misc. example ideas

[harrysolovay]

• faucet service
• differentiating between tokens on chain with numerous Balances impls

[statictype]

I want to call the system_properties rpc method but couldn't find an rpc call example on main.

For Westend it should return:

{
  ss58Format: 42
  tokenDecimals: [
    12
  ]
  tokenSymbol: [
    WND
  ]
}

Also interesting to have an example of querying chain constants like depositBase and depositFactor

[harrysolovay]

You can achieve this like so.

import { chain } from "westend_dev/mod.js"

const properties = await chain.connection
  .call("system_properties")
  .run()

You could also access this from the FRAME metadata if I'm not mistaken. Ie.

const ss58Prefix = await chain
  .pallet("System")
  .constant("Ss58Prefix").decoded
  .run()

Asset differentiation is definitely an area in which some nice patterns can make a big difference... adding that to the list.