[DRAFT] Allow smart contract methods to accept parameters when ABI was provided not as const

[Muhammad-Altabba]

Description

Fixes #6275

If the developer provided an ABI from a file but without having as const, if he provided the ABI without saving it to a ts file first (with the as const), or if he provided an empty ABI, the user can call contract.methods.ANY_METHOD_NAM() but cannot pass any parameter to his called methods. Meaning he can call only methods that does not accept parameter or he need to do something like: (contract.methods.transfer as any)('0xe4beef667408b99053dc147ed19592ada0d77f59', 12)
This MR will fix that.

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

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../lib/commonjs/index.d.ts	8.63 KB	8.63 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/accounts.d.ts	3.89 KB	3.89 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/types.d.ts	2.45 KB	2.45 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/web3.d.ts	1.14 KB	1.14 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/abi.d.ts	999 bytes	999 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/eth.exports.d.ts	280 bytes	280 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/providers.exports.d.ts	148 bytes	148 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/version.d.ts	60 bytes	60 bytes	0	0.00%

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Benchmark

Benchmark suite	Current: e37be00	Previous: 6c075db	Ratio
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processingContractMethodSend	19106 ops/sec (±7.68%)	19443 ops/sec (±5.19%)	1.02
processingContractMethodCall	38407 ops/sec (±5.79%)	38971 ops/sec (±6.34%)	1.01
abiEncode	43900 ops/sec (±7.02%)	44252 ops/sec (±6.92%)	1.01
abiDecode	31601 ops/sec (±8.25%)	30419 ops/sec (±8.89%)	0.96
sign	1637 ops/sec (±3.04%)	1656 ops/sec (±4.08%)	1.01
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