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Welcome to the first in a series of building a Blockchain application. Part 1 will show you how to create a Hyperledger Composer Business Network Archive (BNA) file for Commodity trade and deploy it on a Hyperledger Fabric. This will be the "Hello World" of Hyperledger Composer samples.
Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. Intended as a foundation for developing applications or solutions with a modular architecture, Hyperledger Fabric allows components, such as consensus and membership services, to be plug-and-playIn
Part 2, we will explore more about creating a complex network with multiple participants and using Access Control Rules (ACL) to provide them network access permissions. In this journey, you will run Hyperledger Fabric locally.
You can use Hyperledger Composer to quickly model your current business network, containing your existing assets and the transactions related to them. Assets are tangible or intangible goods, services, or property. As part of your business network model, you define the transactions which can interact with assets. Business networks also include the participants who interact with them, each of which can be associated with a unique identity, across multiple business networks. A business network definition consists of model(.cto), script(.js) and ACL(.acl) files packaged and exported as an archive(.bna file). The archive file is then deployed to a Hyperledger Fabric network.
- Hyperledger Fabric
- Hyperledger Composer
- Docker
- Install the Network Dependicies a) cryptogen b) configtxgen c) configtxlator d) peer
- Configure the network a) generating the network artifacts b) Starting up the network
- Docker - v1.13 or higher
- Docker Compose - v1.8 or higher
- Node.js & npm - node v6.2.0 - v6.10.0 (v7+ not supported); npm comes with your node installation.
- Git client - needed for clone commands
- git - 2.9.x
- Python - 2.7.x
- Installing Hyperledger Composer Development Tools
- Starting Hyperledger Fabric
- Generate the Business Network Archive (BNA)
- Deploy the Business Network Archive using Composer Playground
- Deploy the Business Network Archive on Hyperledger Composer running locally
Note: You may need to run these commands in superuser sudo
mode. sudo
allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified by the security policy.
- The
composer-cli
contains all the command line operations for developing business networks. To installcomposer-cli
run the following command:
npm install -g composer-cli
- The
generator-hyperledger-composer
is a Yeoman plugin that creates bespoke (e.g. customized) applications for your business network. Yeoman is an open source client-side development stack, consisting of tools and frameworks intended to help developers build web applications. To installgenerator-hyperledger-composer
run the following command:
npm install -g generator-hyperledger-composer
- The
composer-rest-server
uses the Hyperledger Composer LoopBack Connector to connect to a business network, extract the models and then present a page containing the REST APIs that have been generated for the model. To installcomposer-rest-server
run the following command:
npm install -g composer-rest-server
- When combining
Yeoman
with thegenerator-hyperledger-composer
component, it can interpret business networks and generate applications based on them. To installYeoman
run the following command:
npm install -g yo
First download the docker files for Fabric in preparation for creating a Composer profile. Hyperledger Composer uses Connection Profiles to connect to a runtime. A Connection Profile is a JSON document that lives in the user's home directory (or may come from an environment variable) and is referenced by name when using the Composer APIs or the Command Line tools. Using connection profiles ensures that code and scripts are easily portable from one runtime instance to another.
Start the Fabric and create a Composer profile using the following commands:
./downloadFabric.sh
./startFabric.sh
./createComposerProfile.sh
No need to do it now; however as an fyi - you can stop and tear down Fabric using:
./stopFabric.sh
./teardownFabric.sh
This business network defines:
Participant
Trader
Asset
Commodity
Transaction
Trade
Commodity
is owned by a Trader
, and the owner of a Commodity
can be modified by submitting a Trade
transaction.
The next step is to generate a Business Network Archive (BNA) file for your business network definition. The BNA file is the deployable unit -- a file that can be deployed to the Composer runtime for execution.
Use the following command to generate the network archive:
npm install
You should see the following output:
Creating Business Network Archive
Looking for package.json of Business Network Definition
Input directory: /Users/ishan/Documents/git-demo/BlockchainNetwork-CompositeJourney
Found:
Description: Sample Trade Network
Name: my-network
Identifier: [email protected]
Written Business Network Definition Archive file to
Output file: ./dist/my-network.bna
Command succeeded
The composer archive create
command has created a file called my-network.bna
in the dist
folder.
You can test the business network definition against the embedded runtime that stores the state of 'the blockchain' in-memory in a Node.js process. This embedded runtime is very useful for unit testing, as it allows you to focus on testing the business logic rather than configuring an entire Fabric.
From your project working directory(BlockchainNetwork-CompositeJourney
), run the command:
npm test
You should see the following output:
> [email protected] test /Users/laurabennett/2017-NewRole/Code/BlockchainNetwork-CompositeJourney
> mocha --recursive
Commodity Trading
#tradeCommodity
✓ should be able to trade a commodity (198ms)
1 passing (1s)
Open Composer Playground, by default the Basic Sample Network is imported.
If you have previously used Playground, be sure to clear your browser local storage by running localStorage.clear()
in your browser Console.
Now import the my-network.bna
file and click on deploy button.
You can also setup Composer Playground locally.
You will see the following:
To test your Business Network Definition, first click on the Test tab:
Click on the Create New Participant
button
Create Trader
participants:
{
"$class": "org.acme.mynetwork.Trader",
"tradeId": "traderA",
"firstName": "Tobias",
"lastName": "Funke"
}
{
"$class": "org.acme.mynetwork.Trader",
"tradeId": "traderB",
"firstName": "Simon",
"lastName": "Stone"
}
Highlight the Commodity tab on the far left hand side and
create a Commodity
asset with owner as traderA
:
{
"$class": "org.acme.mynetwork.Commodity",
"tradingSymbol": "commodityA",
"description": "Sample Commodity",
"mainExchange": "Dollar",
"quantity": 100,
"owner": "resource:org.acme.mynetwork.Trader#traderA"
}
Click on the Submit Transaction
button on the lower left-hand side and submit a Trade
transaction to change the owner of Commodity commodityA
:
{
"$class": "org.acme.mynetwork.Trade",
"commodity": "resource:org.acme.mynetwork.Commodity#commodityA",
"newOwner": "resource:org.acme.mynetwork.Trader#traderB"
}
You can verify the new owner by clicking on the Commodity
registry. Also you can view all the transactions by selecting the All Transactions
registry.
Example of transaction view:
5. Deploy the Business Network Archive on Hyperledger Composer running locally (alternative deployment approach)
Change directory to the dist
folder containing my-network.bna
file and type:
cd dist
composer network deploy -a my-network.bna -p hlfv1 -i PeerAdmin -s <randomString>
After sometime time business network should be deployed to the local Hyperledger Fabric. You should see the output as follows:
Deploying business network from archive: my-network.bna
Business network definition:
Identifier: [email protected]
Description: Sample Trade Network
✔ Deploying business network definition. This may take a minute...
Command succeeded
You can verify that the network has been deployed by typing:
composer network ping -n my-network -p hlfv1 -i admin -s adminpw
You should see the the output as follows:
The connection to the network was successfully tested: my-network
version: 0.10.0
participant: <no participant found>
Command succeeded
To integrate with the deployed business network (creating assets/participants and submitting transactions) we can either use the Composer Node SDK or we can generate a REST API.
To create the REST API we need to launch the composer-rest-server
and tell it how to connect to our deployed business network.
Now launch the server by changing directory to the project working directory and type:
cd ..
composer-rest-server
Answer the questions posed at startup. These allow the composer-rest-server to connect to Hyperledger Fabric and configure how the REST API is generated.
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? Enter your Fabric Connection Profile Name: hlfv1
? Enter your Business Network Identifier : my-network
? Enter your Fabric username : admin
? Enter your secret: adminpw
? Specify if you want namespaces in the generated REST API: never use namespaces
? Specify if you want the generated REST API to be secured: No
If the composer-rest-server started successfully you should see these two lines are output:
Web server listening at: http://localhost:3000
Browse your REST API at http://localhost:3000/explorer
Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000/explorer
You should see the LoopBack API Explorer, allowing you to inspect and test the generated REST API. Follow the instructions to test Business Network Definition as mentioned above in the composer section.
Congratulations - you have completed Step 1 of this Composite Journey - move onto Step 2.
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