[RPC] - Gateway should deserialize object contents

[kyleqian]

Currently the rest server outputs raw ObjectRead data for /api/object_info, as in:

"contents": "OFd2cCAFyXlxzUXP/dMQmHG+k1QAAAAAAAAAAKCGAQAAAAAA"

Ideally it should serialize to something readable, like json, similar to what the wallet CLI already does.

[patrickkuo]

@oxade FYI

[todd-mystenlabs]

Are we keeping the rest server endpoints for devnet? I thought we were dropping the rest endpoints and going with json-rpc over https?
cc: @lxfind @patrickkuo

i.e. are we going to be able to hit /api/object_info with a REST verb?

[patrickkuo]

This endpoint will be port to JSON-RPC, instead of /api/object_info, the same functionality will be accessible via json RPC. We will remove the rest server after JSON-RPC is ready.

[gdanezis]

Ok, so we will never do this? Should we close the issue?

[kyleqian]

This isn't specific to REST api - it's about returning object contents in a readable format to clients.

[patrickkuo]

Lets keep this open to make sure we fix this in RPC

[patrickkuo]

Related to this #237

[patrickkuo]

this is fixed by #1440