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Add alwaysfail, and authandfail #7

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abourget opened this issue Jun 6, 2019 · 4 comments
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Add alwaysfail, and authandfail #7

abourget opened this issue Jun 6, 2019 · 4 comments

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abourget commented Jun 6, 2019

This contract would be even better fit for these patterns.

See https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio.contracts/issues/169 for previous discussions

If you think it would be acceptable, I'll submit a PR.

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abourget commented Jun 6, 2019

Issuing an inline action to an account with an ABI would allow structured data to be exported, read through the always failed traces, like @tbfleming suggested in the thread above.

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We're working on a proposal to formalize sending notifications to eosio.null. The assert-to-save-costs approach is controversial internally.

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abourget commented Jun 8, 2019

What is an assert-to-save-costs?

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If it doesn't assert, then the user will be charged for the query. The main objection is using the transaction execution system, with all of its overhead, to answer queries.

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