This method will not check the transaction validity, but only run the lock script and type script and then return the execution cycles.

It is used to estimate how many cycles the scripts consume.

Parameters

estimate_cycles(tx)

Returns

Estimate cycles.

Example

Request

curl --location --request POST 'https://ckb-mirana.unifra.io/v1/4fb36720a57340d39aee4cf68511064a' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "id": 42,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "estimate_cycles",
  "params": [
    {
      "cell_deps": [
        {
          "dep_type": "code",
          "out_point": {
            "index": "0x0",
            "tx_hash": "0xa4037a893eb48e18ed4ef61034ce26eba9c585f15c9cee102ae58505565eccc3"
          }
        }
      ],
      "header_deps": [
        "0x7978ec7ce5b507cfb52e149e36b1a23f6062ed150503c85bbf825da3599095ed"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        {
          "previous_output": {
            "index": "0x0",
            "tx_hash": "0x365698b50ca0da75dca2c87f9e7b563811d3b5813736b8cc62cc3b106faceb17"
          },
          "since": "0x0"
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "capacity": "0x2540be400",
          "lock": {
            "code_hash": "0x28e83a1277d48add8e72fadaa9248559e1b632bab2bd60b27955ebc4c03800a5",
            "hash_type": "data",
            "args": "0x"
          },
          "type": null
        }
      ],
      "outputs_data": [
        "0x"
      ],
      "version": "0x0",
      "witnesses": []
    }
  ]
}'

Result

{
  "id": 42,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "cycles": "0x219"
  }
}