IPC Socket Client does not send \n delimiter

[fipso]

Ethers Version

6

Search Terms

ipc,socket,json

Describe the Problem

So as of now, all the major ETH node implementations support \n delimiter after every JSON message on their IPC socket. The problem is. Some even require it. Geth and Nethermind at least won't ever reply to a request if it is not terminated with \n. For Geth the reason is they use the default JSON decoder from golang which is built for streams and needs a delimiter. Nethermind just hardcoded \n as their delimiter for IPC request handling.

Please fix this. Thanks a lot. Ethers.js is amazing

Code Snippet

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Contract ABI

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Errors

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Environment

Ethereum (mainnet/ropsten/rinkeby/goerli), node.js (v12 or newer), Geth, Other (please specify)

Environment (Other)

Nethermind

[ricmoo]

Thanks. Testing it out right now...

[ricmoo]

My version of Geth seems to work fine without the \n, but after adding it, Geth still works just peachy.

[fipso]

Yes I was wrong about the geth implementation. The default json decoder from go does not need /n at all. If it sees a whitespace or /n it just skips it when parsing

[fipso]

Would be cool if we get this merged. Can't use nethermind ipc sockets with ethers

[ricmoo]

Not sure why this commit didn't get linked to from this issue, so posting this comment.

[fipso]

Thank you so much

[ricmoo]

Of course! Sorry for the delay.

For those finding this issue in the future, in was merged in v6.13.5.

Thanks! :)