Converting @jonas txref to txid results in "computing…"

[kimdhamilton]

From @ChristopherA on July 15, 2017 21:47

@jonasschnelli publishes his TX1 enrollment in his twitter at: https://twitter.com/_jonasschnelli_ which is tx1-rk63-uvxf-9pqc-sy

If you put this into the playground's txref field, and click on convert, the txid field says "computing…".

Two bugs: it didn't reverse this function, and it stopped rather than reporting an error.

Copied from original issue: WebOfTrustInfo/txref-conversion-js#5

[kimdhamilton]

From @ChristopherA on July 15, 2017 21:54

I thought maybe my error was that I had not clicked on "mainnet" checkbox when I tried to reverse jonas' tx1. However, this didn't work.

[kimdhamilton]

Fixed error handling; now at least displays failure message. Looking into Jonas's tx

[kimdhamilton]

I noticed the decoding step worked, but we are hitting API limits. As a temporary workaround (before we have more explorer APIs) I can break up the processing to display incremental progress, e.g. height and index so that someone can use another explorer

[kimdhamilton]

I made the above change so at least the block height and index are available. The API limits are very strict, so I created an issue to use more blockchain explorers: WebOfTrustInfo/txref-conversion-js#7