Chain upgrade
Performs a chain upgrade using the upgradeKey module. This may brick your chain, so us it as an educational sample. (use substrate --dev purge-chain to remove DB and recover).
// Import the API & Provider and some utility functions
const { ApiPromise } = require('@polkadot/api');
const { WsProvider } = require('@polkadot/rpc-provider');
// import the test keyring (already has dev keys for Alice, Bob, Charlie, Eve & Ferdie)
const testKeyring = require('@polkadot/keyring/testing');
// utility functions
const { compactAddLength, hexToU8a } = require('@polkadot/util');
async function main () {
// Initialise the provider to connect to the local node
const provider = new WsProvider('ws://127.0.0.1:9944');
// Create the API and wait until ready (optional provider passed through)
const api = await ApiPromise.create(provider);
// retrieve the upgrade key from the chain state
const adminId = await api.query.upgradeKey.key();
// get the nonce for the admin key
const adminNonce = await api.query.system.accountNonce(adminId);
// find the actual keypair in the keyring (if this is an changed value, the key
// needs to be added to the keyring before - this assumes we have defaults, i.e.
// Alice as the key - and this exists on the test keyring)
const keyring = testKeyring.default();
const adminPair = keyring.getPair(adminId.toString());
console.log('Upgrading from', adminId.toString(), 'with nonce', adminNonce.toString());
// create a properly encoded code array from the hex with length prefix - since we have a
// hex string, we can actuall;y pass it through directly (i.e. `.upgrade('0x...'))` below),
// however here we show how to pass an actual Uint8Array with encoded length
const code = compactAddLength(hexToU8a('0xdeadbeef'));
// preform a chain upgrade, effectively bricking the chain, passing through
// a hex value, although a valid Uint8Array will also work here (in this case
// ensure it has a length prefix added, e.g. compact)
api.tx.upgradeKey
.upgrade(code)
.sign(adminPair, adminNonce)
.send(({ events = [], status, type }) => {
console.log('Transaction status:', type);
if (type === 'Finalised') {
console.error('You have just upgraded your chain');
console.log('Completed at block hash', status.value.toHex());
console.log('Events:');
events.forEach(({ phase, event: { data, method, section } }) => {
console.log('\t', phase.toString(), `: ${section}.${method}`, data.toString());
});
process.exit(0);
}
});
}
main().catch(console.error);