I am going through this documentation and I have several uncertainties.
Performing explicit contract and state upgrades
Preserve the existing state and contract definitions
Write the new state and contract definitions
Create the new CorDapp JAR
Distribute the new CorDapp JAR
Stop the nodes
Re-run the network bootstrapper (only if you want to whitelist the
new contract)
Restart the nodes
Authorise the upgrade
Perform the upgrade
Migrate the new upgraded state to the Signature Constraint from the
zone constraint
Questions:
1. Preserve the existing state and contract definitions
2. Write the new state and contract definitions
3. Create the new CorDapp JAR
How do I do that? is it meant only to preserve jars with contracts and states on nodes, not preserving them in source code? If I do not preserve them in source code then how can I create the upgrade method?
interface UpgradedContract<in OldState : ContractState, out NewState : ContractState> : Contract {
val legacyContract: ContractClassName
fun upgrade(state: OldState): NewState
}
If I do not preserve old state in source code, then shoud I name the jar differently each time I need to do an upgrade?
Can old jars be reoved from the node when the upgrade was completed?
6. Re-run the network bootstrapper (only if you want to whitelist the
new contract)
8. Authorise the upgrade
Am I right that only those 2 steps are related to Explicit contact upgrades? And If I use implicit flow with signature, then I need to skip only those two steps, while the others are still aplicable and must be performed?
9. Perform the upgrade
Should this be done for each state separately by the owner of the state? In that case should I run it on each node for specific contrcats where the node is the participant of the state? (In doc it is mentioned to be run on single node - but what id=f a single node is not participant of some state)
Other questions
This section describes explicit contracts and states update.
https://docs.corda.net/upgrading-cordapps.html#performing-explicit-contract-and-state-upgrades while signature constraint section (https://docs.corda.net/api-contract-constraints.html#signature-constraints) does not describe an update process for states.
is it the same as for explicit upgrades with the difference only in steps 6,8 or it is somewhat completely different?
Do I need to create the function transforming old states to new states in that case? if not , then how the old states will be handled by new flows?
I see you have many some great questions about contract upgrades. Here is an article that is written by one of our dev-relation engineers. https://medium.com/corda/contract-upgrades-and-constraints-in-corda-425055a9a47f
Feel free to follow up any additional questions that you have.
If you are new to Corda, feel free to join the Corda community channels #http://slack.corda.net/
While performing legacy contract upgrades, you need both the old and new contract jars installed on your node. (present in the cordapps folder).
You can create a new Gradle module say v2-contract and write the new contract in this. This is where you will write your UpgradedContract. You will need to refer to the old v1-conract jar as well as it needs to know what the old state was. To do this add a gradle dependency in v2-contract like below.
dependencies {
// Corda dependencies.
cordapp project(v1_contract)
}
The old jar can be removed from the cordapps folder, once all the states have been upgraded to new v2-contract.
a. For HashConstraints there is no need to run the bootstrapper again. You will write the new contract by implementing UpgradedContractWithLegacyConstraint,run the jar task to build this new jar, add it to the cordapps folder, run the Authorise Flow from all nodes, run the Initiate flow from one of he node's terminal. This is the explicit way of upgrading.
b. However if you are using Whitelistzoneconstraint, you want to make sure to add the new v2-contract jar's hash to whitelist param in network param. You will need to run the network Bootstrapper to whitelist this new v2-contracts jar hash. https://docs.corda.net/network-bootstrapper.html#whitelisting-contracts.
Once you do that you can either go for an explicit upgrade by implementing UpgradedContract, or you can use implicit upgrade.
c. If you are using Signature Constraints, no need to run the network Bootstrapper for the new jar, write the new v2-contract, build it using gradle jar task, replace old jar with new jar. This is the implicit way of upgrading.
You should run the Authorise Flow for all the participants only.
Other questions
There is no explicit upgrade in Signature constraints. You need to make sure you write your state in a backward compatible way, build new jar, replace old jar with new jar. The states will refer to the new contract then.
Hope that helps. Feel free to post more questions on the above answer or ping on Slack.
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In the Corda accounts library, in order to change the host "ownership" of the account from one node to another, one would need to change the Host in the AccountInfo state to the new host (node), along with share all vault states relevant to this account.
AccountInfo doesn't have an Update command (AccountInfo commands), meaning you cannot change the host once it is created.
Has this feature been excluded for any reason? Are there any plans to introduce an Update command (with supporting flows)?
What steps would be involved in a move/transfer (host ownership)? And what are the potential caveats around this implementation?
Amol there will be work done on this in the future but as of now, there are two options which could help you resolve your issue.
Set up a new account on the new node. Generate new key(s) for the new account. Spend all the states from the old account to this new account.
If you control the all the keys used to participate in your states and can migrate them to the new node then you just need to import the key pairs somehow and then copy all the states across from the old node to the new node.
Hope that helps.
As mentioned in the docs on performing flow upgrades, all you need to do is basically shut down the node, replace JAR, and start the node back up. When I do this, when my upgraded flow is run the next time, I get the following error:
net.corda.core.contracts.TransactionVerificationException$ContractConstraintRejection: Contract constraints failed for com.company.project.contract.MyContract, transaction: ABCDEFG
And the flow does not complete as a result. What am I doing wrong?
As my experience it seem like Corda flow upgrade not update network parameter (state still belong to old hash, old contract). Then when replace with new contract it will be contract constraint.
So I think you have 3 way to manage this
For local network bootstrap, update network parameter before doing flow upgrade (I use network-bootstrap.jar for copy new contract to cordapp folder, then it will append new contract hash immediately)
For Corda network, you must contact network operator for update new hash.
Use SignatureConstraint of Corda4 (they claim that it's upgrade easier but I didn't try yet)
Hope this help
With the contract upgrade in mind, is it better to split each state and contract to its own cordapp/module so it exist in its own jar when deployed?
Hence during upgrade, we can upgrade only the affected states - instead of have N number of states in one shared-cordapp, and when only one state is upgraded, we have to upgraded all other states as well.
Suppose you initially deploy the following CorDapps on your node:
CorDapp 1, containing OldState1, OldState2, OldContract1, OldContract2
CorDapp 2, containing OldState3, OldState4, OldContract3, OldContract4
After running the node for a while, you need to upgrade OldState1 to NewState1, and OldContract1 to NewContract1.
To do so, you create a new CorDapp JAR containing NewState1 and NewContract1 and deploy this on your node. You can then initiate the upgrade process to transition the OldState1 instances using OldContract1 to instances of NewState1 using NewContract1.
In other words, although your original CorDapp contained two states and two contracts, the CorDapp containing the upgrades only needs to contain one state and one contract. There is therefore no advantage to splitting each contract and state into its own CorDapp as you describe.
Reference code :-
GIT clone url :- git clone https://github.com/corda/cordapp-tutorial
Release M14 :- git checkout -b release-M14.0
I am little bit confused about how the data flows in Corda. I have some database releated queries:
Whether the database structure is fixed or we can add our custom tables in it?
Where can I see the data flowing in tables, when I do a cash transaction which I can see in VAULT_CASH_BALANCES
table in my H2 database client but apart from cash I am unable to see any details of my other transactiosn i.e. if I
save a string then I am unable to get the information, I only get the transaction Id for that.
Is it possible to get entire data flow diagram?
Do the Node and Vault tables created every time when I build a code?
You can define how each state type is stored in the node by implementing the QueryableState interface. Each state type that implements QueryableState will have its own custom database table.
See https://github.com/corda/cordapp-tutorial/blob/master/kotlin-source/src/main/kotlin/com/example/state/IOUState.kt for an example. Since the IOU state implements a schema (in the Kotlin version of the CorDapp), you can see the sender, recipient and value from the H2 interface for each IOU state.
In the current implementation, the node's data is stored in the persistence.mv.db file of the deployed node. This will be wiped whenever you run gradlew deployNodes. However, if you simply create an updated CorDapp jar by running gradlew jar, you can then copy the updated CorDapp jar from build/libs into each node's plugins folder, and the node will use the new plugin.
Reference code:
Git clone URL: git clone https://github.com/corda/cordapp-tutorial
Release M14: git checkout -b release-M14.0
I am little bit confused about how the data flows in Corda. I have some database related queries:
Is the database structure fixed or can we add our custom tables in it?
Where can I see the data flowing in tables? When I do a cash transaction, I can see it in the AULT_CASH_BALANCES table in my H2 database client, but apart from cash I am unable to see any details of my other transactions, i.e., if I save a string then I am unable to get the information, I only get the transaction ID for that.
Is it possible to get entire data flow diagram?
Are the Node and Vault tables created every time when I build a code?
You can define how each state type is stored in the node by implementing the QueryableState interface. Each state type that implements QueryableState will have its own custom database table.
See https://github.com/corda/cordapp-tutorial/blob/master/kotlin-source/src/main/kotlin/com/example/state/IOUState.kt for an example. Since the IOU state implements a schema (in the Kotlin version of the CorDapp), you can see the sender, recipient and value from the H2 interface for each IOU state.
In the current implementation, the node's data is stored in the persistence.mv.db file of the deployed node. This will be wiped whenever you run gradlew deployNodes. However, if you simply create an updated CorDapp jar by running gradlew jar, you can then copy the updated CorDapp jar from build/libs into each node's plugins folder, and the node will use the new plugin.