Merge branch 'lash/descriptive-documentation' into 'master'

cic-eth system documentation

See merge request grassrootseconomics/cic-internal-integration!122

apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/runnable/daemons/tasker.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from cic_eth.eth import (
 from cic_eth.admin import (
         debug,
         ctrl,
-        token
+        token,
         )
 from cic_eth.queue import (
         query,
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ argparser.add_argument('-c', type=str, default=config_dir, help='config file')
 argparser.add_argument('-q', type=str, default='cic-eth', help='queue name for worker tasks')
 argparser.add_argument('-r', type=str, help='CIC registry address')
 argparser.add_argument('--default-token-symbol', dest='default_token_symbol', type=str, help='Symbol of default token to use')
-argparser.add_argument('--abi-dir', dest='abi_dir', type=str, help='Directory containing bytecode and abi')
 argparser.add_argument('--trace-queue-status', default=None, dest='trace_queue_status', action='store_true', help='set to perist all queue entry status changes to storage')
 argparser.add_argument('-i', '--chain-spec', dest='i', type=str, help='chain spec')
 argparser.add_argument('--env-prefix', default=os.environ.get('CONFINI_ENV_PREFIX'), dest='env_prefix', type=str, help='environment prefix for variables to overwrite configuration')
@@ -121,20 +120,25 @@ broker = config.get('CELERY_BROKER_URL')
 if broker[:4] == 'file':
     bq = tempfile.mkdtemp()
     bp = tempfile.mkdtemp()
-    current_app.conf.update({
+    conf_update = {
             'broker_url': broker,
             'broker_transport_options': {
                 'data_folder_in': bq,
                 'data_folder_out': bq,
                 'data_folder_processed': bp,
             },
-            },
+            }
-            )
+    if config.true('CELERY_DEBUG'):
+        conf_update['result_extended'] = True
+    current_app.conf.update(conf_update)
     logg.warning('celery broker dirs queue i/o {} processed {}, will NOT be deleted on shutdown'.format(bq, bp))
 else:
-    current_app.conf.update({
+    conf_update = {
-        'broker_url': broker,
+            'broker_url': broker,
-        })
+            }
+    if config.true('CELERY_DEBUG'):
+        conf_update['result_extended'] = True
+    current_app.conf.update(conf_update)
 
 result = config.get('CELERY_RESULT_URL')
 if result[:4] == 'file':

apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/runnable/info.py

@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ admin_api = AdminApi(None)
 
 def main():
     t = admin_api.registry()
-    registry = t.get()
+    registry_address = t.get()
-    print('Registry address: {}'.format(registry))
+    print('Registry: {}'.format(registry_address))
 
     t = api.default_token()
     token_info = t.get()
     print('Default token symbol: {}'.format(token_info['symbol']))
     print('Default token address: {}'.format(token_info['address']))
 
-
+    
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()

apps/cic-eth/config/celery.ini

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [celery]
 broker_url = redis://
 result_url = redis://
+debug = 0

apps/cic-eth/config/docker/celery.ini

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [celery]
 broker_url = redis://localhost:63379
 result_url = redis://localhost:63379
+debug = 0

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/accounts.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+@node cic-eth-accounts
+@section Accounts
+
+Accounts are private keys in the signer component keyed by "addresses," a one-way transformation of a public key. Data can be signed by using the account as identifier for corresponding RPC requests.
+
+Any account to be managed by @code{cic-eth} must be created by the corresponding task. This is because @code{cic-eth} creates a @code{nonce} entry for each newly created account, and guarantees that every nonce will only be used once in its threaded environment.
+
+The calling code receives the account address upon creation. It never receives or has access to the private key.
+
+
+@subsection Signer RPC 
+
+The signer is expected to handle a subset of the standard JSON-RPC:
+
+@table @code
+@item personal_newAccount(password)
+Creates a new account, returning the account address.
+@item eth_signTransactions(tx_dict)
+Sign the transaction represented as a dictionary.
+@item eth_sign(address, message)
+Signs an arbtirary message with the standard Ethereum prefix.
+@end table

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/admin.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+@node cic-eth system maintenance
+@appendix Admin API
+
+The admin API is still in an early stage of refinement. User friendliness can be considerably improved.
+
+All of the API calls are celery task proxies, and return @code{Celery.AsyncResult} unless otherwise noted.
+
+In contrast to the client API module, this API does not currently implement a pluggable callback.
+
+@appendixsection registry
+
+Returns the @code{ContractRegistry} this instance of @code{cic-eth-tasker} is running on.
+
+@appendixsection proxy-do
+
+Execute an arbitary JSON-RPC request using the @code{cic-eth-tasker} blockchain node RPC connection.
+
+@appendixsection default_token
+
+Returns the default token symbol and address.
+
+@appendixsection lock
+
+Set lock bits, globally or per address
+
+@appendixsection unlock
+
+Opposite of lock
+
+@appendixsection get_lock
+
+Get the current state of a lock
+
+@appendixsection tag_account
+
+Associate an identifier with an account address (@xref{cic-eth system accounts})
+
+@appendixsection have_account
+
+Check whether a private key exists in the keystore able to sign on behalf of the given account (it actually performs a signature).
+
+@appendixsection resend
+
+Clone or resend a transaction
+
+@appendixsection check_nonce
+
+Returns diagnostics for nonce sequences per account, e.g. detect nonce gaps that block execution of further transactions.
+
+@appendixsection fix_nonce
+
+Re-orders all nonces by shifting all transaction nonces after the given transaction down by one. This has the additional effect of obsoleting the given transaction. Can be used to close gaps in the nonce sequencing. Use with care!
+
+@appendixsection account
+
+Return brief transaction info lists per account
+
+@appendixsection tx
+
+Return a complex transaction metadata object for a single transaction. The object assembles state from both the blockchain node and the custodial queue system.

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/all.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+\input texinfo
+@setfilename index.html
+@settitle CIC custodial services reference deployment
+
+@copying
+Released 2021 under GPL3
+@end copying
+
+@titlepage
+@title CIC custodial services reference deployment
+@author Louis Holbrook
+@end titlepage
+
+@c
+@contents
+
+@include index.texi
+

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/chains.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+@node cic-eth Appendix Task chains
+@appendix Task chains
+
+TBC - explain here how to generate these chain diagrams

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/configuration.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+@node cic-eth configuration
+@section Configuration
+
+(refer to @code{cic-base} for a general overview of the config pipeline)
+
+Configuration parameters are grouped by configuration filename.
+
+
+@subsection cic
+
+@table @var
+@item registry_address
+Ethereum address of the @var{ContractRegistry} contract
+@item chain_spec
+String representation of the connected blockchain according to the @var{chainlib} @var{ChainSpec} format.
+@item tx_retry_delay
+Minimum time in seconds to wait before retrying a transaction
+@item trust_address
+Comma-separated list of one or more ethereum addresses regarded as trusted for describing other resources, Used by @var{cic-eth-registry} in the context of the @var{AddressDeclarator}.
+@item defalt_token_symbol
+Fallback token to operate on when no other context is given.
+@item health_modules
+Comma-separated list of methods to execute liveness tests against. (see ...)
+@item run_dir
+Directory to use for session-scoped variables for @var{cic-eth} daemon parent processes.
+@end table
+
+
+@subsection celery
+
+@table @var
+@item broker_url
+Message broker URL
+@item result_url
+Result backend URL
+@item debug
+Boolean value. If set, the amount of available context for a task in the result backend will be maximized@footnote{This is a @emph{required} setting for the task graph documenter to enabled it to display task names in the graph}.
+@end table
+
+
+@subsection database
+
+See ref cic-base when ready
+
+
+@subsection eth
+
+@table @var
+@item provider
+Address of default RPC endpoint for transactions and state queries.
+@item gas_gifter_minimum_balance
+The minimum gas balance that must be held by the @code{GAS GIFTER} token before the queue processing shuts down@footnote{You should really make sure that this threshold is never hit}
+@end table
+
+
+@subsection redis
+
+Defines connection to the redis server used outside of the context of @var{celery}. This is usually the same server, but should be a different db.
+
+@table @var
+@item host
+Redis hostname
+@item port
+Redis port
+@item db
+Redis db
+@end table
+
+
+@subsection signer
+
+Parameters 
+
+@table @var
+@item socket_path
+The connection string for the signer JSON-RPC service.@footnote{The @var{crypto-dev-signer} supports UNIX socket or a HTTP(S) connections}
+@item secret
+If set, this password is used to add obfuscation on top of the encryption already applied by the signer for the keystore.
+@end table
+
+
+
+@subsection ssl
+
+Certificate information for https api callbacks.
+
+@table @var
+@item enable_client
+Boolean value. If set, client certificate will be used to authenticate the callback request.
+@item cert_file
+Client certificate file in PEM or DER format
+@item key_file
+Client key file in PEM or DER format
+@item password
+Password for unlocking the client key
+@item ca_file
+Certificate authority bundle, to verify the certificate sent by the callback server.
+@end table
+
+
+@subsection syncer
+
+@table @var
+@item loop_interval
+Seconds to pause before each execution of the @var{chainsyncer} poll loop.
+@end table
+
+

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/dependencies.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+@node cic-eth-dependencies
+@section Dependencies
+
+This application is written in Python 3.8. It is tightly coupled with @code{python-celery}, which provides the task worker ecosystem. It also uses @code{SQLAlchemy} which provides useful abstractions for persistent storage though SQL, and @code{alembic} for database schema migrations.
+
+There is currently also a somewhat explicit coupling with @code{Redis}, which is used as message broker for @code{python-celery}. @code{Redis} is also explicitly used by some CLI tools to retrieve results from command execution. This coupling may be relaxed in the future to allow other key-value pubsub solutions instead. 
+
+
+@subsection Generalized project dependencies
+
+The core features are built around four main independent components that have been developed for the purpose of this project, but are separated and maintained as general-purpose libraries.
+
+@table @samp
+@item chainlib
+A cross-chain library prototype that can provide encodings for transactions on a Solidity-based EVM contract network.
+@item chainqueue
+Queue manager that guarantees delivery of outgoing blockchain transactions.
+@item chainsyncer
+Monitors blockchains and guarantees execution of an arbitrary count of pluggable code objects for each block transaction.
+@item crypto-dev-signer
+An keystore capable of signing for the EVM chain through a standard Ethereum JSON-RPC interface.
+@end table
+
+@anchor{cic-eth-dependencies-smart-contracts}
+@subsection Smart contract dependencies
+
+The Smart contracts needed by the network must be discoverable through a single entry point called the Contract Registry. The contract registry is expected to reference itself in its records. The authenticity of the contract registry must be guaranteed by external sources of trust.
+
+The contract registry maps contract addresses to well-known identifiers. The contracts are as follows:
+
+@table @code
+@item ContractRegistry (points to self)
+Resolves plaintext identifiers to contract addresses.
+@item AccountRegistry
+An append-only store of accounts hosted by the custodial system
+@item TokenRegistry
+Unique symbol-to-address mappings for token contracts
+@item AddressDeclarator
+Reverse address to resource lookup
+@item TokenAuthorization
+Escrow contract for external spending on behalf of custodial users
+@item Faucet
+Called by newly created accounts to receive initial token balance
+@end table
+
+The dependency @code{cic-eth-registry} abstracts and facilitates lookups of resources on the blockchain network. In its current state it resolves tokens by symbol or address, and contracts by common-name identifiers. In the @code{cic-eth} code all lookups for EVM network resources will be performed through this dependency.

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/incoming.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+@node cic-eth-incoming
+@section Incoming transactions
+
+All transactions in mined blocks will be passed to a selection of plugin filters to the @code{chainsyncer} component. Each of these filters are individual python module files in @code{cic_eth.runnable.daemons.filters}. This section describes their function.
+
+The status bits refer to the bits definining the @code{chainqueue} state.
+
+
+@subsection tx
+
+Looks up the transaction in the local queue, and if found it sets the @code{FINAL} state bit. If the contract code execution was unsuccessful, the @code{NETWORK ERROR} state bit is also set.
+
+
+@subsection gas
+
+If the transaction is a gas token transfer, it checks if the recipient is a custodial account awaiting gas refill to execute a transaction (the queue item will have the @code{GAS ISSUES} bit set). If this is the case, the transaction will be activated by setting the @code{QUEUED} bit.
+
+
+@subsection register
+
+If the transaction is an account registration@footnote{The contract keyed by @var{AccountRegistry} in the @var{ContractRegistry} contract}, a Faucet transaction will be triggered for the registered account@footnote{The faucet contract used in the reference implementation will verify whether the account calling it is registered in the @var{AccountRegistry}. Thus it cannot be called before the account registration has succeeded.}
+
+
+@subsection callback
+
+Executes, in order, Celery tasks defined in the configuration variable @var{TASKS_TRANSFER_CALLBACKS}. Each of these tasks are registered as individual filters in the @code{chainsyncer} component, with the corresponding execution guarantees.
+
+The callbacks will receive the following arguments
+
+@enumerate
+@item @strong{result}
+A complex representation of the transaction (see section ?)
+@item @strong{transfertype}
+A string describing the type of transaction found@footnote{See appendix ? for an overview of possible values}
+@item @strong{status}
+0 if contract code executed successfully. Any other value is an error@footnote{The values 1-1024 are reserved for system specific errors. In the current implementation only a general error state with value 1 is defined. See appendix ?.}
+@end enumerate
+
+
+@subsection transferauth
+If a valid transfer authorization request has been made, a token @emph{allowance}@footnote{@code{approve} for ERC20 tokens} transaction is executed on behalf of the custodial account, with the @var{TransferAuthorization} contract as spender.
+
+
+
+@subsection convert
+If the transaction is a token conversion, @emph{and} there is a pending transfer registered for the conversion, the corresponding token transfer transaction will be executed. Not currently implemented
+
+
+

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/index.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+@top cic-eth
+
+@include intro.texi
+@include dependencies.texi
+@include configuration.texi
+@include system.texi
+@include interacting.texi
+@include outgoing.texi
+@include incoming.texi
+@include services.texi
+@include tools.texi
+@include admin.texi
+@include chains.texi
+@include transfertypes.texi

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/interacting.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+@node cic-eth-interacting
+@section Interacting with the system
+
+The API to the @var{cic-eth} component is a proxy for executing @emph{chains of Celery tasks}. The tasks that compose individual chains are documented in @ref{cic-eth Appendix Task chains,the Task Chain appendix}, which also describes a CLI tool that can generate graph representationso of them.
+
+There are two API classes, @var{Api} and @var{AdminApi}. The former is described later in this section, the latter described in @ref{cic-eth system maintenance,the Admin API appendix}.
+
+
+@subsection Interface
+
+API calls are constructed by creating @emph{Celery task signatures} and linking them together, sequentially and/or in parallell. In turn, the tasks themselves may spawn other asynchronous tasks. This means that the code in @file{cic_eth.api.*} does not necessarily specify the full task graph that will be executed for any one command.
+
+The operational guarantee that tasks will be executed, not forgotten, and retried under certain circumstances is deferred to @var{Celery}. On top of this, the @var{chainqueue} component ensures that semantic state changes that the @code{Celery} tasks ask of it are valid.
+
+
+@anchor{cic-eth-locking}
+@subsection Locking
+
+All methods that make a change to the blockchain network must pass @emph{locking layer checks}. Locks may be applied on a global or per-address basis. Lock states are defined by a combination of bit flags. The implemented lock bits are:
+
+@table @var
+@item INIT
+The system has not yet been initialized. In this state, writes are limited to creating unregistered accounts only.
+@item QUEUE
+Items may not be added to the queue
+@item SEND
+Queued items may not be attempted sent to the network
+@item CREATE (global-only)
+New accounts may not be created
+@item STICKY
+Until reset, no other part of the locking state can be reset
+@end table 
+
+
+@subsection Callback
+
+All API calls provide the option to attach a callback to the end of the task chain. This callback will be executed regardless of whether task chain execution succeeded or not.
+
+Refer to @file{cic-eth.callbacks.noop.noop} for the expected callback signature.
+
+
+@subsection API Methods that change state
+
+
+@subsubsection create_account
+
+Creates a new account in the keystore, optionally registering the account with the @var{AccountRegistry} contract.
+
+
+@subsubsection transfer
+
+Attempts to execute a token transaction between two addresses. It is the caller's responsibility to check whether the token balance is sufficient for the transactions.
+
+
+@subsubsection refill_gas
+
+Executes a gas token transfer to a custodial address from the @var{GAS GIFTER} system account.
+
+
+@subsubsection convert
+
+Converts a token to another token for the given custodial account. Currently not implemented.
+
+
+@anchor{cic-eth-convert-and-transfer}
+@subsubsection convert_and_transfer
+
+Same as convert, but will automatically execute a token transfer to another custodial account when conversion has been completed. Currently not implemented.
+
+
+@subsection Read-only API methods
+
+@subsubsection balance
+
+Retrieves a complex balance statement of a single account, including:
+
+@itemize
+@item The network balance at the current block height
+@item Value reductions due to by pending outgoing transactions
+@item Value increments due to by pending incoming transactions
+@end itemize
+
+Only the first of these balance items has guaranteed finality. The reduction by outgoing transaction can be reasonably be assumed to eventually become final. The same applies for the increment by incoming transaction, @emph{unless} the transfer is part of a multiple-transaction operation. For example, a @ref{cic-eth-convert-and-transfer,convert_and_transfer} operation may fail in the convert stage and/or may yield less tokens then expected after conversion.
+
+
+@subsubsection list
+
+Returns an aggregate iist of all token value changes for a given address. As not all value transfers are a result of literal value transfer contract calls (e.g. @var{transfer} and @var{transferFrom} in @var{ERC20}), this data may come from a number of sources, including:
+
+@itemize
+@item Literal value transfers within the custodial system
+@item Literal value transfers from or to an external address
+@item Faucet invocations (token minting)
+@item Demurrage and redistribution built into the token contract
+@end itemize
+
+
+@subsubsection default_token
+
+Return the symbol and address of the token used by default in the network.
+
+
+@subsubsection ping
+
+Convenience method for the caller to check whether the @var{cic-eth} engine is alive.
+
+
+
+

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/outgoing.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+@node cic-eth-outgoing
+@section Outgoing transactions
+
+@strong{Important! A pre-requisite for proper functioning of the component is that no other agent is sending transactions to the network for any of the keys in the keystore.}
+
+The term @var{state bit} refers to the bits definining the @code{chainqueue} state.
+
+@subsection Lock
+
+Any task that changes blockchain state @strong{must} apply a @code{QUEUE} lock for the address it operates on. This is to ensure that transactions are sent to the network in order.@footnote{If too many transactions arrive out of order to the blockchain node, it may arbitrarily prune those that cannot directly be included in a block. This puts unnecessary strain (and reliance) on the transaction retry mechanism.}
+
+This lock will be released once the blockchain node confirms handover of the transaction.@footnote{This is the responsibility of the @var{dispatcher} service}
+
+
+@subsection Nonce
+
+A separate task step is executed for binding a transaction nonce to a Celery task root id, which uniquely identifies the task chain. This provides atomicity of the nonce across the parallell task environment, and also recoverability in case unexpected program interruption.
+
+The nonce of a permanently failed task must be @emph{manually} unlocked. Celery tasks that involve nonces who permanently fail are to be considered @emph{critical anomalies} and should not happen. The queue locking mechanism is designed to prevent the amount of out-of-sequence transactions for an account to escalate.
+
+
+@subsection Choosing fee prices
+
+@code{cic-eth} uses the @code{chainlib} module to resolve gas price lookups.
+
+Optimizing gas price discovery should be the responsibility of the chainlib layer. It already accommodates using an separate RPC for the @code{eth_gasPrice} call.@footnote{A sample implementation of a gas price tracker speaking JSON-RPC (also built using chainlib/chainsyncer) can be found at @url{https://gitlab.com/nolash/eth-stat-syncer}.}
+
+
+@subsection Choosing gas limits
+
+To determine the gas limit of a transaction, normally the EVM node will be used to perform a dry-run exection of the inputs against the current chain state.
+
+As the current state of the custodial system should only rely on known, trusted contract bytecode, there is no real need for this mechanism. The @code{chainlib}-based contract interfaces are expected to provide a method call that return safe gas limit values for contract interactions.@footnote{Of course, this method call may in turn conceal more sophisticated gas limit heuristics.}
+
+Note that it is still the responsibility of @code{cic-eth} to make sure that the gas limit of the network is sufficient to allow execution of all needed contracts.
+
+
+@subsection Gas refills
+
+If the gas balance of a custodial account is below a certain threshold, a gas refill task will be spawned. The gas will be transferred from the @code{GAS GIFTER} system account.
+
+In the event that the balance is insufficient even for the imminent transaction@footnote{This will of course be the case when an account is first created, whereupon it has a balance of 0. The subsequent faucet call will spawn a gas refill task.}, execution of the transaction will be deferred until the gas refill transaction is completed. In this case the transaction will be marked with the @code{GAS ISSUES} state bit.
+
+The value chosen for the gas refill threshold should ideally allow enough of a margin to avoid the need of deferring transactions in the future.
+
+
+@subsection Queueing transactions
+
+Once the lock, nonce and gas processing parts has been completed, the transaction will be queued for sending. This means that the @code{QUEUED} state bit is set. From here the @ref{cic-eth-services-dispatcher,dispatcher service} takes over responsibility.
+
+
+@subsection Retrying transactions
+
+There are three conditions create the need to defer and retry transactions.
+
+The first is communication problems with the blockchain node itself, for example if it is overloaded or being restarted. As far as possible, retries of this nature will be left to the Celery task workers. There may be cases, however, where it is appropriate to hand the responsibility to the @code{chainqueue} instead. In this case, the queue item will have the @code{NODE ERROR} state bit set.
+
+The second condition occurs when transactions take too long to be confirmed by the network. In this case, the transaction will be re-submitted, but with a higher gas price.
+
+The third condition occurs when the blockchain node purges the transaction from the mempool before it is sent to the network. @code{cic-eth} does not distinguish this case from the second, as the issue is solved using the same mechanism.
+
+
+@subsubsection Transaction obsoletion
+
+"Re-submitting" a transaction means creating a transaction with a previously used nonce for an account address.
+
+When this happens, The @code{chainqueue} will still contain all previous transactions with the same nonce. The transaction being superseded will have the @code{OBSOLETED} state bit set.
+
+Once a transaction has been mined, all other transactions with the same node will have the @code{OBSOLETED} and @code{FINAL} state bits set.
+
+
+@subsection Unexpected conditions
+
+Any unexpected condition exposing the need for urgent code improvement and/or manual intervention will be signalled by marking the transaction with the @code{FUBAR} state bit set.

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/overview.texi

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-@node cic-eth
-@chapter cic-eth
-
-@section Overview
-
-@code{cic-eth} is the heart of the custodial account component. It is a combination of python-celery task queues and daemons that sign, dispatch and monitor blockchain transactions, aswell as triggering tasks contingent on other transactions.
-
-@subsection Dependencies
-
-The @code{cic-registry} module is used as a cache for contracts and tokens on the network.
-
-A web3 JSON-RPC service that transparently proxies a keystore and provides transaction and message signing. The current development version uses the python web3 middleware feature to route methodsi involving the keystore to the module @code{crypto-dev-signer}, which is hosted on @file{pypi.org}.
-
-@subsection What does it do
-
-
-
-@subsection Tasks
-
-Two main categories exist for tasks, @code{eth} and @code{queue}.
-
-The @code{eth} tasks provide means to construct and decode Ethereum transactions, as well as interfacing the underlying key store.
-
-Tasks in the @code{queue} module operate on the state of transactions queued for processing by @code{cic-eth}.

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/services.texi

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+@node cic-eth-services
+@section Services
+
+There are four daemons that together orchestrate all of the aforementioned recipes. This section will provide a high level description of them. 
+
+Each of them have their own set of command line flags. These are available in the CLI help text provided by @kbd{-h} @kbd{--help} and are not recited here.
+
+Daemon executable scripts are located in the @file{cic_eth.runnable.daemons} package. If @var{cic-eth} is installed as a python package, they are installed as executables in @var{PATH}.
+
+
+@subsection tasker
+
+This is the heart of the custodial system. Tasker is the parent process for the celery workers executing all tasks interacting with and changing the state of the queue and the chain. It is also the only service that interfaces with the signer/keystore.
+
+The other @var{cic-eth} daemons all interface with this component, along with any client adapter bridging an end-user gateway (e.g. @var{cic-ussd}). However, the service itself does not have to be actively running for the other services to run; @var{Celery} handles queueing up the incoming tasks until the @var{tasker} comes back online.@footnote{Whereas this is true, there is currently no fail-safe implemented to handles the event of task backlog overflow in Celery. Furthermore, no targeted testing has yet been performed to asses the stability of the system over time if a sudden, sustained surge of resumed task executions occurs. It may be advisable to suspend activity that adds new queue items to the system if volume is high and/or the @var{cic-eth} outage endures. However, there is no panacea for this condition, as every usage scenario is different}
+
+The tasker has a set of pre-requisites that must be fulfilled before it will start
+
+@itemize
+@item It must be given a valid @var{ContractRegistry} address, which must include valid references to all contracts specified in @ref{cic-eth-dependencies-smart-contracts,Smart contract dependencies}
+@item The gas gifter balance must be above the minimum threshold (See "eth" section in configurations).
+@item There must be a valid alembic migration record in the storage database
+@item The redis backend must be reachable and writable
+@item There must be a reachable JSON-RPC server at the other end of the signer socket path (see "signer" section in configurations)
+@end itemize
+
+
+@subsection tracker
+
+Implements the @var{chainsyncer}, and registers the filters described in @ref{cic-eth-incoming,Incoming Transactions} to be executed for every transaction. It consumes the appropriate @var{TASKS_TRANSFER_CALLBACKS} configuration setting to add externally defined filters at without having to change the daemon code.
+
+The @var{tracker} has the same requisities for the @var{ContractRegistry} as the @var{tasker}.
+
+@strong{Important! Guarantees of filter executions has some caveats. Refer to the @var{chainsyncer} documentation for more details.}
+
+
+@anchor{cic-eth-services-dispatcher}
+@subsection dispatcher
+
+Uses the @code{get_upcoming_tx} method call from @var{chainqueue} to receive batches of queued transactions that are ready to send to the blockchain node. Every batch will only contain a single transaction by any one address, which will be the transaction with the next nonce not previously seen by the network. There is no limit currently set to how many transactions that will be included in a single batch.
+
+
+@subsection retrier
+
+The responsibility of the @var{retrier} is to re-queue transactions that failed to be sent to the blockchain node, as well as create @emph{replacements} for transactions whose processing by the network has been delayed. @strong{[refer transaction obolestion]}.
+
+It is in turn the responsiblity of the @var{dispatcher} to send these (re-)queued transactions to the blockchain node.
+
+
+

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/system.texi

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+@node cic-eth system accounts
+@section System initialization
+
+When the system starts for the first time, it is locked for any state change request other than account creation@footnote{Specifically, the @code{INIT}, @code{SEND} and @code{QUEUE} lock bits are set.}. These locks should be @emph{reset} once system initialization has been completed. Currently, system initialization only involves creating and tagging required system accounts, as specified below.
+
+See @ref{cic-eth-locking,Locking} and @ref{cic-eth-tools-ctrl,ctrl in Tools} for details on locking.
+
+@subsection System accounts
+
+Certain accounts in the system have special roles. These are defined by @emph{tagging} certain accounts addresses with well-known identifiers.
+
+@table @var
+@item GAS_GIFTER
+This account @strong{must} at all times have enough gas token to fund any custodial account address in need.
+@item ACCOUNT_REGISTRY_WRITER
+This account @strong{must} have access to add newly created account addresses to the (@xref{cic-eth-dependencies-smart-contracts,Smart contract dependencies})
+@end table

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/tools.texi

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+@node cic-eth-tools
+@section Tools
+
+A collection of CLI tools have been provided to help with diagnostics and other administrative tasks. These use the same configuration infrastructure as the daemons.
+
+Tool scripts are located in the @file{cic_eth.runnable} package. If @var{cic-eth} is installed as a python package, they are installed as executables in @var{PATH}.
+
+
+@subsection info (cic-eth-info)
+
+Returns self-explanatory metadata for the blockchain network, and optionally an address.
+
+
+@subsection inspect (cic-eth-inspect)
+
+Returns information about a specific resource related to the tranasaction queue. The results returned depend on the type of the argument.
+
+@table @var
+@item lock
+If the argument is the literal string @kbd{lock}, it will list all active lock settings currently in effect. (@xref{cic-eth-locking})
+@item <address>
+If the argument is a 0x-prefixed hex string of 42 characters, it returns all transactions where the specified address is a sender or recipient@footnote{If the address is the gas gifter or the accounts index writer, this may be a @emph{lot} of transactions. Use with care!}
+@item <tx_hash>
+If the argument is a 0x-prefixed hex string of 66 characters, it returns data from the custodial queueing system aswell as the network for a single transaction whose hash matches the input. Fails if the transaction does not exist in the queue
+@item <code>
+If the argument is a 0x-prefixed hex string longer than 66 bytes, the argument will be interpreted as raw RLP serialized transaction data, and attempt to match this with an entry in the queue. If a match is found, the result is the same as for @var{<tx_hash>}
+@end table
+
+
+@subsection create (cic-eth-create)
+
+Create a new account, optionally registering the account in the accounts registry, and optionally receiving the newly created address through a redis subscription.
+
+@subsection transfer (cic-eth-transfer)
+
+Execute a token transfer on behalf of a custodial account.
+
+@subsection tag (cic-eth-tag)
+
+Associate an account address with a string identifier. @xref{cic-eth system accounts}
+
+
+@anchor{cic-eth-tools-ctrl}
+@subsection ctrl (cic-eth-ctrl)
+
+Set or reset lock bits, globally or per account address.
+
+@subsection resend (cic-eth-resend)
+
+Resend a transaction. This can either be done "in-place," which means increasing the gas price and re-queueing@footnote{this is the same thing that the retrier does}. It can also be used to @emph{clone} a transaction, which obviously will duplicate the effect of the cloned transaction on the blockchain network.
+

apps/cic-eth/doc/texinfo/transfertypes.texi

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+@node cic-eth Appendix Transaction types
+@appendix Transfer types
+
+@table @var
+@item transfer
+A regular token transfer, e.g. ERC20 @code{transfer}
+@item transferfrom
+A token transfer performed on behalf of another party, e.g. ERC20 @code{transferFrom}
+@item tokengift
+Result of a successful faucet request.
+@end table

apps/contract-migration/scripts/cic_eth/paths.py

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+# standard imports
+import sys
+import os
+import logging
+import json
+
+# external imports
+import celery
+import confini
+
+# local imports
+from cic_eth.api import Api
+
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
+logg = logging.getLogger()
+
+
+script_dir = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+config_dir = os.path.join(script_dir, '..', 'config')
+config = confini.Config(config_dir, os.environ.get('CONFINI_ENV_PREFIX'))
+config.process()
+
+celery_app = celery.Celery(broker=config.get('CELERY_BROKER_URL'), backend=config.get('CELERY_RESULT_URL'), result_extended=True)
+
+
+class Fmtr(celery.utils.graph.GraphFormatter):
+
+    def label(self, obj):
+        super(Fmtr, self).label(obj)
+        if obj != None:
+            if obj.name == None:
+                raise RuntimeError('task name is not defined. Did you run celery with result_extended=True?')
+            return obj.name
+
+
+def main():
+    api = Api(
+        config.get('CIC_CHAIN_SPEC'),
+        queue='cic-eth',
+        #callback_param='{}:{}:{}:{}'.format(args.redis_host_callback, args.redis_port_callback, redis_db, redis_channel),
+        #callback_task='cic_eth.callbacks.redis.redis',
+        #callback_queue=args.q,
+        )
+    t = api.create_account(register=False)
+    t.get_leaf()
+    t.build_graph(intermediate=True, formatter=Fmtr()).to_dot(sys.stdout)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

docker-compose.yml

@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ services:
       BANCOR_DIR: ${BANCOR_DIR:-/usr/local/share/cic/bancor}
       CELERY_BROKER_URL: ${CELERY_BROKER_URL:-redis://redis}
       CELERY_RESULT_URL: ${CELERY_RESULT_URL:-redis://redis}
+      CELERY_DEBUG: ${CELERY_DEBUG:-1}
       SIGNER_SOCKET_PATH: ${SIGNER_SOCKET_PATH:-ipc:///run/crypto-dev-signer/jsonrpc.ipc}
       SIGNER_SECRET: ${SIGNER_SECRET:-deadbeef}
       ETH_ACCOUNT_ACCOUNTS_INDEX_WRITER: ${DEV_ETH_ACCOUNT_ACCOUNTS_INDEX_WRITER:-0xACB0BC74E1686D62dE7DC6414C999EA60C09F0eA}