Support for Plutus Core backend #212

Open kwannoel opened 2 years ago

In GitLab by @kwanzknoel on Jul 26, 2021, 23:48

Support for Plutus Core backend

TODO

Design Glow IR. This will either be interpreted / compiled to plutus core.
Off-chain communication with plutus core. Plutus smart contract support is still not yet available on testnets. However, we can use the plc executable provided in plutus-core as a means of "off-chain" communication.
We will need plc executable / plutus-core haskell libraries if we want to run plutus-core code in glow.

Setup Plutus Core

git clone git@github.com:input-output-hk/plutus.git
Setup binary caches: https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#how-to-set-up-the-iohk-binary-caches.
Setup plutus-core executables: https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus/tree/master/plutus-core#via-nix.

Sanity check for Plutus Core

Apply

Input

echo "(program 1.0.0 \
  (lam x \
    (con integer) \
    [(builtin multiplyInteger) (con integer 2) x]))" > two-times-x.plc

echo "(program 1.0.0 \
  (con integer 3))" > three.plc

./plc apply --if textual two-times-x.plc three.plc -o two-times-three.plc
cat two-times-three.plc

Output

(program 1.0.0
  [
    (lam x_0 (con integer) [ [ (builtin multiplyInteger) (con integer 2) ] x_0 ]
    )
    (con integer 3)
  ]
)

Eval

Input

./plc evaluate -i two-times-three.plc

Output

(con integer 6)

Investigate state of `glow/cardano`

Does not compile glow DApps to plutus-core. Instead, it uses the State Machine contract (See: Plutus Pioneers Program - State Machine for a step-by-step explanation) which provides Smart Contract Backend (SCB) (now renamed more accurately to Plutus Application Backend (PAB)) and the on-chain code.

Using output from glow, it interprets relevant sections into HTTP calls to interact with the state machine on-chain code. The HTTP API / CLI is provided by the SCB of the state machine contract (see: glow/cardano/scripts/execute-contract, where closing DApp is being interpreted).

This is an interesting approach, however it is not what we want as we need to target plutus-core directly.

Investigate `plutus-pab`

Plutus Application Backend (PAB) is used by clients to interface with contracts, and manage state of plutus contract instances.

Eventually we might have to reproduce certain features from this.

What we need for off-chain:

Deployment for Plutus Core.
Low level interface to interact with on-chain plutus core. PAB provides a high level interface, for interacting with Plutus.Contract.

As such it seems more appropriate to use plc / import the plutus core library to interface locally with plutus core, until there is actual on-chain support for plutus core code.

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