Decode extrinsics without Signature

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <alexandru.vasile@parity.io>

examples/examples/block_extrinsics.rs

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+// Copyright 2019-2023 Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
+// This file is dual-licensed as Apache-2.0 or GPL-3.0.
+// see LICENSE for license details.
+
+//! To run this example, a local polkadot node should be running. Example verified against polkadot v0.9.28-9ffe6e9e3da.
+//!
+//! E.g.
+//! ```bash
+//! curl "https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/download/v0.9.28/polkadot" --output /usr/local/bin/polkadot --location
+//! polkadot --dev --tmp
+//! ```
+
+use futures::StreamExt;
+use sp_keyring::AccountKeyring;
+use std::time::Duration;
+use subxt::blocks::ExtrinsicError;
+use subxt::{tx::PairSigner, OnlineClient, PolkadotConfig};
+
+#[subxt::subxt(runtime_metadata_path = "../artifacts/polkadot_metadata.scale")]
+pub mod polkadot {}
+
+/// Subscribe to all events, and then manually look through them and
+/// pluck out the events that we care about.
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
+
+    // Create a client to use:
+    let api = OnlineClient::<PolkadotConfig>::new().await?;
+
+    // Subscribe to (in this case, finalized) blocks.
+    let mut block_sub = api.blocks().subscribe_finalized().await?;
+
+    // While this subscription is active, balance transfers are made somewhere:
+    tokio::task::spawn({
+        let api = api.clone();
+        async move {
+            let signer = PairSigner::new(AccountKeyring::Alice.pair());
+            let mut transfer_amount = 1_000_000_000;
+
+            // Make small balance transfers from Alice to Bob in a loop:
+            loop {
+                let transfer_tx = polkadot::tx()
+                    .balances()
+                    .transfer(AccountKeyring::Bob.to_account_id().into(), transfer_amount);
+                api.tx()
+                    .sign_and_submit_default(&transfer_tx, &signer)
+                    .await
+                    .unwrap();
+
+                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(10)).await;
+                transfer_amount += 100_000_000;
+            }
+        }
+    });
+
+    // Get each finalized block as it arrives.
+    while let Some(block) = block_sub.next().await {
+        let block = block?;
+
+        let block_hash = block.hash();
+
+        println!(" Block {:?}", block_hash);
+        // Ask for the extrinsics for this block.
+        for extrinsic in block.body().await?.extrinsics() {
+            println!("  Extrinsic index {:?}", extrinsic.index());
+
+            let decoded: Result<
+                polkadot::runtime_types::polkadot_runtime::RuntimeCall,
+                ExtrinsicError,
+            > = extrinsic.decode();
+            match decoded {
+                Ok(decoded) => {
+                    println!("    Decoded extrinsic: {:?}", decoded);
+                }
+                Err(err) => {
+                    println!("    Decoded extrinsic with error: {:?}", err);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        println!("\n");
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}