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.
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We are building a POC using Corda 4 and Springboot web server.
The POC is running in DEV MODE in our local network using PostgreSQL as database
The CorDapp developed for POC has four nodes -
Provider Node (Node 1)
Consumer 1 Node (Node 2)
Consumer 2 Node (Node 3)
Notary Node
All the above nodes participate in a deal. A deal consists of three worflows -
Flow 1 : data flows from Node 1 to Node 2
Flow 2 : data flows from Node 2 to Node 1 and Node 3
Flow 3 : data flows from Node 3 to Node 1 and Node 2
When all the three flows are executed the deal is FINISHED.
Suppose "DEAL 1" is started and "Flow 1" and 'Flow 2" are executed. Also for "DEAL 1" assuming "IOUContract.class" is used.
Due to new requirements, contract changed and a new contract class file "IOUContractv2.class" was created.
Now the application has two contracts -
"IOUContract.class" --- Used by "DEAL 1"
"IOUContractv2.class" --- Will be used by new deals
When I am linking above contract classes to the "State" using "BelongsToContract" annotation, the compiler does not allow repeated use of the same annotation.
#BelongsToContract(IOUContract::class)
#BelongsToContract(IOUContractv2::class)
data class State(val iou: IOU,
val sender: Party,
val recipient: Party,
var recipient2: Party,
val state: WorkflowState = WorkflowState.NEW,
override val linearId: UniqueIdentifier = UniqueIdentifier(iou.bndId.toString())) : LinearState, QueryableState {
Questions:
How can I make both contracts use the same state?
Is my method to use two contracts wrong?
Can an aplication have only one Contract?
How to finish the execution of old "Deals" that used old contracts?
To make sure "What you see is what I see", we have "states" in Corda. States evolve over time. This evolution is governed by a set of rules. These rules are written in a "contract". A state transition is always associated with one contract at any point of time. As you have mentioned, you may wish to change these rules. In this case, you have to do a contract upgrade as Alessandro rightly pointed out. Since you are using Corda 4, you can use implicit Signature Constraints to do the contract upgrade. Follow below steps to upgrade your contract.
Stop your node.
Sign the jar. By default, if you do not disable signing in Corda
version 4, the jar is signed when you run the deployNodes task. Stop your node.
Sign the jar. To externally sign the jar use the jarsigner. By default, if you do not disable signing in Corda version 4, the jar is signed when you run the deployNodes task.
Replace the old jar with this newly signed jar.
Replace the old jar with this newly signed jar.
I am getting column "identity_value" is of type byte error while running the Corda node. I am trying to use one existing schema(party_a_schema) for one of my cordapp. I have updated the node.conf file for that node.
After basic analysis, I have found that to use a schema over multiple cordapp in Corda open-source platform, we must execute the below DDL statement.
CREATE SEQUENCE my_schema.hibernate_sequence INCREMENT BY 1 MINVALUE 1 MAXVALUE 9223372036854775807 START 8 CACHE 1 NO CYCLE;
At the time of script execution, I am getting this error
Above issue has been resolved. This happens when you do a clean deployNodes many times, in which case your node files are deleted (including the truststores,keys,certificates,nodeinfo files) but these are not deleted from the database. Eventually, you corrupt the database with a new entry being added each time you deploy the node, and hence eventually the node does not start properly.
Ideally in production when you deploy, when you deploy your cordapp for the first time all the required tables are created, node info files, identities , certificates etc. Later if you want to make any changes ideally what you do is upgrade your cordapp and perform database migrations (you dont clean up your entire database).
Hence, in development mode when you connect to an external database, whenever you do a clean deployNodes on the terminal also clean up your database.
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.
We are building a POC using Corda and Springboot web server.
Following are the versions of Corda platform, Springboot server, and other essential dependencies used for building the POC-
cordaReleaseGroup=net.corda
cordaVersion=4.0
gradlePluginsVersion=4.0.45
kotlinVersion=1.2.71
junitVersion=4.12
quasarVersion=0.7.10
spring_version = '4.3.11.RELEASE'
spring_boot_version = '2.0.2.RELEASE'
spring_boot_gradle_plugin_version = '2.1.1.RELEASE'
jvmTarget = "1.8"
log4jVersion =2.11.2
platformVersion=4
slf4jVersion=1.7.25
nettyVersion=4.1.22.Final
The CorDapp developed for POC has four nodes -
Notary Node
Provider Company Node
Consumer Company 1 Node
Consumer Company 1 Sub Contact Node
The POC is running in dev mode in our local network.
We require to test the POC in the Corda Testnet.
We went through the following documentation on Corda Testnet -
1: Join Corda TestNet
URL : https://docs.corda.net/releases/release-V4.0/corda-testnet-intro.html?highlight=joining%20corda%20testnet
2: Deploying Corda to Corda Testnet from your local environment
https://docs.corda.net/releases/release-V4.0/deploy-locally.html?highlight=deploying%20corda%20corda%20testnet%20from%20your%20local%20environment
We understood from the above documentation that we can download only one "Corda node" using one registration. Will we have to join the Corda Testnet using four different accounts in order to download four Corda nodes?
Is our understanding correct?
As per my understanding you can spin up multiple nodes with a refresh of the Testnet node installation page, or by creating a node and then clicking 'next', which should take you back to the node list and present a button to allow creation of another node.
It should provide you with a unique ONE_TIME_DOWNLOAD_KEY each time, and automatically assign you a randomised alphanumeric O (organisation) value to use within the nodes configuration file, helping the network map (and thus other nodes on the network) to distinguish your nodes individually.
Make sure you don't unintentionally run copies of the same node with the same identity, otherwise the network map will just assume there has been a change in the address of the original node and route P2P traffic to the newest instance.
Take a look at the node.conf docs to understand node configuration further:
https://docs.corda.net/corda-configuration-file.html
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