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im-online removal cleanup: remove off-chain storage #2290

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@s0me0ne-unkn0wn s0me0ne-unkn0wn commented Nov 13, 2023

This is a follow-up for im-online pallet removal that is cleaning up its off-chain storage. Must be merged no earlier than #2265 is enacted. Related: #1964

@s0me0ne-unkn0wn s0me0ne-unkn0wn changed the title [DNM] im-online removal cleanup: remove off-chain storage im-online removal cleanup: remove off-chain storage Jan 7, 2024
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Tested, it and it seems to work, but maybe I'm over-engineering it... Are there any better ideas on how to implement it without sticking a whole fake pallet into the runtime?

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Tests?

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s0me0ne-unkn0wn commented Jan 19, 2024

Tests?

I've done manual testing. I could automate that, but that seems to be overkill for a disposable fake pallet that will only fire once.

Besides, I'm not even sure that this is the right way to do what I want to do, and I'm still waiting for someone to come and say, "you're doing it totally wrong, see how it should be" 🙂

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What was your process for testing it, could you post a summary of the results?

Regarding the approach, I wonder if it's possible to use a runtime migration rather than a pallet? If not, probably deserves an issue.

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I've spun up a zombienet, then applied runtime upgrade with sudo as usual. In the logs, I see that the offchain worker fired on the next block, enumerated offchain storage keys in question, and removed them (or at least tried to remove them if they exist; .clear() does not provide any clue on the result of the operation). Still, I don't know if storage locking is required here. It works without locking in my tests, but I'm not 100% sure how it will behave in a live network.

However, this approach has some significant drawbacks. First, I'm sticking a whole fake pallet into the runtime just to remove several values from offchain storage. I'd expect an easier mechanism for that, but I didn't find one. That pallet has to be removed afterward. Second, until it is removed, it will fire an offchain worker every next block. It will do close to nothing (get the block number from on-chain storage; check we're not at that block; exit), but still, it's completely unneeded overhead.

Unfortunately, regular migration doesn't work here, as the offchain storage can only be accessed from an offchain worker, not from the runtime itself. That's the problem I'm trying to overcome with this fake pallet, and I'd be glad to hear that there's some cleaner solution for that.

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I'm not a FRAME expert, but if it's tested to work, sounds good to me :)

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@bkchr Rococo and Westend have been running without im-online for quite some time now. Let's wrap it up with this PR?

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* master: (41 commits)
  Add Coretime to Westend (#3319)
  removed `pallet::getter` from `pallet-sudo` (#3370)
  gossip-support: add unittests for update authorities (#3258)
  [FRAME Core] remove unnecessary overrides while using derive_impl for frame_system (#3317)
  Update coretime-westend bootnodes (#3380)
  `im-online` removal cleanup: remove off-chain storage (#2290)
  Bump the known_good_semver group with 1 update (#3379)
  Fix documentation dead link (#3372)
  Make `sp-keystore` `no_std`-compatible and fix the `build-runtimes-polkavm` CI job (#3363)
  Remove unused `im-online` weights (#3373)
  Ensure referenda `TracksInfo` is sorted (#3325)
  rpc server: add rate limiting middleware (#3301)
  do not block finality for "disabled" disputes (#3358)
  fix(zombienet): docker `img` version to use in merge queues for bridges (#3337)
  Various nits and alignments for SP testnets found during bumping `polkadot-fellows` repo (#3359)
  Add broker pallet to `coretime-westend` (#3272)
  remove recursion limit (#3348)
  Update subkey README.md (#3355)
  Bump the known_good_semver group with 6 updates (#3347)
  Document LocalKeystore insert method (#3336)
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bgallois pushed a commit to duniter/duniter-polkadot-sdk that referenced this pull request Mar 25, 2024
This is a follow-up for `im-online` pallet removal that is cleaning up
its off-chain storage. Must be merged no earlier than paritytech#2265 is enacted.
Related: paritytech#1964

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Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <[email protected]>
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 29, 2024
Removes transient code introduced to clean up offchain database after
`im-online` pallet removal.

Should be merged after #2290 has been enacted.
pgherveou pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 2, 2024
Removes transient code introduced to clean up offchain database after
`im-online` pallet removal.

Should be merged after #2290 has been enacted.
dharjeezy pushed a commit to dharjeezy/polkadot-sdk that referenced this pull request Apr 9, 2024
Removes transient code introduced to clean up offchain database after
`im-online` pallet removal.

Should be merged after paritytech#2290 has been enacted.
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