fix some nits

src/rpc.rs

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ use core::{
 use frame_metadata::RuntimeMetadataPrefixed;
 pub use jsonrpsee::{
     client_transport::ws::{
+        InvalidUri,
         Receiver as WsReceiver,
         Sender as WsSender,
         Uri,
@@ -650,23 +651,24 @@ impl<T: Config> ExtrinsicSuccess<T> {
 
 /// Example to check that `From<(Sender, Receiver) for RpcClient` works.
 pub async fn build_ws_client_default(url: &str) -> Result<RpcClient, RpcError> {
-    let client = ws_transport(url).await.into();
+    let client = ws_transport(url).await?.into();
     Ok(client)
 }
 
 /// Build WS RPC client from URL
 pub async fn build_ws_client(url: &str) -> Result<RpcClient, RpcError> {
-    let (sender, receiver) = ws_transport(url).await;
+    let (sender, receiver) = ws_transport(url).await?;
     Ok(RpcClientBuilder::default()
         .max_notifs_per_subscription(4096)
         .build(sender, receiver))
 }
 
-async fn ws_transport(url: &str) -> (WsSender, WsReceiver) {
-    // fix unwraps because I'm lazy.
-    let url: Uri = url.parse().unwrap();
+async fn ws_transport(url: &str) -> Result<(WsSender, WsReceiver), RpcError> {
+    let url: Uri = url
+        .parse()
+        .map_err(|e: InvalidUri| RpcError::Transport(e.into()))?;
     WsTransportClientBuilder::default()
         .build(url)
         .await
-        .unwrap()
+        .map_err(|e| RpcError::Transport(e.into()))
 }

test-runtime/Cargo.toml

@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "2", default-features = fals
 subxt = { path = ".." }
 async-std = { version = "1.9.0", features = ["attributes"] }
 sp-core = { package = "sp-core", git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/", branch = "master" }
+jsonrpsee-http-client = { git = "https://github.com/paritytech/jsonrpsee/", branch = "extract-async-client" }

test-runtime/build.rs

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
 // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 // along with subxt.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
+use jsonrpsee_http_client::{
+    types::traits::Client,
+    HttpClientBuilder,
+};
 use std::{
     env,
     fs,
@@ -27,11 +31,6 @@ use std::{
     thread,
     time,
 };
-use subxt::rpc::{
-    build_ws_client,
-    rpc_params,
-    Client as _,
-};
 
 static SUBSTRATE_BIN_ENV_VAR: &str = "SUBSTRATE_NODE_PATH";
 
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ async fn main() {
     let cmd = Command::new(&substrate_bin)
         .arg("--dev")
         .arg("--tmp")
-        .arg(format!("--ws-port={}", port))
+        .arg(format!("--rpc-port={}", port))
         .spawn();
     let mut cmd = match cmd {
         Ok(cmd) => cmd,
@@ -61,15 +60,15 @@ async fn main() {
         const MAX_RETRIES: usize = 20;
         let mut retries = 0;
         let mut wait_secs = 1;
+        let rpc_client = HttpClientBuilder::default()
+            .build(&format!("http://localhost:{}", port))
+            .expect("valid URL; qed");
+
         loop {
             if retries >= MAX_RETRIES {
                 panic!("Cannot connect to substrate node after {} retries", retries);
             }
-            let res = build_ws_client(&format!("ws://localhost:{}", port))
-                .await
-                .expect("should only error if malformed URL for an HTTP connection")
-                .request("state_getMetadata", rpc_params![])
-                .await;
+            let res = rpc_client.request("state_getMetadata", None).await;
             match res {
                 Ok(res) => {
                     let _ = cmd.kill();