Abstract
Recursive Length Prefix (see Yellow Paper Appendix B) is the data type used for all common Ethereum Classic structures including blocks, raw transactions, receipts and accounts. Defining a media type for Recursive Length Prefix (RLP) would allow a RESTful HTTP server to return raw RLP information directly. This is more efficient than the current JSON format for RPC calls.
Specification
Define a new media type according to RFC6838 under
application/vnd.ecip.rlp (IANA media type
assignment). This
media type has no required or optional parameters. It uses binary
encoding. The specification for RLP can be found at Yellow
Paper Appendix B.
Example
Note this section is only served as an example of how this media type might be used, and is not part of the specification.
A client can implement a RESTful API that returns RLP binary data directly. We use the routes below, that partially implements the functionality of the current JSON RPC protocol.
GET /{0xhex or number or latest or pending}: returns RLP binary data of a given block.GET /{0xhex or number or latest or pending}/transactions/{0xhex or number}: returns RLP binary data of a transaction.GET /{0xhex or number or latest or pending}/receipts/{0xhex or number}: returns RLP binary data of a transaction receipt.PUT /pending/transactions: accepts a raw RLP transaction input, and put it into the transaction mempool.GET /{0xhex or number or latest or pending}/accounts/{0xhex}: returns the RLP binary data of an account.