When running tests against non-simulated blockchain nodes, even for simplex
Smart Contracts, deployment transactions would exceed the block gas limit.
E.g. running `embark blockchain` in one process and `embark test --node embark`
in another, inside our demo application, will throw an error when Embark attempts
to deploy its `SimpleStorage`:
```
Compiling contracts
Compilation done
[SimpleStorage]: error deploying =SimpleStorage= due to error: Returned error: exceeds block gas limit
Error deploying contracts. Please fix errors to continue.
Error deploying contracts. Please fix errors to continue.
terminating due to error
Error deploying contracts. Please fix errors to continue.
```
The reason for that is because in https://github.com/embark-framework/embark/pull/1650, we've introduced a static
gas estimation for Smart Contract deployment that is just right below Ganache's
maximum gas limit of `6721975`, since Ganache tends to underestimate gas for
complex Smart Contracts due to its [low base fee](8ad1ab29de/lib/utils/gasEstimation.js (L33-L39)).
The static gas estimation would apply any time we're in a test context, but we
didn't take into account the case where tests are executed against nodes
other than the simulated environment.
As mentioned in the comments in the linked PR:
> If this is not spec'ed at all, I wonder what complications it could cause when
> at some point we maybe switch to not using Ganache anymore for tests, or even
> the user itself (which I think is a reasonable thing to do).
This causes the error described above because we easily reach the block gas limit
with just two Smart Contracts and Embark already deploys a few Smart Contracts for
ENS.
So basically what we want is to use the static gas estimation when we know
the node we're connecting to is Ganache. In all other cases we can rely on the
standardized gas estimation offered by the node.
Adjust the API endpoints to augment transaction objects with a timestamp
property from their corresponding blocks. This removes the necessity to copy
the timestamp property from a block to its transactions in the client.
Introduce a `formatTimestampForDisplay` util function in Cockpit for
consistently transforming timestamps into relative or absolute dates, depending
on whether a date is sometime during the last day.
This PR adds a command to get full account details from the contradts config that includes info like private key.
The existing, and similar command, `blockchain:provider:contract:accounts:get` would only return account addresses if they existed, and not the full account info.
This enables removing unnecessary `core/fs` dependencies which can be
replaced with `fs-extra`.
This commit also fixes a bug introduced in f868d1216d
where methods from `embark.fs` weren't available.
The reason for that is because we have several *Process instances
that are created through child process communication, specifically
process.send() APIs. Using those APIs, we can only send data structures
however, methods attached on any of those will get lost.
This is the case when sending embark.fs through process.send().
We still need fs in those places though, mostly because they are relying
on embarkPath and dappPath().
These places are now importing those functions from `embark-core`. Other
API such as writeFile or mkdirp() can be accessed through fs-extra
or fs modules.
Pascal Precht
Michael Bradley, Jr
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