Tracking Issue for Configuration Overhaul

[ilchu]

What is it

This issue serves as the central point for monitoring the ongoing overhaul of the configuration system.

RFC

Rendered

RFC document related work:

• Configuration Overhaul RFC iroha-rfcs#3
• Add-on to the Configuration Overhaul RFC iroha-rfcs#8

Tasks

Issues opened before the merging of the RFC:

• Deal with #[serde(skip)] on iroha_config::base::derive::Error #2615
• Add warnings for unreasonable settings in configs #2801
• Move keys out of configuration #2824
• [suggestion]: Add way to deprecate configuration parameters #3367
• [suggestion] Enhance configuration parsing with precise field locations #3470
• [suggestion] Support TOML configuration #3499
• [suggestion] Separate "user" config from "resolved" config #3500
• [suggestion] Make most of the configuration parameters optional #3501
• [suggestion] Trace configuration parameters resolution #3502
• [suggestion] Configuration reference has dangling footnotes #3503
• [suggestion] Remove the requirement to set sumeragi.key_pair and sumeragi.peer_id to null in the configuration #3504
• [suggestion] Get rid of "rustisms" in the configuration reference #3505
• [suggestion] Enhance configuration reference format #3507
• [suggestion] Uniform configuration endpoint #3107
• [suggestion] Re-tool configuration and genesis.json reading #3327

New subtasks/discussions/PRs:

• [discussion] Align configuration-related instructions with the RFC #4028
• [suggestion] Simplify genesis config #4029
• [suggestion] Move logger.terminal_colors setting to the CLI layer #4030
• [discussion] Update how Snapshots are configured #4059
• [discussion] Revise configuration endpoints according to the RFC #4063
  • [fix] #4063: update configuration endpoints #4076
  • [fix] #4030, #4063, #4064, #4079: re-architect logger and dynamic configuration #4100
• [suggestion] Simplify logger's behaviour and configuration #4064
• [BUG] Dynamic configuration updates aren't reflected in GET /configuration #4079
• [documentation]: remove auto-generated configuration reference #4127
• [suggestion] Refactor Iroha CLI #4136
  • [refactor] #4029, #4105, #4136: refactor CLIs #4153
• Minimal major configuration overhaul #4161
  • [refactor] #4161: rewrite config, _minimally_ #4239
• [discussion] Remove auto generated default-values config #4194
• [suggestion] (de-)serialize PrivateKey with algorithm field #4287
• [suggestion] Cover template configurations with tests #4288
• [suggestion] Update executor config in the genesis block #4291
• Actualise Dockerfiles with the new config system #4292
• [discussion] Rename configs/swarm? #4293
• Implement human-readable durations in the config #4294
• Implement human-readable bytes in the config #4295
• [suggestion] Snapshot configuration - ensure it creates a directory for itself #4296
• [suggestion] Split generic configuration functionality from iroha_config_base into a standalone library #4297
• Enhance configuration errors #4299
• Implement config tracing #4300
• panic_on_invalid_genesis.sh is outdated #4301
• where to put genesis.json and executor.wasm? #4320
• [discussion] Remove tokio-console feature from iroha_config #4323
• Automatic notification about config.json changes through CI #4278
• Refactor config usage in integration tests #4383

Tracking of the configuration reference update:

• Tracking Issue for Configuration Reference as per RFC iroha-2-docs#392

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I consider this epic to be mostly done. Some issues and questions are still open; some are going to be closed by some PRs soon; but in its core the overhaul is complete.