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Ledger Initialization

Once the two Fabric networks and the Corda network are up and running along with their associated relays and drivers, we must initialize states in those networks to prepare them for interoperation. For the Fabric networks, this involves recording state in the channel ledgers, and for the Corda network, in the nodes' vaults. The configuration and bootstrapping takes different form depending on what interoperability mode you wish to test.

Preparation for Data Sharing

Follow the below instructions to prepare your networks for data sharing tests.

Initializing the Fabric Networks

We use the Fabric CLI (fabric-cli) built earlier (in weaver/samples/fabric/fabric-cli for the Node.js version and weaver/samples/fabric/go-cli for the Golang version) for this purpose.

Configuring the Fabric CLI

During bootstrap, the ledgers in both network1 and network2 must be populated with the following information scoped by the interoperation chaincode:

  • Access control policies governing requests from foreign networks
  • Security group info for foreign networks (i.e., identities of network units and their membership providers' certificate chains)
  • Verification policies for proofs supplied by foreign networks

Knowledge of foreign networks that must be configured in this stage is as follows:

  • network1 has policies and security group info for network2 and Corda_Network
  • network2 has policies and security group info for network1 and Corda_Network

(Corda_Network will be launched later.) The ledgers must also be populated with sample key-value pairs for testing interoperation flows, scoped by the sample application chaincode.

Prepare fabric-cli for configuration suitably as follows.

  • Navigate to the weaver/samples/fabric/fabric-cli (for the Node.js version) or the weaver/samples/fabric/go-cli (for the Golang version) folder.
  • Create a config.json file by copying the config.template.json and setting (or adding or removing) suitable values:
    • For each network, the relay port and connection profile paths are specified using the keys relayPort and connProfilePath respectively.
      • Replace <PATH-TO-WEAVER> with the absolute path location of the weaver folder within your Cacti repository clone.
      • Otherwise, leave the default values unchanged.
  • Create a chaincode.json file by copying the chaincode.json.template and leaving the default values unchanged. This file specified the arguments of the transaction to be locally invoked after fetching a remote view.
  • Create a .env file by copying .env.template and setting the following parameter values:
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the host machine: 
      MEMBER_CREDENTIAL_FOLDER=<PATH-TO-WEAVER>/samples/fabric/fabric-cli/src/data/credentials
DEFAULT_APPLICATION_CHAINCODE=<chaincode-name>
DEFAULT_APPLICATION_FUNC=<function-name>
CONFIG_PATH=./config.json
CHAINCODE_PATH=./chaincode.json
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the Docker containers: 
      MEMBER_CREDENTIAL_FOLDER=<PATH-TO-WEAVER>/samples/fabric/fabric-cli/src/data/credentials_docker
DEFAULT_APPLICATION_CHAINCODE=<chaincode-name>
DEFAULT_APPLICATION_FUNC=<function-name>
CONFIG_PATH=./config.json
CHAINCODE_PATH=./chaincode.json
    • In each case, replace <PATH-TO-WEAVER> with the absolute path location of the weaver folder within your Cacti repository clone and <chaincode-name> with the name of the deployed chaincode, either simplestate or simplestatewithacl.
    • If simplestate is deployed, set <function-name> to Create, and if simplestatewithacl if deployed, set <function-name> to CreateFromRemote.
    • Leave the default values unchanged for the other parameters.
  • Run the following command: 
    ./bin/fabric-cli env set-file ./.env
Notes
If the CONFIG_PATH environment variable is omitted from .env, then you must also run:
./bin/fabric-cli config set-file ./config.json

Bootstrapping Network and Application State

Finally, to prepare both network1 and network2 for interoperation, run:

./bin/fabric-cli configure all network1 network2

If Fabric networks were launched with 2 organizations, run: 

./bin/fabric-cli configure all network1 network2 --num-orgs=2

Instead, if you launched only one of the two Fabric networks, run the following after replacing <network-id> with either network1 or network2, and <1/2> with number of organizations in the network: 

./bin/fabric-cli configure all <network-id> --num-orgs=<1/2>

Wait for at least 5 minutes before moving on to the next step (testing interoperability modes) to allow the networks' IIN Agents to sync their respective memberships (which occur after every 5 minutes by default).

Optionally, fabric-cli can be used to trigger sync manually by running following command: 

./bin/fabric-cli configure membership --local-network=network1 --target-network=network2 --iin-agent-endpoint=localhost:9500
This command syncs network2's membership (target-network) in network1 (local-network) using IIN Agent of Org1MSP as initiator. Similarly network1's membership can be synced to network2's ledger by running: 
./bin/fabric-cli configure membership --local-network=network2 --target-network=network1 --iin-agent-endpoint=localhost:9501
Wait for 20-30 seconds after above commands to allow IIN Agents to finish the sync.

Initializing the Corda Networks

Once the Corda networks are launched, the client applications (built earlier) needs to be exercised to generate network (ledger) state in preparation to test interoperation flows.

Bootstrapping Networks and Application States

Just as we did for either Fabric network, the Corda network ledger (or vault on each node) must be initialized with access control policies, verification policies, and security group information for the two Fabric networks. Further, sample key-value pairs need to be recorded so we can later share them with a Fabric network via an interoperation flow.

Bootstrap the Corda networks and application states as follows (the following instructions will initialize either or both Corda networks, depending on which of those are up and running):

  • Navigate to the weaver/samples/corda/corda-simple-application folder.
  • Run the following:
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the host machine: 
      make initialise-vault
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the Docker containers: 
      make initialise-vault-docker
      Even upon successful execution (as indicated by the console output), you may see errors of the following form: 
      [ERROR] 07:51:17.206 [epollEventLoopGroup-19-1] client.exceptionCaught - AMQ214015: Failed to execute connection life cycle listener
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException: Task org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.actors.ProcessorBase$$Lambda$34/681158875@666df796 rejected from java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@236f653f[Terminated, pool size = 0, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks = 6]
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$AbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:2063) ~[?:1.8.0_402]
..........
      You can ignore these as they are transient errors that don't impact the operations.

Next Steps

The test networks are now configured and their ledgers are initialized. You can now run the data sharing flows.

Preparation for Asset Exchange

Follow the below instructions to prepare your networks for asset exchange tests.

Initializing the Fabric Networks

We use the Fabric CLI (fabric-cli) built earlier (in weaver/samples/fabric/fabric-cli for the Node.js version and weaver/samples/fabric/go-cli for the Golang version) for this purpose.

Configuring the Fabric CLI

The ledgers must be populated with sample key-value pairs for testing interoperation flows, scoped by the sample application chaincode.

Prepare fabric-cli for configuration suitably as follows.

  • Navigate to the weaver/samples/fabric/fabric-cli (for the Node.js version) or the weaver/samples/fabric/go-cli (for the Golang version) folder.
  • Create a config.json file by copying the config.template.json and setting (or adding or removing) suitable values:
    • For each network, the relay port and connection profile paths are specified using the keys relayPort and connProfilePath respectively.
      • Replace <PATH-TO-WEAVER> with the absolute path location of the weaver folder within your Cacti repository clone.
      • Set the chaincode attribute in each network to the deployed chaincode name (simpleasset or simpleassetandinterop or simpleassettransfer).
      • Otherwise, leave the default values unchanged.
  • Create a .env file by copying .env.template and setting following parameter values:
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the host machine: 
      MEMBER_CREDENTIAL_FOLDER=<PATH-TO-WEAVER>/samples/fabric/fabric-cli/src/data/credentials
CONFIG_PATH=./config.json
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the Docker containers: 
      MEMBER_CREDENTIAL_FOLDER=<PATH-TO-WEAVER>/samples/fabric/fabric-cli/src/data/credentials_docker
CONFIG_PATH=./config.json
    • In each case, replace <PATH-TO-WEAVER> with the absolute path location of the weaver folder within your Cacti repository clone.
    • Leave the default values unchanged for the other parameters.
  • Run the following command: 
    ./bin/fabric-cli env set-file ./.env
Notes
If the CONFIG_PATH environment variable is omitted from .env, then you must also run:
./bin/fabric-cli config set-file ./config.json

Bootstrapping Network and Application State

Finally, to prepare both network1 and network2 for interoperation, run:

./scripts/initAsset.sh

Initializing the Corda Networks

Corda Network needs to be initialized with assets for asset-exchange to be performed: Bootstrap the Corda network and application states as follows:

  • Navigate to the weaver/samples/corda/corda-simple-application folder.
  • Run the following:
    • For cordaSimpleApplication app, run: 
      ./scripts/initAsset.sh

Initializing the Besu Networks

Let's assume that network1 can either manage NFT AliceERC721 or Hybrid AliceERC1155 tokens, while network2 manages fungible BobERC20 tokens. Here we use account 1 for Alice and account 2 for Bob in both neworks. To prepare Besu networks for asset exchange, navigate to the weaver/samples/besu/besu-cli and then follow the steps in next subsections.

Configuring the Besu-CLI

Create a config.json file by copying the config.template.json, keep the default values for managing AliceERC721 tokens in network1 and BobERC20 tokens in network2. If you want to change the token type used in the network1 to Hybrid AliceERC1155 tokens, in config.json update tokenContract field with value "../simpleasset/build/contracts/AliceERC1155.json".

Bootstrapping Network and Application State

Finally, to prepare both network1 and network2 for interoperation, run:

  • If you wish to test the default exchange (ERC-20 tokens for ERC-721 tokens), run:: 
    ./scripts/initAsset.sh
    This will issue 100 BobERC20 tokens to each account in network2 and AliceERC721 token with id 0 to Alice and id 1 to Bob in network1.
  • Instead, if you wish to test Alice's exchange of ERC-1155 tokens for Bob's ERC-20 tokens, run: 
    ./scripts/initAsset.sh hybrid
    This will issue 100 BobERC20 tokens to each account in network2 and 100 AliceERC1155 tokens with id 0 to Alice and id 1 to Bob in network1.

Next Steps

The test networks are now configured and their ledgers are initialized. You can now run the asset exchange flows.

Preparation for Asset Transfer

Follow the below instructions to prepare your networks for asset transfer tests.

Initializing the Fabric Networks

We use the Fabric CLI (fabric-cli) built earlier (in weaver/samples/fabric/fabric-cli for the Node.js version and weaver/samples/fabric/go-cli for the Golang version) for this purpose.

Configuring the Fabric CLI

During bootstrap, the ledgers in both network1 and network2 must be populated with the following information scoped by the interoperation chaincode:

  • Access control policies governing requests from foreign networks
  • Security group info for foreign networks (i.e., identities of network units and their membership providers' certificate chains)
  • Verification policies for proofs supplied by foreign networks

Knowledge of foreign networks that must be configured in this stage is as follows:

  • network1 has policies and security group info for network2 and Corda_Network
  • network2 has policies and security group info for network1 and Corda_Network

(The Corda sample application doesn't support asset transfer yet, but there is no harm in including it above.) The ledgers must also be populated with sample key-value pairs for testing interoperation flows, scoped by the sample application chaincode.

Prepare fabric-cli for configuration suitably as follows.

  • Navigate to the weaver/samples/fabric/fabric-cli folder (the Go CLI doesn't support asset transfer yet).
  • Create a config.json file by copying the config.template.json and setting (or adding or removing) suitable values:
    • For each network, the relay port and connection profile paths are specified using the keys relayPort and connProfilePath respectively.
      • Replace <PATH-TO-WEAVER> with the absolute path location of the weaver folder within your Cacti repository clone.
      • Set the chaincode attribute in each network to simpleassettransfer.
      • Set the aclPolicyPrincipalType attribute in network2 to ca.
      • Otherwise, leave the default values unchanged.
  • Create remote-network-config.json file by copying remote-network-config.json.template. Use default values if relays and drivers are deployed in the host machine; else if they are deployed in Docker, update as follows:
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for network1 as relay-network1:9080.
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for network2 as relay-network2:9083.
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for Corda_Network as relay-corda:9081.
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for Corda_Network2 as relay-corda2:9082.
    • Update value for partyEndPoint for Corda_Network as corda_partya_1:10003.
    • Update value for partyEndPoint for Corda_Network2 as corda_network2_partya_1:10003.
  • Create chaincode.json file by copying chaincode.json.template. Keep the default values unchanged.
  • Create a .env file by copying .env.template and setting the following parameter values:
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the host machine: 
      MEMBER_CREDENTIAL_FOLDER=<PATH-TO-WEAVER>/samples/fabric/fabric-cli/src/data/credentials
DEFAULT_APPLICATION_CHAINCODE=simpleassettransfer
CONFIG_PATH=./config.json
REMOTE_CONFIG_PATH=./remote-network-config.json
CHAINCODE_PATH=./chaincode.json
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the Docker containers: 
      MEMBER_CREDENTIAL_FOLDER=<PATH-TO-WEAVER>/samples/fabric/fabric-cli/src/data/credentials_docker
DEFAULT_APPLICATION_CHAINCODE=simpleassettransfer
CONFIG_PATH=./config.json
REMOTE_CONFIG_PATH=./remote-network-config.json
CHAINCODE_PATH=./chaincode.json
    • In each case, replace <PATH-TO-WEAVER> with the absolute path location of the weaver folder within your Cacti repository clone.
    • Leave the default values unchanged for the other parameters.
  • Run the following command: 
    ./bin/fabric-cli env set-file ./.env
Notes
If the CONFIG_PATH environment variable is omitted from .env, then you must also run:
./bin/fabric-cli config set-file ./config.json

Bootstrapping Network and Application State

Create appropriate access control and verification policies for network1 and network2 by running:

./bin/fabric-cli configure create all --local-network=network1
./bin/fabric-cli configure create all --local-network=network2

Load access control and verification policies onto the ledgers of network1 and network2 by running (replace <1/2> with number of organizations in the network):

./bin/fabric-cli configure network --local-network=network1 --num-orgs=<1/2>
./bin/fabric-cli configure network --local-network=network2 --num-orgs=<1/2>

Wait for at least 5 minutes before moving on to the next step (testing interoperability modes) to allow the networks' IIN Agents to sync their respective memberships (which occur after every 5 minutes by default).

Optionally, fabric-cli can be used to trigger sync manually by running following command: 

./bin/fabric-cli configure membership --local-network=network1 --target-network=network2 --iin-agent-endpoint=localhost:9500
This command syncs network2's membership (target-network) in network1 (local-network) using IIN Agent of Org1MSP as initiator. Similarly network1's membership can be synced to network2's ledger by running: 
./bin/fabric-cli configure membership --local-network=network2 --target-network=network1 --iin-agent-endpoint=localhost:9501
Wait for 20-30 seconds after above commands to allow IIN Agents to finish the sync.

Initialize bond and token asset states and ownerships on the network1 ledger by running the following (this step will also create a user alice in network1 and a user bob in network2):

./scripts/initAssetsForTransfer.sh

Initializing the Corda Networks

Once the Corda networks (Corda_Network and Corda_Network2) are launched, the client applications (built earlier) needs to be exercised to generate ledger state in both exporting/source and importing/destination networks in preparation to test asset transfer interoperation flows.

Bootstrapping Networks and Application States

The Corda network ledger (or vault on each node) must be initialized with access control policies, verification policies, and security group information for the other networks (two Fabric networks and other Corda network).

Bootstrap the Corda networks and application states as follows (the following instructions will initialize either or both Corda networks, depending on which of those are up and running):

  • Navigate to the weaver/samples/corda/corda-simple-application folder.
  • Run the following: 
    cp clients/src/main/resources/config/remote-network-config.json.template clients/src/main/resources/config/remote-network-config.json
    Use default values in remote-network-config.json if relays and drivers are deployed in the host machine; else if they are deployed in Docker, update as follows:
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for network1 as relay-network1:9080.
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for network2 as relay-network2:9083.
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for Corda_Network as relay-corda:9081.
    • Update value for relayEndpoint for Corda_Network2 as relay-corda2:9082.
    • Update value for partyEndPoint for Corda_Network as corda_partya_1:10003.
    • Update value for partyEndPoint for Corda_Network2 as corda_network2_partya_1:10003.
  • Run the following:
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the host machine: 
      make initialise-vault-asset-transfer
    • If Relays and Drivers are deployed in the Docker containers: 
      make initialise-vault-asset-transfer-docker
      Even upon successful execution (as indicated by the console output), you may see errors of the following form: 
      [ERROR] 07:51:17.206 [epollEventLoopGroup-19-1] client.exceptionCaught - AMQ214015: Failed to execute connection life cycle listener
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException: Task org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.actors.ProcessorBase$$Lambda$34/681158875@666df796 rejected from java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@236f653f[Terminated, pool size = 0, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks = 6]
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$AbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:2063) ~[?:1.8.0_402]
..........
      You can ignore these as they are transient errors that don't impact the operations.

Next Steps

The test networks are now configured and their ledgers are initialized. You can now run the asset transfer flows.