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Bastian Köcher 0c934a9352 ed25519_verify: Support using dalek for historical blocks (#12661)
* ed25519_verify: Support using dalek for historical blocks

The switch from `ed25519-dalek` to `ed25519-zebra` was actually a breaking change. `ed25519-zebra`
is more permissive. To support historical blocks when syncing a chain this pull request introduces
an externalities extension `UseDalekExt`. This extension is just used as a signaling mechanism to
`ed25519_verify` to use `ed25519-dalek` when it is present. Together with `ExtensionBeforeBlock` it
can be used to setup a node in way to sync historical blocks that require `ed25519-dalek`, because
they included a transaction that verified differently as when using `ed25519-zebra`.

This feature can be enabled in the following way. In the chain service file, directly after the
client is created, the following code should be added:

```
use sc_client_api::ExecutorProvider;
client.execution_extensions().set_extensions_factory(
	sc_client_api::execution_extensions::ExtensionBeforeBlock::<Block, sp_io::UseDalekExt>::new(BLOCK_NUMBER_UNTIL_DALEK_SHOULD_BE_USED)
);
```

* Fix doc

* More fixes

* Update client/api/src/execution_extensions.rs

Co-authored-by: André Silva <123550+andresilva@users.noreply.github.com>

* Fix merge and warning

* Fix docs

Co-authored-by: André Silva <123550+andresilva@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-11-27 15:34:07 +00:00
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2020-08-20 17:04:42 +02:00

Substrate externalities abstraction

The externalities mainly provide access to storage and to registered extensions. Extensions are for example the keystore or the offchain externalities. These externalities are used to access the node from the runtime via the runtime interfaces.

This crate exposes the main [Externalities] trait.

License: Apache-2.0