FuelLabs/fuel-core

Fuel Client

Fuel client implementation.

Versions currently used in networks

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to Fuel, see our CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines for coding standards and review process.

Before pushing any changes or creating pull request please run source ci_checks.sh.

Building

If you plan to use already pre-compiled binaries you can directly go to Running a Ignition node.

System Requirements

There are several system requirements including clang.

MacOS

brew update
brew install cmake

Debian

apt update
apt install -y cmake pkg-config build-essential git clang libclang-dev

Arch

pacman -Syu --needed --noconfirm cmake gcc pkgconf git clang

Rust setup

You'll need wasm32-unknown-unknown target installed.

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Running a Ignition node

If you want to participate in the Ignition network with your own node you can launch it following these simple commands.

From pre-compiled binaries

Follow : https://docs.fuel.network/docs/node-operator/fuel-ignition/mainnet-node/

From source

Clone the fuel-core repository :

git clone https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core.git

Go to the latest release tag for ignition on the fuel-core repository :

git checkout v0.45.1

Build your node binary:

make build

To run the node follow : https://docs.fuel.network/docs/node-operator/fuel-ignition/mainnet-node/

Running a Local network from source

Clone the fuel-core repository :

git clone https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core.git

Build your node binary:

make build

To run the node follow : https://docs.fuel.network/docs/node-operator/fuel-ignition/local-node/

Setup to make contributions

Compiling

We recommend using xtask to build fuel-core for development:

cargo xtask build

This will run cargo build as well as any other custom build processes we have such as re-generating a GraphQL schema for the client.

Testing

The ci_checks.sh script file can be used to run all CI checks, including the running of tests.

source ci_checks.sh

The script requires pre-installed tools. For more information run:

cat ci_checks.sh

Running

The service can be launched by executing fuel-core run. The list of options for running can be accessed via the help option:

$ ./target/debug/fuel-core run --help

USAGE:
    fuel-core run [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
        --snapshot <SNAPSHOT>
          Snapshot from which to do (re)genesis. Defaults to local testnet configuration

          [env: SNAPSHOT=]
        ...

For many development purposes it is useful to have a state that won't persist and the db-type option can be set to in-memory as in the following example.

Example

$ ./target/debug/fuel-core run --db-type in-memory
2023-06-13T12:45:22.860536Z  INFO fuel_core::cli::run: 230: Block production mode: Instant
2023-06-13T12:38:47.059783Z  INFO fuel_core::cli::run: 310: Fuel Core version v0.18.1
2023-06-13T12:38:47.078969Z  INFO new{name=fuel-core}:_commit_result{block_id=b1807ca9f2eec7e459b866ecf69b68679fc6b205a9a85c16bd4943d1bfc6fb2a height=0 tx_status=[]}: fuel_core_importer::importer: 231: Committed block
2023-06-13T12:38:47.097777Z  INFO new{name=fuel-core}: fuel_core::graphql_api::service: 208: Binding GraphQL provider to 127.0.0.1:4000

To disable block production on your local node, set --poa-instant=false

Example

$ ./target/debug/fuel-core run --poa-instant=false
2023-06-13T12:44:12.857763Z  INFO fuel_core::cli::run: 232: Block production disabled

Troubleshooting

Publishing

We use publish-crates action for automatic publishing of all crates.

If you have problems with publishing, you can troubleshoot it locally with act.

act release -s GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN> -j publish-crates-check --container-architecture linux/amd64 --reuse

It requires GitHubToken to do request to the GitHub. You can create it with this instruction.

Outdated database

If you encounter an error such as

thread 'main' panicked at 'unable to open database: DatabaseError(Error { message: "Invalid argument: Column families not opened: column-11, column-10, column-9, column-8, column-7, column-6, column-5, column-4, column-3, column-2, column-1, column-0" })', fuel-core/src/main.rs:23:66

Clear your local database using: rm -rf ~/.fuel/db

File descriptor limits

On some macOS versions the default file descriptor limit is quite low, which can lead to IO errors with messages like Too many open files or even fatal runtime error: Rust cannot catch foreign exceptions when RocksDB encounters these issues. Use the following command to increase the open file limit. Note that this only affects the current shell session, so consider adding it to ~/.zshrc.

ulimit -n 10240

Log level

The service relies on the environment variable RUST_LOG. For more information, check the EnvFilter examples crate.

Human logging can be disabled with the environment variable HUMAN_LOGGING=false

Debugging

See the guide on debugging for an overview on running a debug build of a local node.

Docker & Kubernetes

# Create Docker Image
docker build -t fuel-core . -f deployment/Dockerfile

# Delete Docker Image
docker image rm fuel-core

# Create Kubernetes Volume, Deployment & Service
kubectl create -f deployment/fuel-core.yml

# Delete Kubernetes Volume, Deployment & Service
kubectl delete -f deployment/fuel-core.yml

GraphQL service

The client functionality is available through a service endpoint that expect GraphQL queries.

Transaction executor

The transaction executor currently performs instant block production. Changes are persisted to RocksDB by default.

• Service endpoint: /v1/graphql
• Schema (available after building): crates/client/assets/schema.sdl

The service expects a mutation defined as submit that receives a Transaction in hex encoded binary format, as specified here.