Is it possible to change a pallet's constant?

[laurogripa]

Hey, folks!

I'm working on adapting Kusama's interfaces to reflect the changes done to the Society pallet (see Gav's PR)

I'm experimenting with Chopsticks lately to make my life easier and I think it's great!

But I think I hit a roadblock... I'm trying to create my own config to set some initial state for the society, I managed to change the storage fairly easily but now I need to change some constants too, both VotingPeriod and ChallengePeriod, but they seem to be hardcoded on the runtime ☹️

What are my options here?

• Is there an easy way to change constants through Chopsticks without a runtime upgrade?
• If no, is there an easy way to do a runtime upgrade?
• I thought about adding Sudo, but when I tried this I got this error: Error: Cannot find pallet Sudo. Is there a way to load the Sudo pallet again on Kusama?

Thanks!

[ermalkaleci]

• unfortunately constants are part of the runtime so can't be changed
• you can use option --wasm-override to run your custom runtime
• you can't added storage for a module that doesn't exists

[ermalkaleci]

@laurogripa you don't really need sudo when you can modify storage or use --mock-signature-host

[xlc]

You can use scheduler to dispatch root origin call to perform runtime upgrade https://hackmd.io/6bKd532rTdaxVX0hmGXX7g#Dispatch-Call

but 99% of the time wasm override is enough

[laurogripa]

@ermalkaleci @xlc

Oh, perfect!

I read the docs and the code looking for something with runtime but ended up overlooking the wasm-override parameter. It worked like a charm, just had to build my own custom runtime and point to it.

you can't added storage for a module that doesn't exists

I know, I know, what I meant is if there was a way to use Chopsticks to load a module that was removed, but wasm-override did the trick anyway :)

I'm going to close this issue as it's solved for me.

Thanks a lot for you attention in such a short time. This project is awesome! 💟