Upgrading Smart Contracts

This tutorial covers how to upgrade a smart contract. This procedure will focus on updating a smart contract for Grid on Splinter run using the Docker compose file located in grid/examples/splinter.

Prerequisites

Grid running on Splinter using the example Docker compose file
Access to the scabbard command line tool
An updated smart contract. Instructions for incrementing the protocol version for a contract can be found in the Upgrading Smart Contracts for Developers section.

Procedure

Rebuild the Smart Contract

This procedure will likely be done by an administrator for the Splinter circuit or network. These steps include rebuilding or compiling the upgraded contract and then deploying it.

Rebuild the contract builder container (in this case, for the Pike smart contract) and the Grid daemon containers.

$ docker-compose -f examples/splinter/docker-compose.yaml build \
     --no-cache pike-contract-builder gridd-alpha gridd-beta gridd-gamma

Restart those containers:

$ docker-compose -f examples/splinter/docker-compose.yaml up \
     --detach pike-contract-builder gridd-alpha gridd-beta gridd-gamma

Important Note

If not running using the example Docker compose files you will need to package the smart contract. A procedure for this can be found in the Uploading smart contracts section. This will then need to be uploaded via Scabbard.

Add the contract to your circuit

Start a bash session in your node’s scabbard-cli Docker container (such as scabbard-cli-alpha). You will use this container to run the scabbard commands to upload and configure the smart contract.
```
$ docker exec -it scabbard-cli-alpha bash
root@scabbard-cli-alpha:/#
```
To simplify entering the scabbard commands in this procedure, set SERVICE_ID to the fully qualified service ID for the scabbard service on this circuit (such as 01234-ABCDE::gsAA).
```
root@scabbard-cli-alpha:/# export SERVICE_ID=01234-ABCDE::gsAA
```

Upload the updated contract:

$ scabbard contract upload grid-pike:0.2.2 \
     --path ./usr/share/scar \
     -k gridd \
     -U 'http://splinterd-alpha:8085' \
     --service-id $SERVICE_ID

You can verify that the contract was added successfully using the command:

$ scabbard contract list \
     -U 'http://splinterd-alpha:8085' \
     --service-id $SERVICE_ID

If the address prefix for the contract changes in your update, create a new namespace:

$ scabbard ns create <prefix> \
     --owner <alpha_node_public_key> \
     --key <path_to_alpha_node_private_key> \
     --url http://splinterd-alpha:8080 \
     --service-id $CIRCUIT_ID::scabbard-service-alpha

Update the permissions for the namespace:

 $ scabbard perm <prefix> my_contract --read --write \
     --key <path_to_alpha_node_private_key> \
     --url http://splinterd-alpha:8080 \
     --service-id $CIRCUIT_ID::scabbard-service-alpha