Component

consensus, eips, genesis, serde

Describe the feature you would like

Problem

Bincode does not support #[serde(skip*)] attributes. Additionally, there's a similar issue with rmp-serde.

It means that we cannot use a lot of Alloy types for serialization/deserialization using these formats.

Solution

Introduce helper serde modules for those structs in alloy-consensus that have #[serde(skip*)] attributes on fields and remove those attributes. Modules should be similar to

Then, these modules should be used in structs that have problematic types as fields. For example, for the Block type we will need to use a #[serde_as] on the Block struct and #[serde_as(as = "HeaderBincode")] on the header field

Both of the attributes should be gated by the serde-bincode feature.

The types that need special handling are:

• Header
• TxEip2930
• TxEip1559
• TxLegacy

As a test, we should be able to serialize and deserialize the Block struct using bincode.

Additional context

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