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Enhancement to get `revert reason` for Besu client.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
api, blockchain

Research direction

Start by tracing how Besu's eth_call handling and eth_getTransactionReceipt responses are implemented. Confirm how --revert-reason-enabled=true exposes the revert reason, then define completion as making that reason available through the requested eth_call behavior.

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Description

Implementation of eth_call in besu is very restrictive and can't be used to get evm revert reason using eth_call.
The revert reason is returned as part of eth_getTransactionReceipt, when node is running with --revert-reason-enabled=true.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
76
Forks
31
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