Updated the local network simulation scripts to use the REST interface
for connecting the validator client to the beacon node. Otherwise, the
current scripts produce errors.
* Concentrate all sensitive writeFile/createPath calls in one place.
Fix eth2_network_simulation for Windows.
* Remove artifacts.
* fix import
Co-authored-by: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>
- better logging & retrying requests on the VC side if the BN fails for some reason
- VC now fetches the attestation duties 1 epoch in advance - in the future it will tell the BN to subscribe to the appropriate attestation topics in advance based on that info
- a bunch of other code cleanup & fixes such as better naming for consoles when using multitail, etc.
reviewed in PR #1184 - proper review of the API & VC are pending
- each BN gets half of its previous validators as inProcess and the other half goes to the respective VC for that BN - using separate data dirs where the keys are copied
- also removed a few command line options which are no longer necessary
- block proposals originating from a VC are propagated from one BN to the rest properly
- other cleanup & moving code back to since it is no longer used elsewhere
- we have a new binary which connects via RPC to the respective BN and has an internal clock - waking it up on every slot
- the BN has a new option called --external-validators and currently in order to have the VC binaries to run we need to pass EXTERNAL_VALIDATORS=yes to make
- factored some code out of beacon_node.nim for easier reuse in validator_api.nim and validator_client.nim
- the VC loads its associated private keys from the datadir for its BN
- most of the validator API calls have been implemented as a stub.
- the VC polls its BN at the start of each epoch - getting a list of all active validators for the current epoch - and then continues to request blocks and sign them with its appropriate validators when necessary
* refactor --verify-finalization from run_node to only be invoked via eth2_network_simulation and local sim; clean up various shell issues
* remove hardcoded --verify-finalization in launch_local_testnet
* re-enable test_interop based on zcli with 0.9.1 specs and update initialize_beacon_state_from_eth1(...) to 0.9.1
* switch many procs to funcs
* fix import os.nim instead; ospaths is deprecated [Deprecated] warnings
The number of user nodes is now specified with `USER_NODES`.
To make the instructions more stable, the "numeric id" of the user
nodes will be starting from 0 (so you can always use `run_node.sh 0`
to start a user node).
If you specify a node index above the total number of nodes, you'll
launch a node without any validators attached (this is useful for
testing the sync for example).
The shell expansion syntax used in the run_node script was not handled properly
by the bash shell shipped with macOS. In particular, it was not able to handle
range expressions involving interpolated vars:
cp foo/{$FIRST_INDEX..$LAST_INDEX} ...
Etan Kissling
zah
Dustin Brody
Eugene Kabanov
Viktor Kirilov
Ștefan Talpalaru
Jacek Sieka
Yuriy Glukhov