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//! # Light Client
//!
//! The Light Client aims to contribute to the decentralization of blockchains by providing connectivity
//! to the P2P network and behaving similarly to a full node.
//! The light client based interface uses _Smoldot_ to connect to a _chain_, rather than an individual
//! node. This means that you don't have to trust a specific node when interacting with some chain.
//!
//! To enable this functionality, the unstable-light-client feature flag needs to be enabled.
//! To enable light client for WASM environments, also enable the web feature flag.
//! This feature is currently unstable. Use the `unstable-light-client` feature flag to enable it.
//! To use this in WASM environments, also enable the `web` feature flag.
//!
//! To connect to a blockchain network, the Light Client requires a trusted sync state of the network, named "chain spec".
//! This can be obtained by making a `sync_state_genSyncSpec` RPC call to a trusted node.
//! To connect to a blockchain network, the Light Client requires a trusted sync state of the network,
//! known as a _chain spec_. One way to obtain this is by making a `sync_state_genSyncSpec` RPC call to a
//! trusted node belonging to the chain that you wish to interact with.
//!
//! The following is an example of fetching the chain spec from a local running onde on port 9933.
//! The following is an example of fetching the chain spec from a local running node on port 9933:
//!
//! ```bash
//! curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "sync_state_genSyncSpec", "params":[true]}' http://localhost:9933/ | jq .result > chain_spec.json
//! ```
//!
//! Alternately, you can have the `LightClient` download the chain spec from a trusted node when it
//! initializes, which is not recommended in production but is useful for examples and testing, as below.
//!
//! ## Example
//!
//! You can construct a Light Client from a trusted chain spec stored on disk.
//! Similary, the Light Client can fetch the chain spec from a running node and
//! overwrite the bootNodes section. The `jsonrpsee` feature flag exposes the
//! `build_from_url` method.
//! This example connects to a local chain and submits a transaction. To run this, you first need
//! to have a local polkadot node running using the following command:
//!
//! ```rust,ignore
//! let light_client = LightClientBuilder::new()
//! .bootnodes(
//! ["/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/30333/p2p/12D3KooWEyoppNCUx8Yx66oV9fJnriXwCcXwDDUA2kj6vnc6iDEp"]
//! )
//! .build_from_url("ws://127.0.0.1:9944")
//! .await?;
//! ```text
//! polkadot --dev --node-key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
//! ```
//!
//! Here's an example which connects to a local chain and submits a transaction.
//!
//! You can run the example using the following command:
//! Leave that running for a minute, and then you can run the example using the following command
//! in the `subxt` crate:
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo run --example unstable_light_client_tx_basic --features="unstable-light-client jsonrpsee"
//! cargo run --example unstable_light_client_tx_basic --features=unstable-light-client
//! ```
//!
//! This is the code that will be executed:
//!
//! ```rust,ignore
#![doc = include_str!("../../../examples/unstable_light_client_tx_basic.rs")]
//! ```
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