Unimplement TreeHash
for BeaconState
#6083
Merged
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Issue Addressed
Since we moved to
tree-states
thetree_hash_root
method onBeaconState
became potentially dangerous. It would panic if any pending updates were waiting to be applied to the tree. We've done a good job of vetting that this doesn't happen on production code paths, but it's easy to do accidentally in tests, and I'm worried about regressions.More background here:
Proposed Changes
TreeHash
forBeaconState
as a safeguard against accidental misuse.canonical_root
method to call the safe mutable methodupdate_tree_hash_cache
.unwrap
liberally in tests as hashing a valid state should never fail.