From f9f466ef079532c861e39cac8fcbdadf3788040d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Trippar <ntrippar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:30:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] change visibility of the function request in
 Provider<JsonRpcClient> to public so one can implement Middleware's with
 custom call to the node (#919)

---
 ethers-providers/src/provider.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ethers-providers/src/provider.rs b/ethers-providers/src/provider.rs
index 13002168..02285a00 100644
--- a/ethers-providers/src/provider.rs
+++ b/ethers-providers/src/provider.rs
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ impl<P: JsonRpcClient> Provider<P> {
         self
     }
 
-    async fn request<T, R>(&self, method: &str, params: T) -> Result<R, ProviderError>
+    pub async fn request<T, R>(&self, method: &str, params: T) -> Result<R, ProviderError>
     where
         T: Debug + Serialize + Send + Sync,
         R: Serialize + DeserializeOwned + Debug,