feat(rpc): enable rpcs selectively

[Thegaram]

1. Purpose or design rationale of this PR

The configuration --http.api is namespace-granular, you can either publish all sub-methods or none. We now add more granular whitelisting, e.g. enable debug:executionWitness instead of the full debug namespace.

Example

--http.api "eth,net:version,debug:executionWitness,debug:traceCall,scroll:syncStatus"

2. PR title

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• feat: A new feature

3. Deployment tag versioning

Has the version in params/version.go been updated?

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• Yes

4. Breaking change label

Does this PR have the breaking-change label?

• This PR is not a breaking change
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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added selective RPC API exposure by namespace or individual method.
  • Applied method restrictions consistently across HTTP, WebSocket, IPC, and batch requests.
  • Denied unavailable methods with standard “method not found” responses.
  • Added validation for malformed, ambiguous, or subscription-related API selections.
  • Updated API flag descriptions and incremented the patch version.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The RPC stack now supports namespace-level and individual-method API selection. It parses and validates API entries, applies method filters during dispatch across transports, updates node registration, adds coverage, documents the syntax, and increments the patch version.

Changes

RPC method-level API filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Method filter parsing and rules rpc/methodfilter.go, rpc/methodfilter_test.go	ParseAPIEntries validates API entries and creates namespace or method restrictions. MethodFilter denies unlisted methods by default while preserving unrestricted namespaces.
Server registry and dispatch enforcement rpc/service.go, rpc/server.go, rpc/handler.go, rpc/methodfilter_dispatch_test.go, rpc/methodfilter_subscribe_test.go	The server registry stores the filter atomically. Dispatch rejects disallowed methods for individual calls and batch elements across HTTP, WebSocket, and IPC. Subscription-suffixed entries are rejected.
Node API registration and configuration node/rpcstack.go, node/rpcstack_apilist_test.go, cmd/utils/flags.go, params/version.go	RegisterApis parses configured entries, registers namespaces, applies method filters, and preserves the distinction between empty and nil module lists. HTTP and WebSocket flag descriptions document method selection. The patch version changes from 7 to 8.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e5d9d

When all RPC APIs are requested, the new selective filter can still deny methods if a method-qualified entry is present, so expose-all deployments may not behave as intended. This bounded correctness issue should be corrected before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RPCFlags
  participant RegisterApis
  participant ParseAPIEntries
  participant RPCServer
  participant serviceRegistry
  RPCFlags->>RegisterApis: API entries
  RegisterApis->>ParseAPIEntries: parse entries
  ParseAPIEntries-->>RegisterApis: namespaces and filter
  RegisterApis->>RPCServer: register namespaces
  RegisterApis->>RPCServer: SetMethodFilter
  RPCServer->>serviceRegistry: install filter

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 78.79% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 33 functions across 11 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the purpose, gives a configuration example, confirms the conventional-commit title type, records the version update, and states that the PR is not a breaking change.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required feat(rpc) format and clearly summarizes the main change: selective RPC method enablement.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@node/rpcstack.go`:
- Around line 551-552: Update the method-filter installation around
srv.SetMethodFilter so it only runs when exposeAll is false; preserve
unrestricted access when exposeAll is true, including with
debug:executionWitness. Extend TestRegisterApisExposeAll with a method entry and
verify all methods remain reachable.

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📒 Files selected for processing (11)

• cmd/utils/flags.go
• node/rpcstack.go
• node/rpcstack_apilist_test.go
• params/version.go
• rpc/handler.go
• rpc/methodfilter.go
• rpc/methodfilter_dispatch_test.go
• rpc/methodfilter_subscribe_test.go
• rpc/methodfilter_test.go
• rpc/server.go
• rpc/service.go

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