This calculates a validator's address from validators found in a blueprint. It also provides a convenient way to attach a delegation part to the validator if needs be. The command is meant to provide a nice user experience and works 'out of the box' for projects that have only a single validator. Just call 'aiken address' to get the validator's address.
Note that the command-line doesn't provide any option to configure the target network. This automatically assumes testnet, and will until we deem the project ready for mainnet. Those brave enough to run an Aiken's program on mainnet will find a way anyway.
Here's a trick though: I got lazy (a bit) and did not write a full deserializer for Schema because this is busywork and not at all necessary at this stage. Instead, I've made the blueprint parameterized by a generic type <T>; which represents the type of the underlying blueprint's schema. When deserializing from JSON, we can default to 'Value' to get a free deserializer. Since all we're interested about is the program and the metadata (purpose and title) of a validator, it works nicely.
Serialization however expects a Blueprint<Schema>, and most of the functions operates over a Blueprint<Schema> anyway.
In an ideal world, I should have handlded that directly at the conflicting commit in the rebase, but this would have bubbled up through all commits... which I wasn't really quite keen on going through. So here's an extra ugly commit that comes and 'fix the rebase'.
This is quite something, because now we have a testing pipeline that
can also be used for testing other compiler-related stuff such as the
type-checker or the code generator.
The blueprint is generated at the root of the repository and is
intended to be versioned with the rest. It acts as a business card
that contains many practical information. There's a variety of tools
we can then build on top of open-source contracts. And, quite
importantly, the blueprint is language-agnostic; it isn't specific to
Aiken. So it is really meant as an interop format within the
ecosystem.
This makes it easier to add new dependencies, without having to
manually edit the `aiken.toml` file.
The command is accessible via two different paths:
- aiken deps add
or simply
- aiken add
for this is quite common to find at the top-level of the command-line,
and, we still want to keep commands for managing dependencies grouped
under a command sub-group and not all at the top-level. So we're
merely promoting that one for visibility.
This is a bit cleaner, as the 'cmd/new' had many on-the-fly functions
which are better scoped inside this module.
Plus, it plays nicely with the std::str::FromStr trait definition.
rvcas