Hive Integration

[carver]

What is wrong?

Trinity is not included on hive tests: http://hivetests.ethstats.net/

How can it be fixed

Information on where to get started:

• See https://github.com/karalabe/hive/blob/master/README.md
• Here's the old pyethereum integration: https://github.com/karalabe/hive/tree/master/clients/pyethereum:develop
• Here's how geth integration looks: https://github.com/ethereum/hive/tree/master/clients/go-ethereum_master

One dockerfile, and one shellscript to init, load blocks, and start rpc services.
The shellscript translates env vars into client-specific configuration

(Info courtesy of @holiman and of course, karalabe)

[pipermerriam]

Lets put this in the next milestone. @carver you want to create that and pick a name?

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   Have already started work on this. Currently have the dockerfile up and running, just need to get the bash script working. Will get a WIP pull request here soon so that the progress can be easily viewed there.

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[pipermerriam]

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[cpurta]

Dockerfile is working correctly with just running trinity. Working on getting the script to load a genesis file, blocks, and then run. It seems like trinity does not allow for an easy way to allow a private network genesis block. Would it seem necessary to also try and make changes to allow trinity to specify a genesis block?

[carver]

Would it seem necessary to also try and make changes to allow trinity to specify a genesis block?

Yes, that appears to be a requirement for Hive integration. I don't believe anyone else is working on #722 yet.

[cpurta]

Also it appears that trinity does not have the option to import blocks similar to geth. Is this something that should also be handled in this issue or perhaps creating a new issue for that feature?

[carver]

I don't think it needs its own issue. Should just be a few lines: decode the rlp bytes to an object, and then use the chain.import_block() method. (Which is not meant to diminish this issue overall: it's not a tiny project to get Hive integrated)

[pipermerriam]

FYI, I added some more explanation to #722 to try and provide some guidance on how it should be implemented. There is going to be some figuring out that needs to be done but hopefully that steers things in the right direction.

[cpurta]

@pipermerriam @carver appreciate the feedback. It will help a lot with getting this finished. Just starting working on implementing both of those features.

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[cpurta]

Just finishing up some of the changes to allow trinity to use a private genesis block. Will be getting a PR up soon. Then will work on importing blocks. Once those are finialized it’ll just be an update to the start script in hive.

[pipermerriam]

@cpurta we highly prefer pull requests to be opened as soon as there is anything to show rather than waiting till they are done. This allows us to give preliminary feedback on your approach (which can save you a lot of time in the case your approach isn't viable). Why don't you open whatever you have now and mark it as a "work in progress".

[cpurta]

@carver I am beginning to scope out what is needed for importing blocks to the chain. Would it seems beneficial to add another option to the chain_parser arguments (--import) to specify a rlp file? Then after the data_dir is initialized to then decode and load the blocks.