Add POST /utils/txs/evaluate – how many execution units for a transaction #306
Description
Context
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One of Blockfrost’s most frequently used endpoints:
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Reference implementation is available in Ogmios.
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It’s notoriously difficult to get right – see this
#ledgerthread on Slack. -
Our Slack discussion.
How?
We could use a similar approach as with the CBOR error deserializer. I.e.:
- Generate thousands of random but more/less sound transactions.
- Compare the calculation of Ogmios / Cardano CLI with our implementation for each transaction.
Both the transactions and the "official" calculation would similarly come from testgen-hs in Haskell.
The generator part is tracked in: