Cleanup Borsh Serializers

[MaksymZavershynskyi]

• Allow deriving Borsh schema using #[derive(BorshSchema)]. Add BorshSchema borsh#56
• Implement Rust contract metadata and use Borsh schema for types;
• Reconcile and update Borsh for TS/JS (Applayer workspace): Consolidate and update Borsh for TS/JS near-api-js#252
• Upgrade rpctypegen to new Borsh Schema format (blocked by the above issue).

[ghost]

Never liked cabbage, until I ate borsh.

Question is if this naming-indirection makes sense. I mean, reading technical docs and getting hungry, and guessing what this library does?

Possibly you should consider giving "borsh" a more expressive name, something that implies what this library does.

near-stream?

[MaksymZavershynskyi]

Never liked cabbage, until I ate borsh.

Question is if this naming-indirection makes sense. I mean, reading technical docs and getting hungry, and guessing what this library does?

Possibly you should consider giving "borsh" a more expressive name, something that implies what this library does.

near-stream?

Borsh name is too much ingrained into our codebase to be easily switched. Also, similar to CBOR, BORSH is a meaningful abbreviation see http://borsh.io/

[MaksymZavershynskyi]

Assigning to @kcole16 since the rest of the work is mostly on the Applayer side.

[ilblackdragon]

@nearmax I'm a bit lost given some work was already done - Are the steps left to finish this Epic required for MainNet or not?

[MaksymZavershynskyi]

This is not a Mainnet blocker. Since the remaining steps will not change the node API, we will be able to update via nearlib. Moving to the IceBox and removing from the Mainnet release.

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[bowenwang1996]

I believe the majority of the work is done. The rest is tracked in #2242