Hurdles when managing ENS ABI records

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I’ve not found any UIs or utilities to help manage ABI records.
Perhaps I didn’t dig enough?
Are there any?
If there aren’t any, does anyone know why ensjs doesn’t include support?

I added a number of ABI records for my project and I had to write a couple of scripts to help me along. These tasks seem rote. Surely others who’ve added ABI records have jumped through similar hoops? Standardizing this process would be a dream, of sorts.

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ABIs haven’t seen widespread usage in ENS, so there isn’t yet a lot of tooling for them. If you’d like to build any, it would be warmly received!

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I was looking over the content-hash library, as a possible starting point for ABI.
Should the ABI implementation focus on using CID, if the entries already define the data stored on chain?

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The ABI spec defines several ways to encode the data. I don’t think CID is a good format - we need a structured format like JSON or CBOR.

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Right, the spec specifies JSON, zlib JSON, CBOR, and URI

Are you saying you would like to see each of those four records encoded in a matching structured format, which would be hexlified on chain?

JSON

{
  "type": "json",
  "data": "{...JSON ABI...}"
}

zlib JSON

{
  "type": "zlibJson",
  "data": "BASE64 ZLIB BUFFER"
}

CBOR

{
  "type": "cbor",
  "data": "CBOR_STRING"
}

URI

{
  "type": "uri",
  "data": "ipfs://...|https://...|..."
}
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I’m not sure what you mean? The spec describes how each of those formats can be stored onchain.

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In order to make the ABI usable at scale in Dapps, it is necessary to be able to call ideally a subgraph, so that it loads quickly. I need to look into it to see how feasible it is to create a subgraph with The Graph, that can host ABI data.

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Etherscan supports this as a centralized service, here is some info.

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we need a structured format like JSON or CBOR

When I read “we need a structured format”, my interpretation was, “ABI records should all be structured the same”. Therefore I posited a structured record which would wrap ABI types 1, 2, 4, or 8 in the same JSON.

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All four types can be decoded to the canonical JSON format for ABIs already.