Corda 4 - Querying vault by specific transactionid - corda

We are building a POC using Corda 4 and Springboot web server.
We are currently using the following code to retrieve all the states from the vault via RPC -
val vaultStatesAndRefs = services.proxy.vaultQueryBy<State>().states
val vaultStates = vaultStatesAndRefs.map { it.state.data }
We want - to retrieve a state from the vault via RPC using the transactionId.
Kindly guide in achieving this.

Please note that Corda doesn't guarantee the set of transactions retrieved via any method would remain consistent across future versions of Corda. This is because the future version of Corda would use SGX-encrypted format to exchange transaction chain between nodes. Thus the transactions can only be decrypted in a secure SGX enclave.
Having said that there is no direct API exposed which could be used to obtain state based on transactionId via RPC. The one you could use (internalFindVerifiedTransaction) have been deprecated and would likely be removed in the future versions of Corda.
The way to do this I suppose would be to use flow. You could retrieve the output states based on the transactionId.
SignedTransaction tx = getServiceHub().getValidatedTransactions().getTransaction(
SecureHash.parse(txId));
tx.toLedgerTransaction(getServiceHub()).getOutputStates();
You could then trigger the flow from your client using RPC and get the result from the FlowHandle object returned.
FlowHandle<List<ContractState>> flowHandle =
proxy.startFlowDynamic(GetStateFlow.class, txId);
List<ContractState> list = flowHandle.getReturnValue().get();

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I am using Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus, but I cannot find the corresponding methods that are in Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.... in order to generate the keys nor to update the rules.
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Alternatively, you can use below code to generate new key
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REFERENCES:
azure-sdk-for-net/ScenarioTests.TopicsTests.CRUDAuthorizationRules.cs
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Corda - Get State Machine Feed from ServiceHub

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ops.stateMachinesFeed().updates.subscribe {
...
}
I want to be able to access the state machine feed from a Corda service. Is there an equivalent to this using ServiceHub or AppServiceHub?
You can't do it at the moment. It requires accessing an instance of StateMachineManager and there is not a way to wire that into a service.

Corda - Validating notaries and custom objects in states

In relation to this post: Corda - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException being thrown from a validating notary
I've identified a case in Corda where states sometimes need to store a custom data type, however validating transactions using these states fails when using a validating notary.
Consider the following types to be implemented in the same package, in the same jar file:
Example Custom Type
package com.example.statescontracts
#CordaSerializable
data class Foo(
val bar: Int,
val baz: String
)
Example State
package com.example.statescontracts
data class FooState(
override val linearId: UniqueIdentifier,
val obligor: AbstractParty,
val obligee: AbstractParty,
val foos: Set<Foo>
) : LinearState {
override val participants get() = listOf(obligor, obligee)
}
Issuing a new FooState instance to the ledger probably isn't affected as it's not consuming a previous FooState instance, but subsequent consumption of FooState instances seem to fail for validating notaries.
Exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not a valid Java name:
java.util.Set<com.example.statescontracts.Foo>
Assumptions
Validation can occur for all participants of the state who have the states/contracts JAR file, and therefore can access the Foo type, however this doesn't work for the notary because it doesn't have a copy of the states/contracts JAR file locally.
As I understand it, the states/contracts JAR file should be kept small as it's attached to the transaction when proposed, therefore validating notaries should be able to validate using classes found in the JAR attached to the transaction.
Question
Can anyone verify whether my assumptions are correct, and if so, why this issue occurs for validating notaries, and how to correct this issue?
As described in the tech white paper, the intended end design is that the contract JARs are taken from attachments and run inside the deterministic JVM, where they're sandboxed and resource monitored.
A standalone DJVM preview is shipping in Corda 4, but is not integrated. We will continue to work on this over time, which will allow nodes that don't have the contracts JAR to validate transactions. For now, validating notaries do need to have every version of every app they may encounter installed. Non-validating notaries don't suffer this problem.
As of Corda 3, validating notaries need the states/contracts JAR file for each transaction they are notarising.

How to add another regulatory node and add some functionality to it in corda DLT?

I would like to add a new Notary/Regulatory node in my Cordapp application ,
which should perform some extra validation checks when transaction
is completed between two parties.
so that notary/regulatory will be finally checks for some things and stamp the transaction.
There are two options here:
Instead of using the default FinalityFlow to notarise, broadcast and record transactions, you can implement your own flow that performs some additional validation before the notarisation step. The limitation here is that the checks are not part of the notary service.
Create your own custom notary. Here, the custom validation checks happen within the notary service. The ability to do this is a recent change to the codebase, as such the documentation has not been updated to reflect the changes, however the source docs can be found on github:
Instructions for creating a custom notary service: https://github.com/corda/corda/blob/9e563f9b98b79a308d68ecb01c80ce61df048310/docs/source/tutorial-custom-notary.rst
Sample custom notary service code: https://github.com/corda/corda/blob/9e563f9b98b79a308d68ecb01c80ce61df048310/docs/source/example-code/src/main/kotlin/net/corda/docs/CustomNotaryTutorial.kt
As Roger notes, you could customise FinalityFlow/implement your own notary.
An alternative would be:
Add a new node to the network representing some regulator
Write the contract rules so that the regulator is a required signer on transactions
Have the regulator do additional checking of the transaction in their flow before signing

Transaction Scope in Pub/Sub + Message Label in Rebus

Currently I'm using WCF as service bus. But I want to switch to a more powerful service bus. I Chose Rebus.
I'm somehow new to Rebus. I have some problems :
1) My data is persisted in a DB table. I want publisher to read all persisted data every n seconds and publishes it to subscribers and then set a sent flag to data in DB.
Is there some timing for publishing?
Reading and publishing and changing (setting flag) data must be done in a transaction scope. Is there any defined solution in Rebus?
2) In Consumer, I want to save published data in some table. Reading message from message queue and saving in DB (in my handler) must be done in transaction scope. How Rebus do this?
3) Message label for published messages set to a random unique string. I want to set my custom label for created MSMQ message. is there any solution?
1) You are on your own when it comes to querying database tables at regular intervals – there's no built-in mechanism in Rebus that does this.
I can recommend you take a look at System.Timers.Timer or something similar.
2) You can enable automatic transaction scopes in your Rebus handlers by using the Rebus.TransactionScopes package.
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