substrate-runtime-hasher

When a candidate runtime is submitted to a Substrate-based chain such as Polkadot or Substrate, this WASM blob is hashed. The proposal hash that can be seen is actually the prefixed and hashed runtime. This utility does the same and allows calculating the proposal hash of a new runtime off-chain.

You do not need a node, nor even an internet connection to use this utility.

The rustdoc can be found here.

This is the documentation for substrate-runtime-hasher v0.2.9.

Install

    cargo install --git https://gitlab.com/chevdor/substrate-runtime-hasher.git --tag v0.2.9

Installing the version from `master` is not recommended for production: do *NOT* omit the `--tag v0.2.9` in the previous command.

Usage

Sample run

In the following examples, the path of the WASM file will be stored into a variables called WASM.

You may set it with:

export WASM=/home/foobar/kusama/target/srtool/release/wbuild/kusama-runtime/kusama_runtime.compact.wasm

Build your runtime…​ or let srtool do it.

    cd <polkadot-repo>
    # build the runtime (you could use srtool)

Invoke substrate-runtime-hasher.

    substrate-runtime-hasher $WASM
    0x5931690e71e9d3d9f04a43d8c15e45e0968e563858dd87ad6485b2368a286a8f

If you are using srtool, it will do everything for you. The default location for the WASM will be inside your repo in $WASM (for instance, for kusama).

Unix pipes & input redirection

Since v0.2.1, you can also use Unix pipes:

Piping into substrate-runtime-hasher.

    cat $WASM | substrate-runtime-hasher
    0x5931690e71e9d3d9f04a43d8c15e45e0968e563858dd87ad6485b2368a286a8f

Input redirection.

    substrate-runtime-hasher < $WASM
    0x5931690e71e9d3d9f04a43d8c15e45e0968e563858dd87ad6485b2368a286a8f

If you are using commands such as echo make sure to NOT send an extra newline. For instance echo "123" | substrate-runtime-hasher will not hash 123 but 123<cr>. In that case, you probably want to use echo -n "123" | substrate-runtime-hasher

Help!

    substrate-runtime-hasher --help

You should see an output similar to:

    substrate-runtime-hasher 0.2.1
    Wilfried Kopp <chevdor@gmail.com>
    Hash data the same way Substrate-based chains such as Kusama or Polkadot.
    This gives a hash matching proposal hashes onchain.

    USAGE:
        substrate-runtime-hasher [FLAGS] [INPUT]

    FLAGS:
        -h, --help       Prints help information
        -v               Sets the level of verbosity
        -V, --version    Prints version information

    ARGS:
        <INPUT>    Sets the input file to use. Alternatively, you may pipe <stdin>.

References

• srtool articles: https://www.chevdor.com/tags/srtool

• srtool repo: https://gitlab.com/chevdor/srtool

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Wilfried Kopp - Chevdor

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