cmd/rlpdump: add support for text to rlp #23745
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This PR adds support for the
rlpdump
tool to go from text format to RLP. This is often a bit cumbersome: modifying RLP means that the lengths needs to be recalculated. Right now, I often create some golang testcase which defines some struct and then call rlp.EncodeToBytes on it, which is a bit PITA.Using a moderately complext struct:
Examples:
It doesn't handle 'bad input' well, and can panic, but that's not really important for this tool, IMO.