Return decoded seal fields.

ethcore/src/header.rs

@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ impl Header {
 	pub fn difficulty(&self) -> &U256 { &self.difficulty }
 	/// Get the seal field of the header.
 	pub fn seal(&self) -> &[Bytes] { &self.seal }
+	/// Get the seal field with RLP-decoded values as bytes.
+	pub fn decode_seal<'a, T: ::std::iter::FromIterator<&'a [u8]>>(&'a self) -> Result<T, DecoderError> {
+		self.seal.iter().map(|rlp| {
+			UntrustedRlp::new(rlp).data()
+		}).collect()
+	}
 
 	// TODO: seal_at, set_seal_at &c.
 
@@ -340,13 +346,20 @@ mod tests {
 		// that's rlp of block header created with ethash engine.
 		let header_rlp = "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".from_hex().unwrap();
 		let mix_hash = "a0a0349d8c3df71f1a48a9df7d03fd5f14aeee7d91332c009ecaff0a71ead405bd".from_hex().unwrap();
+		let mix_hash_decoded = "a0349d8c3df71f1a48a9df7d03fd5f14aeee7d91332c009ecaff0a71ead405bd".from_hex().unwrap();
 		let nonce = "88ab4e252a7e8c2a23".from_hex().unwrap();
+		let nonce_decoded = "ab4e252a7e8c2a23".from_hex().unwrap();
 
 		let header: Header = rlp::decode(&header_rlp);
-		let seal_fields = header.seal;
+		let seal_fields = header.seal.clone();
 		assert_eq!(seal_fields.len(), 2);
 		assert_eq!(seal_fields[0], mix_hash);
 		assert_eq!(seal_fields[1], nonce);
+
+		let decoded_seal = header.decode_seal::<Vec<_>>().unwrap();
+		assert_eq!(decoded_seal.len(), 2);
+		assert_eq!(decoded_seal[0], &*mix_hash_decoded);
+		assert_eq!(decoded_seal[1], &*nonce_decoded);
 	}
 
 	#[test]

ethcore/src/views/header.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ use bigint::prelude::U256;
 use bigint::hash::{H256, H2048};
 use util::Address;
 use bytes::Bytes;
-use rlp::Rlp;
+use rlp::{self, Rlp};
 use header::BlockNumber;
 
 /// View onto block header rlp.
@@ -99,6 +99,14 @@ impl<'a> HeaderView<'a> {
 		}
 		seal
 	}
+
+	/// Returns a vector of seal fields (RLP-decoded).
+	pub fn decode_seal(&self) -> Result<Vec<Bytes>, rlp::DecoderError> {
+		let seal = self.seal();
+		seal.into_iter()
+			.map(|s| rlp::UntrustedRlp::new(&s).data().map(|x| x.to_vec()))
+			.collect()
+	}
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]

rpc/src/v1/types/block.rs

@@ -173,8 +173,10 @@ impl<'a> From<&'a EthHeader> for Header {
 			logs_bloom: h.log_bloom().into(),
 			timestamp: h.timestamp().into(),
 			difficulty: h.difficulty().into(),
-			seal_fields: h.seal().into_iter().map(Into::into).collect(),
 			extra_data: h.extra_data().into(),
+			seal_fields: h.view().decode_seal()
+				.expect("Client/Miner returns only valid headers. We only serialize headers from Client/Miner; qed")
+				.into_iter().map(Into::into).collect(),
 		}
 	}
 }