run rpc-compat on the latest clients

[cdetrio]

rpc-compat is a Hive script for testing client compatibility against an RPC test suite. It lives here but hasn't been tried in quite some time: https://github.com/karalabe/hive/tree/master/simulators/ethereum/rpc-compat

It would be nice to dust it off and run it again against the latest clients. Once run again, this RPC compatibility table can be updated (this table is very old, as you can see on the page these results are from 2017-02-24: http:https://cdetrio.github.io/eth-compat-table).

The documentation on how to run Hive and generate this table is not great, but there are some notes scattered in various places:

• Improve rpc compatibility pyethapp#190
• https://github.com/cdetrio/interfaces/tree/master/rpc-specs-tests
• Universal specs for JSON-RPC API methods EIPs#217
• [WIP] Installation doc improvement suggestions / beginner perspective experience description #100

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@cryptomental You've been approved! Excited to see what you do here, as always 🙂

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[cryptomental]

Day 1 - after initial reading I checked out Hive and I am looking around the codebase. Also #118 looks quite interesting as it gives a hint that the test environment is spin up with Vagrant and Ubuntu base image, therefore Ubuntu will be a base for me. I hope to open a WIP PR this week. I will update my progress on a daily basis.

[cryptomental]

Yesterday, workspace checkout, docker image built and I was comparing branches mentioned in #190, today evening I have more time and will try to run the latest rpc compat tests.

[cryptomental]

@cdetrio , @vs77bb Job done.

In the meantime since the last official run in 2017, cpp-ethereum was renamed to aleth, pyethapp was deprecated and ethereumj was added.

I generated a new table and updated all results, including client logs and changes needed in App.js in my eth-compat-table fork: https://github.com/cryptomental/eth-compat-table

I pushed everything in a single commit to: cryptomental/eth-compat-table@3f2e81b

Perhaps at some point it would be beneficial to try to automate everything so that the table would be automatically created on CI and pushed but this is a different story.

Just for the record I stored how I started the hive container and cached ethash DAG (go-ethereum circleci config helped me a lot).

$ docker build . -t hive
$ mkdir -p ~/.hive/images
$ mkdir -p ~/.hive/ethash

$ docker run -it --privileged -e UID=$UID -v ~/.hive/images:/root/.hive/images -v ~/.hive/ethash:/gopath/src/github.com/karalabe/hive/workspace/ethash --entrypoint=sh hive

Caching ethhash DAG and images is not needed, but speeds up next container starts.

To generate eth-compat data, in the last command above I changed the entrypoint from hive.sh to sh, to start the interactive session and executed hive in --docker-noshell mode inside the container:

/gopath/src/github.com/karalabe/hive # dockerd-entrypoint.sh --storage-driver=aufs 2>/dev/null &
/gopath/src/github.com/karalabe/hive # hive --docker-noshell --sim=rpc-compat --test=NONE --client="go-ethereum:master|parity:master|ethereumj:master|aleth:nightly" --loglevel=6 | tee ./simulator_rpc_results.json

After the test completed I copied data from the container to eth-compat-table and renamed where necessary.

I learnt a lot again.

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@vs77bb I submitted the bounty via GitCoin, the transaction went through https://etherscan.io/tx/0x38e260950f8da1159068f5c03bde507807eafdda08ac7c51ed528c5e3d4a0459 but strangely it was not recorded. I'll ping you via Slack with links.

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nice work!

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[cdetrio]

@cryptomental i've sent you a gitter message!

[cryptomental]

All ok! :)

[fjl]

rpc-compat is now maintained again, closing this issue.