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aionnetwork / node_test_harness

A test harness for functional integration testing the Aion kernel(s)
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What is the rust kernel workflow? #24

Closed aionick closed 5 years ago

aionick commented 5 years ago

We need to figure out how to do the following things with the rust kernel so that we can determine how our current setup needs to be modified in order to support a rust node:

Some other things we may be interested in are the kernel's database, where its log files are stored, and what kind of config options exist.

aionick commented 5 years ago

Maybe we could get @aion-kelvin to write up a quick few sentences about this, so that it's general knowledge and here for everyone (since he worked on this), but otherwise this has been answered.

aion-kelvin commented 5 years ago

Initial implementation -- https://github.com/aionnetwork/node_test_harness/commit/f19377fcbcfb02c3a949426376915cd93606ca22

build the kernel

Not supported in this implementation; the direction of our usage of test harness is away from having the test harness building the kernel

Start the kernel

Starting the Rust kernel is similar to starting the Java kernel -- you launch a process. The main difference is that in order to do meaningful testing with Rust kernel, you need to also start and attach an external miner to the kernel because it lacks a built-in miner. See commit above for how this is done.

stop the kernel

Kill the started process of the Rust kernel. And also the miner.