Allow for graceful failure of Promise.all if one of many queries reverts / errors.

[0xidkfa]

feat(ethers.ts): improved wrap function handles query failures gracefully and returns error object

BREAKING CHANGE: Wrap no longer throws an error.

When calling Promise.all([wrappedUni.symbol(), wrappedUnknown.symbol()]), the current library will throw an error for the entire promise. Instead of throwing an error, I've made a slight modification to return an error object. The response will now come in the following form:

[
        "UNI",
        {
          address: "0xd6409e50c05879c5B9E091EB01E9Dd776d00A151",
          error: new Error(
            "0xd6409e50c05879c5B9E091EB01E9Dd776d00A151:symbol() empty return data exception"
          ),
          params: [],
        }
]

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[0xidkfa]

@Rubilmax Is there a better / different way to do this? I noticed in 4.0.0, you already tried to add graceful failure, but I couldn't figure out how to get away with it when using Promise.all...

[Rubilmax]

@Rubilmax Is there a better / different way to do this? I noticed in 4.0.0, you already tried to add graceful failure, but I couldn't figure out how to get away with it when using Promise.all...

Hi @0xidkfa, thanks for your contribution!
It seems it's not the best way to do it, as handling errors would require promises to be independent. Unfortunately, they are with the current design of this package and would require an entire refactoring.

Fortunately, this refactoring was performed in the new package ethers-multicall-provider, that you can find here: https://github.com/rubilmax/ethers-multicall-provider

We shall decommission this package now that the new one replaced it with many new & useful features

[0xidkfa]

Thanks for this! Is this package deprecated in favor of the ethers-multicall-provider package? If not, what are the key differences between the two?

Also, when you say promises are not independent in this library, do you mind giving an example of when promises would be dependent on each other?

[Rubilmax]

Thanks for this! Is this package deprecated in favor of the ethers-multicall-provider package? If not, what are the key differences between the two?

Indeed, I'll deprecate this package in favor of ethers-multicall-provider!

Also, when you say promises are not independent in this library, do you mind giving an example of when promises would be dependent on each other?

Using this package, if any of the following contract calls revert, all others revert too and you don't get a good explanation of what fails:

await Promise.all([
  wrappedUni.symbol(),
  wrappedUni.unknown().catch(),
]);

so you will never successfully get the symbol because the unknown function will always revert (even if you catch it, because this package bundles all promises performed within a 10ms window into a single one, via dataloader)