front-end logic (the contract implementing the interface defined in Contract Interface).

Contract Interface

DApp contracts MUST implement the interface defined in the following file: Contract Interface.

Rationale

The request method was chosen to be readonly because all data should be sent to the contract from the parsed DApp. Here are some reasons why:

  • Submitting a transaction to send a request would be costly and would require waiting for the transaction to be mined, resulting in quite possibly the worst user-experience possible.
  • Complicated front-end logic should not be stored in the smart contract, as it would be costly to deploy and would be better ran on the end-user’s machine.
  • Separation of Concerns: the front-end contract shouldn’t have to worry about interacting with the back-end smart contract.
  • Other EIPs can be used to request state changing operations in conjunction with a 307 Temporary Redirect status code.

Instead of mimicking a full HTTP request, a highly slimmed version was chosen for the following reasons:

  • The only particularly relevant HTTP method is GET
  • Query parameters can be encoded in the resource.
  • Request headers are, for the most part, unnecessary for GET requests.

向后兼容性

This EIP is backwards compatible with all standards listed in the Name Resolution section.

Security Considerations

Needs discussion.

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参考文献

Please cite this document as:

Pandapip1, "EIP-5219: Contract Resource Requests [DRAFT]," Ethereum Improvement Proposals, no. 5219, July 2022. [Online serial]. Available: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-5219.