Truffle pet-shop installation and setup guide

Compiled by Sumanta Bose

Email: sumanta001@e.ntu.edu.sg

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Sources

1. http://truffleframework.com/boxes/pet-shop
2. http://truffleframework.com/tutorials/pet-shop
3. http://truffleframework.com/tutorials/

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Steps to install and setup by cloning this repository

1. Install Truffle if you don't already have it.

$ npm install -g truffle

2. Clone this repository and access it's root directory

$ git clone https://github.com/sumantabose/pet-shop-ethereum-truffle.git
$ cd pet-shop-ethereum-truffle

3. In the pet-shop-ethereum-truffle/ root directory truffle compile the smart contracts (see step 5 and 6 below).

$ truffle compile

4. Download, install and run Ganache (step 7 below).
5. In the pet-shop-ethereum-truffle/ root directory run the truffle development console.

$ truffle develop

6. Inside the development console, migrate the smart contracts to the blockchain (step 7 below) and exit using Ctrl + D.

> migrate
> Ctrl + D

7. Run the test on the smart contracts (see step 9 below).

$ truffle test

8. Interact with the dapp in a browser through MetaMask. The RPC URL is http://127.0.0.1:7545 (see step 11 below).
9. Start the local web server for UI (see step 12 below).

npm run dev

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Steps to install and setup from scratch

1. Install Truffle if you don't already have it.

$ npm install -g truffle

2. Install pet-shop box in a directory pet-shop. To understand the directory structure read this guide.

$ mkdir pet-shop
$ cd pet-shop
$ truffle unbox pet-shop

3. Go to /contracts directory and create a new file Adoption.sol and save the following content.

pragma solidity ^0.4.17;

contract Adoption {

	address[16] public adopters;

	// Adopting a pet
	function adopt(uint petId) public returns (uint) {
	  require(petId >= 0 && petId <= 15);

	  adopters[petId] = msg.sender;

	  return petId;
	}

	// Retrieving the adopters
	function getAdopters() public view returns (address[16]) {
	  return adopters;
	}
}

4. In the Migrations.sol file in the /contracts directory, modify the Old code with the New code.

Old code

  function Migrations() public {
    owner = msg.sender;
  }

New code

  constructor() public {
    owner = msg.sender;
  }

5. Go back to the pet-shop/ root directory run the truffle development console.

$ truffle develop

6. Compile the smart contracts. Note, inside the development console we don't need to prefix commands with truffle. If you're outside prefix commands with truffle.

> compile

You should see output similar to the following:

Compiling ./contracts/Migrations.sol...
Compiling ./contracts/Adoption.sol...
Writing artifacts to ./build/contracts

7. Now that we've successfully compiled our contracts, it's time to migrate them to the blockchain! To know about migration read the migration documentation and this guide. You will see one JavaScript file already in the migrations/ directory: 1_initial_migration.js. This handles deploying the Migrations.sol contract. Now we are ready to create our own migration script.

• Create a new file named 2_deploy_contracts.js in the migrations/ directory.
• Add the following content to the 2_deploy_contracts.js file:

var Adoption = artifacts.require("Adoption");

module.exports = function(deployer) {
  deployer.deploy(Adoption);
};

• Before we can migrate our contract to the blockchain, we need to have a blockchain running. For this tutorial, we're going to use Ganache, a personal blockchain for Ethereum development you can use to deploy contracts, develop applications, and run tests. If you haven't already, download Ganache and double click the icon to launch the application. This will generate a blockchain running locally on port 7545. Read the ganache documentation here.
• Back in the terminal, migrate the contract to the blockchain. Note, for this step you must be in the pet-shop/ root in the terminal, and not the truffle develop environment

$ truffle migrate

• You should see output similar to the following. You can see the migrations being executed in order, followed by the blockchain address of each deployed contract. (Your addresses will differ.)

Using network 'development'.

Running migration: 1_initial_migration.js
  Deploying Migrations...
  ... 0xcc1a5aea7c0a8257ba3ae366b83af2d257d73a5772e84393b0576065bf24aedf
  Migrations: 0x8cdaf0cd259887258bc13a92c0a6da92698644c0
Saving successful migration to network...
  ... 0xd7bc86d31bee32fa3988f1c1eabce403a1b5d570340a3a9cdba53a472ee8c956
Saving artifacts...
Running migration: 2_deploy_contracts.js
  Deploying Adoption...
  ... 0x43b6a6888c90c38568d4f9ea494b9e2a22f55e506a8197938fb1bb6e5eaa5d34
  Adoption: 0x345ca3e014aaf5dca488057592ee47305d9b3e10
Saving successful migration to network...
  ... 0xf36163615f41ef7ed8f4a8f192149a0bf633fe1a2398ce001bf44c43dc7bdda0
Saving artifacts...

• In Ganache, note that the state of the blockchain has changed. The blockchain now shows that the current block, previously 0, is now 4. In addition, while the first account originally had 100 ether, it is now lower, due to the transaction costs of migration. We'll talk more about transaction costs later.

8. Now we will test the smart contract. Truffle is very flexible when it comes to smart contract testing, in that tests can be written either in JavaScript or Solidity. In this tutorial, we'll be writing our tests in Solidity.

• Create a new file named TestAdoption.sol in the test/ directory.
• Add the following content to the TestAdoption.sol file:

pragma solidity ^0.4.17;

import "truffle/Assert.sol";
import "truffle/DeployedAddresses.sol";
import "../contracts/Adoption.sol";

contract TestAdoption {
  Adoption adoption = Adoption(DeployedAddresses.Adoption());
  // Testing the adopt() function
  
  /// #1
  function testUserCanAdoptPet() public {
	uint returnedId = adoption.adopt(8);
	uint expected = 8;
	Assert.equal(returnedId, expected, "Adoption of pet ID 8 should be recorded.");
	}
	
	/// #2
	// Testing retrieval of a single pet's owner
	function testGetAdopterAddressByPetId() public {
	// Expected owner is this contract
	address expected = this;
    address adopter = adoption.adopters(8);
    Assert.equal(adopter, expected, "Owner of pet ID 8 should be recorded.");
	}	
	
	/// #3
	// Testing retrieval of all pet owners
	function testGetAdopterAddressByPetIdInArray() public {
	// Expected owner is this contract
	address expected = this;

	// Store adopters in memory rather than storage of contract
	address[16] memory adopters = adoption.getAdopters();

	Assert.equal(adopters[8], expected, "Owner of pet ID 8 should be recorded.");
	}
}

• We start the contract off with 3 imports. The first two imports are referring to global Truffle files, not a truffle directory. You should not see a truffle directory inside your test/ directory.
  • Assert.sol: Gives us various assertions to use in our tests.
  • DeployedAddresses.sol: This smart contract gets the address of the deployed contract.
  • Adoption.sol: The smart contract we want to test.
• Now we can test the adopt() function. Recall that upon success it returns the given petId. We can ensure an ID was returned and that it's correct by comparing the return value of adopt() to the ID we passed in.
• Things to notice:
  • We call the smart contract we declared earlier with the ID of 8.
  • We then declare an expected value of 8 as well.
  • Finally, we pass the actual value, the expected value and a failure message (which gets printed to the console if the test does not pass) to Assert.equal().
• Note the memory attribute on adopters. The memory attribute tells Solidity to temporarily store the value in memory, rather than saving it to the contract's storage. Since adopters is an array, and we know from the first adoption test that we adopted pet 8, we compare the testing contracts address with location 8 in the array.

9. Now we will run the tests.

• Back in the terminal, run the tests:

$ truffle test

• If all the tests pass, you'll see console output similar to this:

Using network 'development'.

Compiling ./contracts/Adoption.sol...
Compiling ./test/TestAdoption.sol...
Compiling truffle/Assert.sol...
Compiling truffle/DeployedAddresses.sol...


  TestAdoption
    ✓ testUserCanAdoptPet (107ms)
    ✓ testGetAdopterAddressByPetId (88ms)
    ✓ testGetAdopterAddressByPetIdInArray (136ms)


  3 passing (2s)

10. Now we will create a user-interface to interact with the smart contract. Included with the pet-shop Truffle Box was code for the app's front-end. That code exists within the src/ directory. Now we will instantiate web3. Open /src/js/app.js and update it with following code. We are basically updating four functions: initWeb3, initContract, markAdopted, handleAdopt. To know about about these updates read this guide.

App = {
  web3Provider: null,
  contracts: {},

  init: function() {
    // Load pets.
    $.getJSON('../pets.json', function(data) {
      var petsRow = $('#petsRow');
      var petTemplate = $('#petTemplate');

      for (i = 0; i < data.length; i ++) {
        petTemplate.find('.panel-title').text(data[i].name);
        petTemplate.find('img').attr('src', data[i].picture);
        petTemplate.find('.pet-breed').text(data[i].breed);
        petTemplate.find('.pet-age').text(data[i].age);
        petTemplate.find('.pet-location').text(data[i].location);
        petTemplate.find('.btn-adopt').attr('data-id', data[i].id);

        petsRow.append(petTemplate.html());
      }
    });

    return App.initWeb3();
  },

  initWeb3: function() {
    // Is there an injected web3 instance?
    if (typeof web3 !== 'undefined') {
      App.web3Provider = web3.currentProvider;
    } else {
      // If no injected web3 instance is detected, fall back to Ganache
      App.web3Provider = new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:7545');
    }
    web3 = new Web3(App.web3Provider);

    return App.initContract();
  },

  initContract: function() {
    $.getJSON('Adoption.json', function(data) {
    // Get the necessary contract artifact file and instantiate it with truffle-contract
    var AdoptionArtifact = data;
    App.contracts.Adoption = TruffleContract(AdoptionArtifact);

    // Set the provider for our contract
    App.contracts.Adoption.setProvider(App.web3Provider);

    // Use our contract to retrieve and mark the adopted pets
    return App.markAdopted();
  });

    return App.bindEvents();
  },

  bindEvents: function() {
    $(document).on('click', '.btn-adopt', App.handleAdopt);
  },

  markAdopted: function(adopters, account) {
    var adoptionInstance;

    App.contracts.Adoption.deployed().then(function(instance) {
      adoptionInstance = instance;

      return adoptionInstance.getAdopters.call();
    }).then(function(adopters) {
      for (i = 0; i < adopters.length; i++) {
        if (adopters[i] !== '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000') {
          $('.panel-pet').eq(i).find('button').text('Success').attr('disabled', true);
        }
      }
    }).catch(function(err) {
      console.log(err.message);
    });
  },

  handleAdopt: function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();

    var petId = parseInt($(event.target).data('id'));

    var adoptionInstance;

    web3.eth.getAccounts(function(error, accounts) {
      if (error) {
        console.log(error);
      }

      var account = accounts[0];

      App.contracts.Adoption.deployed().then(function(instance) {
        adoptionInstance = instance;

        // Execute adopt as a transaction by sending account
        return adoptionInstance.adopt(petId, {from: account});
      }).then(function(result) {
        return App.markAdopted();
      }).catch(function(err) {
        console.log(err.message);
      });
    });
  }

};

$(function() {
  $(window).load(function() {
    App.init();
  });
});

11. Now we will interact with the dapp in a browser. The easiest way to interact with our dapp in a browser is through MetaMask, a browser extension for both Chrome and Firefox.

• If you are a new user of MetaMask, follow the steps given in this this guide
• If you are existing user of MetaMask the follow the following steps.
  • Logout of MetaMask
  • Click on Restore from seed phrase
  • Copy MNEMONIC seed from Ganache App and paste in MetaMask and choose a password of your choice and click OK.
  • From the dropdown, we need to connect MetaMask to the blockchain created by Ganache. Click the menu that shows "Main Network" and select Custom RPC.
  • In the box titled New RPC URL enter http://127.0.0.1:7545 and click Save.
  • Go back and confirm balance.

12. Open bs-config.json from the project's root directory and update it to following.

{
  "server": {
    "baseDir": ["./src", "./build/contracts"]
  },
  "scripts": {
  "dev": "lite-server",
  "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  }
}

13. Start the local web server:

npm run dev

• To use the dapp, click the Adopt button on the pet of your choice.
• You'll be automatically prompted to approve the transaction by MetaMask. Click Submit to approve the transaction.
• You'll see the button next to the adopted pet change to say "Success" and become disabled, just as we specified, because the pet has now been adopted.
• You'll also see the same transaction listed in Ganache under the "Transactions" section.

Congratulations!

You have taken a huge step to becoming a full-fledged dapp developer. For developing locally, you have all the tools you need to start making more advanced dapps.