fabric-snaps

Fabric Snaps

A Snap is a fabric extension that implements the Chaincode Shim interface. It is deployed as a system chaincode plugin. The snaps are located at the root of this project. Each snap forms an independently deployable shared object binary.

Install:

• A Git Client
• Go - 1.9 or later
• Docker - 17.06.2-ce or later
• Docker Compose - 1.14.0 or later
• You may need libtool - sudo apt-get install -y libtool (linux) or brew install libtool (macOS)
• You may need GNU tar on macOS - brew install gnu-tar --with-default-names

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/securekey/fabric-snaps
$ make integration-test

(TODO: update this once config moves to the ledger) Each snap contains contains a sample configuration directory. For example, transactionsnap/cmd/sampleconfig. This directory will contain default a yaml configuration file as well as any other configurations that the snap requires.

The snaps present in this project currently depend on a custom version of fabric located at https://github.com/securekey/fabric-next This version of fabric contains certain features that have been cherry-picked, a dynamic build to enable Go plugins, and the 'experimental' build tag set. Please see the README located in the project mentioned above for instructions on how to build this.

Note: The tagged version of fabric-snaps being used must match the corresponding tag in fabric-next. e.g v17.11.1 of fabric-snaps is compatible with v17.11.1 of fabric-next.

To build snaps:

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/securekey/fabric-snaps
$ make snaps

This will produce deployable plugins at build/snaps

To deploy a system chaincode plugin you must define it in the chaincode.systemPlugins section in fabric's core.yaml configuration file and whitelist it in the chaincode.system section. As an example, you can refer to the test configuration file located at bddtests/fixtures/config/fabric/core.yaml lines 458 and 476:

chaincode
  system:
    txnsnap: enable
  systemPlugins:
    - enabled: true
      name: txnsnap
      path: /opt/extsysccs/txnsnap.so
      invokableExternal: true
      invokableCC2CC: true

To mount the snaps and configuration files into the container we use docker volumes. Example, bddtests/fixtures/docker-compose.yml lines 66-69:

    - ../../build/snaps/transactionsnap.so:/opt/extsysccs/transactionsnap.so
    - ./config/snaps/:/opt/extsysccs/config

In order to run fabric-snaps tests against your local environment:

• Modify properties in bddtests/fixtures/clientconfig/config.yaml to point to specific environment. This file includes channel configurations, TLS certs, hosts, ports, MSP(crypto config) directories, timeouts, and security configurations.
• Run all fabric-snaps tests in fabric-snaps/bddtests using the following command DISABLE_COMPOSITION=true go test

Run specific tests using the following commands:

// Smoke tests
$ DISABLE_COMPOSITION=true go test -run smoke
// HTTP Snap tests
$ DISABLE_COMPOSITION=true go test -run httpsnap
// Transaction Snap tests
$ DISABLE_COMPOSITION=true go test -run txnsnap

Test pre-requisites:

• Pre-enrolled admin and user for the specified environment. These certs are read from the MSP Directory whose path is defined by the key client.cryptoconfig.path in the config.yaml file
• Ability to create channel “mychannel”. To generate custom channel config blocks and transactions, use the make target make channel-artifacts. Channel and org names can be configured in the script scripts/generate_channeltx.sh
• Ability to deploy two chaincodes example_cc and httpsnaptest_cc
• External Connectivity for HttpSnap