fix: disable string buffer-layout field type till it is better developed

Author: sohrab-

src/coders/borsh.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ export class BorshCoder implements Coder {
       return acc;
     }, {} as Record<string, any>);
 
-    const buffer = Buffer.alloc(layout.span);
+    // TODO this is how Anchor does it atm https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor/blob/5a025b949e67bf424a30641028973f00325b8f1e/ts/packages/anchor/src/coder/borsh/accounts.ts#L46
+    // const buffer = Buffer.alloc(layout.span);
+    const buffer = Buffer.alloc(1000);
     layout.encode(values, buffer);
     return buffer;
   }

src/components/ShareModal.tsx

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { CheckIcon, CopyIcon, DownloadIcon } from "@chakra-ui/icons";
 import {
   Alert,
   AlertDescription,
+  AlertIcon,
   Box,
   Button,
   Center,
@@ -126,8 +127,12 @@ export const ShareModal: React.FC = () => {
               </UnorderedList>
             </Text>
           </Box>
-          <Alert status="info" variant="left-accent">
-            <AlertDescription>More share options coming soon!</AlertDescription>
+          <Alert fontSize="sm" status="warning" variant="left-accent">
+            <AlertIcon />
+            <AlertDescription>
+              During the Alpha phase of development, backward-compatibility is
+              NOT guaranteed.
+            </AlertDescription>
           </Alert>
         </ModalBody>
 

src/utils/internal.ts

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export const newRpcEndpoint = (): IRpcEndpoint => ({
 export const newDataField = (): IInstrctionDataField => ({
   id: uuid(),
   name: "",
-  type: "string",
+  type: "u8",
   value: "",
 });
 

src/utils/ui-constants.ts

@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ export const FORMAT_DATA_TYPES: Record<DataFormat, InstructionDataFieldType[]> =
       "bool",
       "bytes",
       "publicKey",
-      "string",
+      // TODO underbaked - needs to support various types of String encodings
+      // "string",
       "unsupported",
     ],
     raw: [],