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Bastian Köcher ce97b6e5c4 Make it possible to calculate the storage root as often as you want (#7714)
* Make it possible to calculate the storage as often as you want

So, until now each Substrate based blockchain has calculated the storage
root once, at the end of the block. Now there is Frontier that wants to
calculate some intermediate storage root. However this failed on block
import. The problem with that was the extrinsics root. When building the
block we stored `Default::default()` as extrinsics root, because yeah,
we don't know the extrinsics root before finishing the block. At the end
this extrinsics root was then calculated. But on block import we passed
the already known extrinsics root. This was no problem, as we removed
this value at the end of the block. However when you all the storage
root in between, that changes the storage root between block building
and block import.

This pr changes this behavior. It removes the `ExtrinsicsRoot` storage
entry and also doesn't pass it anymore to `System::initialize`. By doing
it, we remove the difference in the storage and fix the storage root mismatch.

* Fix bug with incorrectly calculating the extrinscs root

* Review feedback
2020-12-21 18:08:22 +01:00
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2020-09-22 19:47:38 +02:00

Randomness Module

The Randomness Collective Flip module provides a random function that generates low-influence random values based on the block hashes from the previous 81 blocks. Low-influence randomness can be useful when defending against relatively weak adversaries. Using this pallet as a randomness source is advisable primarily in low-security situations like testing.

Public Functions

See the Module struct for details of publicly available functions.

Usage

Prerequisites

Import the Randomness Collective Flip module and derive your module's configuration trait from the system trait.

Example - Get random seed for the current block

use frame_support::{decl_module, dispatch, traits::Randomness};

pub trait Config: frame_system::Config {}

decl_module! {
	pub struct Module<T: Config> for enum Call where origin: T::Origin {
		#[weight = 0]
		pub fn random_module_example(origin) -> dispatch::DispatchResult {
			let _random_value = <pallet_randomness_collective_flip::Module<T>>::random(&b"my context"[..]);
			Ok(())
		}
	}
}

License: Apache-2.0