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6.3.1. Detailed Setup

6.3.1. Detailed Setup

Detailed setup instructions for a new Luther application.

Welcome to the Getting Started section!

The following information will help you to start building your application right away.

Environment Setup

Prerequisite Tools

Git LFS

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise. You need Git LFS installed to clone this repo fully and for the tests to run. Instructions for installing Git LFS can be found here: https://git-lfs.github.com/

NB: If you're using Darwin and have brew installed, go to your terminal and enter: brew install git-lfs

After cloning the repo, you need to to run git lfs install to setup lfs on for repo.

Homebrew provide a coreutils package containing greadlink (GNU readlink). This allows you to print the value of a symlink or canonical file name. You can install it through brew with brewinstall coreutils

Pinata

Building the project requires Pinata, which can be obtained from https://hub.docker.com/r/uber/ssh-agent-forward

Follow the four installation steps on that page, and then type pinata-ssh-forward to start Pinata. You don't need to worry about pinata-ssh-mount as the Makefile scripts do that part automatically.

Finally, you will need to load your private keys into ssh using ssh-add

Git Hooks

Run the install-git-hooks.sh script to install git hooks after you initially clone the repository.

./scripts/install-git-hooks.sh

NB: It is best to setup Git LFS before running this script (see above for information on Git LFS).

Formatting and linting

We recommend using yasi for formatting lisp files. You can install it by running: pip3 install --upgrade yasi We use a specific configuration file and run it with the following flags to ensure we format consistently across the team:

yasi --no-exit --no-backup --no-warning --no-output --indent-comments --uniform --default-indent 2 --dialect clojure <file>

Note that the configuration must be in the current directory for it to be automatically picked up. We've created format make recipes to make it easy to run the format. You can run make format from the root or the phylum directory. Additionally the git hooks will run the format command each time to ensure all the commit code is always formatted, please make sure to install the git hooks per above instructions.

Editor setup

You can configure your editor to run the format on every save. Note that you need to use the same config file. yasi will look for the config file in the current directory first, and if it doesn't find it, it will look in the home directory. You can create a soft link from your home directory to the real config file. There's a script that can do this for you, just run:

./scripts/install-yasi-config.sh
 "emeraldwalk.runonsave": {
    "commands": [
       {
       "match": "\\.lisp$",
       "cmd": "yasi --no-exit --no-backup --no-warning --no-output --indent-comments --uniform --default-indent 2 --dialect clojure ${file}"
       }
    ]
 }
  • Goland/IntelliJ: You can use file watchers to run the above command on lisp file saves

NOTE: When you download a new version of the substrate plugin, you'll need to manually update the value of the SUBSTRATE_PLUGIN_FILE environment variable as it contains the version number, in the default go test config and all the existing run configurations. We recommend installing Goland 2020.1 as it adds better go modules support and features around setting default environment variable for tests which we can utilise to simplify the setup. Due to the usage of go plugin for running the substrate the build environment has to be match what it was when the substrate plugin was built. We need to replicate all the configuration in the IDE to be able to run the tests through the IDE and get syntax working correctly.

  1. Configuring GOROOT You need to have the exact version of go as specified in .go-version The easiest way to set this to required version is by installing that version of go directly, e.g. through brew on Darwin as opposed to using goenv. After installing the specified version, navigate to Preferences > Go > GOROOT and ensure the correct version is selected.
  2. Configuring build tags for setting up syntax highlighting in test files Navigate to Preferences > Go > 'Build Tags and Vendoring' and add all to the custom tags input field. We'll utilise this custom tag when setting up test configurations.
  3. Configuring the Go test template (requires at least Goland 2020.1) This will configure the defaults for test and allow you to create new valid test configs through the UI, for example when you click the run test button next to a certain test function, you'll be able to run that test without additional config.

NOTE:
Configuring the default go tests allow you to profile the code through the UI as well! There are 2 environment variables which you need to set to custom values before each test, and any go command in general; GOPATH and SUBSTRATE_PLUGIN_FILE. There's a script that automates this process however there's no way of utilising it automatically in the IDE. Run that script to download the latest substrate plugin and by looking at the exported variables, find the valid values for the GOPATH and SUBSTRATE_PLUGIN_FILE env vars (as of now the GOPATH value is /tmp/substrateplugingopath) Navigate to Run > Edit Configurations... > Templates > Go Test.

  • Set both env vars to the values you recorded in the last step.

  • Tick the 'Use all custom build tags' checkbox.

  • Add the following to the 'Go tool arguments' input box: -parallel 50. Feel free to experiment with this value and add additional relevant arguments in the future. Now every new test config that you create will automatically contain these 2 environment variables.

Optional: A default run all configuration can be found in ./.run/go_test.run.xml Goland will automatically load this configuration for you (requires 2020.1+) You can use it to run the tests. You may also wish to create a run configuration for the different go test tags, this will allow you to run all the tests relevant to a feature.





Auth Flow

Scaffold is configurable to allow users to authenticate using any number of IDPs that support OAuth2 (see UserAuthentications description in the API docs).

Users specify one or more UserAuthentications which reference existing AuthenticationProviders in the system. The AuthenticationProviders define IDP settings that are used to authenticate and validate the tokens generated by the IDP.

We expect the ID Token JWT generated during the OAuth2.0 flow by the IDP to be included in the request as a cookie (under the "authorization" field). E.g.,

export COOKIE="authorization=$ID_TOKEN"

where $ID_TOKEN is generated by the IDP.

The oracle then cracks open that JWT and inspects the issuer (iss) and subject (sub), as well as validates the "expires at" (eat) and issued at "iat" claims.

The oracle will query the blockchain for the AuthenticationProvider settings for the specified issuer ("iss"). If the JWT validates, then the token is included in a transaction as transient data, and further on-chain validation looks up the corresponding user using the (issuer "iss", subject "sub") pair, and confirms that the user indeed has specified that AuthenticationProvider as part of their UserAuthentication. The AuthenticationProvider settings may also specify an "audience" field which is a constant that is used to compare against the "aud" claim in the token. This mechanism allows the IDP to generate tokens only to be used for a single service.

For a complete description of JWTs and these claims, see 1.

All requests must specify an integration API Key using the "X-API-Key" header.

Special Test Endpoints & Fake IDP

There is a special "Fake IDP" that is used to generate ID_TOKENs for testing purposes. This endpoint requires your API_KEY to be set to a special Luther key. When testing locally, the API_KEY you specify in your environment will have this privileges. Example usage of the fake IDP:

curl -X POST -H "X-API-Key: $API_KEY" --data '{"iss":"Luther Systems Test IDP","sub":"martin","aud":"luther"}' -s localhost:8080/test/fakeidp/token  | jq

This will output an ID_TOKEN with claims "iss", "sub" and "aud", in this case allowing you to set a COOKIE that will authenticate you as the special "martin" user. See descriptions in the above section for these claims.





Request Archiver

The request archiver feature enables archiving of request information to S3 for test environments. When enabled, archived requests can be retrieved using a test endpoint: /test/request. This requires a valid admin API key. To use this endpoint, supply the request as a parameter. For example:

curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $(aws_api_key integ)" \
  https://integration.luthersystemsapp.com/test/request?request_id=REQUEST_ID | jq





Known Issues

Docker may complain that it does not have ECR access. This is a bug in our make dependencies where make docker-login target is being skipped. If you see this error make sure to run:

make docker-login

explicitly. You must have valid AWS credentials set in your environment in order for this make target to succeed.

If this message occurs during a Go test run with ./scripts/go-substrate-wrapper.sh

 Error downloading object: api/pb/oracle.pb.go (80d718e): Smudge error: Error downloading api/pb/oracle.pb.go (80d718e7030d5113aa98a4be0621fa44f1ddfff969abf824ce79caac4ca530ed): batch request: missing protocol: ""

Try deleting /tmp/substrateplugingopath/ with sudo:

sudo rm -rf /tmp/substrateplugingopath/

If this message occurs during a make mem-up

 go build github.com/spf13/cast: mkdir /tmp/go-build357730645/b338/: no space left on device
 go build github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman: mkdir /tmp/go-build357730645/b339/: no space left on device
 go build github.com/subosito/gotenv: mkdir /tmp/go-build357730645/b340/: no space left on device
 go build gopkg.in/ini.v1: mkdir /tmp/go-build357730645/b341/: no space left on device
 go build gopkg.in/yaml.v2: mkdir /tmp/go-build357730645/b342/: no space left on device
 make: *** [/opt/Dockerfile.godynamic.mk:17: build] Error 1

Try docker system prune to remove unused containers, networks, images (both dangling and unreferenced).

If this message occurs during make up or make mem-up

Error connecting to agent: Connection refused

You've likely forgotten to run pinata-ssh-forward, retry after running this.





Git Workflow

All tests in master branch should always pass.

  • It should always be safe to cut a release off master.
  • Code should always be merged to master through a Pull Request (PR).
  • Follow the 7 rules of a git commit and git commit message guide.
  • Builds should be reproducible.
  • Set your email for this repo, e.g.:
git config user.email "firstName.lastName@luthersystems.com"

Upgrading Substrate Versions

Edit SUBSTRATE_VERSION in common.mk.

NOTE If possible the Goland configurations in .run also should be updated as the environment variables will now be outdated.





Go mod

export GO111MODULE=on
git config --global url."git@bitbucket.org:".insteadOf "https://bitbucket.org/"
go env -w GOPRIVATE=bitbucket.org/luthersystems





References

ELPS Language Guide RFC7519


                         UI
                         +                
                         |                
         +---------------v--------------+
         |                              +<----+ Swagger Specification:
         |             API              |       api/swagger/oracle.swagger.json
         +--------------+---------------+       
         |                              |
         |        Oracle Service        |
         |     oracleserv/oracle/       |
         +---+--------------+---------+-+
             |              |
     gRPC -> |              |
+------------v------+       |
|  PDF service      |       |
| substrate/pdfserv |       |
+-------------------+       |
               JSON-RPC     |
               +------------v-----------+
               |  shiroclient gateway   |
               |  substrate/shiroclient |
               +-------------+----------+
                             |
                             | JSON-RPC
 +---------------------------v--------------------------+
 |                   Phylum Business Logic              |
 |                    phylum/                           |
 +------------------------------------------------------+
 |               Substrate Chaincode                    |
 +------------------------------------------------------+
 |            Hyperledger Fabric Services               |
 +------------------------------------------------------+





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