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If you look at the documentation for .../preapply/block, you see two parameters: sort, and timestamp But there is no explanation for what these do. The RPC help does not even mention them:

$ ./tezos-client rpc list /chains/main/blocks/head/helpers/preapply/block

Available services:

  - POST /chains/main/blocks/head/helpers/preapply/block
      Simulate the validation of a block that would contain the given
      operations and return the resulting fitness and context hash.

Can someone explain what these two parameters mean?

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  • When the sort flag is set, the operations in the block will be sorted before being pre-applied
  • The timestamp may be used to explicitly apply a timestamp to the block. When omitted, the current system time is used
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  • Sorted by what? timestamp just puts whatever I provide back into the returned result?
    – utdrmac ♦
    Sep 22, 2020 at 13:36
  • The ordering of the operations is protocol specific. In the current active protocol version (006), the operations are sorted by their type: Endorsement < Seed_nonce_revelation < Double_endorsement_evidence < Double_baking_evidence < Activate_account < Proposals < Ballot < Manager_operation and furthermore manager operations are sorted by their counter (smaller first)
    – Tomáš Zemanovič
    Sep 22, 2020 at 16:07
  • The block is validated with given timestamp and it's also added to the block's shell header.
    – Tomáš Zemanovič
    Sep 22, 2020 at 16:12

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