feat(chain): add skip-proto flag

changelog.md

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Features
+
+- Add `--skip-proto` flag to `build`, `init` and `serve` commands to build the chain without building proto files
+
 ## [`v0.23.0`](https://github.com/ignite/cli/releases/tag/v0.23.0)
 
 ### Features

ignite/cmd/chain_build.go

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Sample usages:
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetHome())
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetProto3rdParty("Available only without the --release flag"))
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetCheckDependencies())
+	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetSkipProto())
 	c.Flags().Bool(flagRelease, false, "build for a release")
 	c.Flags().StringSliceP(flagReleaseTargets, "t", []string{}, "release targets. Available only with --release flag")
 	c.Flags().String(flagReleasePrefix, "", "tarball prefix for each release target. Available only with --release flag")
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ func chainBuildHandler(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	binaryName, err := c.Build(cmd.Context(), cacheStorage, output)
+	binaryName, err := c.Build(cmd.Context(), cacheStorage, output, flagGetSkipProto(cmd))
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

ignite/cmd/chain_init.go

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ func NewChainInit() *cobra.Command {
 	flagSetClearCache(c)
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetHome())
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetCheckDependencies())
+	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetSkipProto())
 
 	return c
 }
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ func chainInitHandler(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if _, err := c.Build(cmd.Context(), cacheStorage, ""); err != nil {
+	if _, err := c.Build(cmd.Context(), cacheStorage, "", flagGetSkipProto(cmd)); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 

ignite/cmd/chain_serve.go

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ func NewChainServe() *cobra.Command {
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetHome())
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetProto3rdParty(""))
 	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetCheckDependencies())
+	c.Flags().AddFlagSet(flagSetSkipProto())
 	c.Flags().BoolP("verbose", "v", false, "Verbose output")
 	c.Flags().BoolP(flagForceReset, "f", false, "Force reset of the app state on start and every source change")
 	c.Flags().BoolP(flagResetOnce, "r", false, "Reset of the app state on first start")
@@ -85,5 +86,9 @@ func chainServeHandler(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		serveOptions = append(serveOptions, chain.ServeResetOnce())
 	}
 
+	if flagGetSkipProto(cmd) {
+		serveOptions = append(serveOptions, chain.ServeSkipProto())
+	}
+
 	return c.Serve(cmd.Context(), cacheStorage, serveOptions...)
 }

ignite/cmd/cmd.go

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ const (
 	flagProto3rdParty = "proto-all-modules"
 	flagYes           = "yes"
 	flagClearCache    = "clear-cache"
+	flagSkipProto     = "skip-proto"
 
 	checkVersionTimeout = time.Millisecond * 600
 	cacheFileName       = "ignite_cache.db"
@@ -140,6 +141,17 @@ func flagGetProto3rdParty(cmd *cobra.Command) bool {
 	return isEnabled
 }
 
+func flagSetSkipProto() *flag.FlagSet {
+	fs := flag.NewFlagSet("", flag.ContinueOnError)
+	fs.Bool(flagSkipProto, false, "Skip file generation from proto")
+	return fs
+}
+
+func flagGetSkipProto(cmd *cobra.Command) bool {
+	skip, _ := cmd.Flags().GetBool(flagSkipProto)
+	return skip
+}
+
 func flagSetClearCache(cmd *cobra.Command) {
 	cmd.PersistentFlags().Bool(flagClearCache, false, "Clear the build cache (advanced)")
 }

ignite/services/chain/build.go

@@ -30,19 +30,29 @@ const (
 )
 
 // Build builds and installs app binaries.
-func (c *Chain) Build(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, output string) (binaryName string, err error) {
+func (c *Chain) Build(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	cacheStorage cache.Storage,
+	output string,
+	skipProto bool,
+) (binaryName string, err error) {
 	if err := c.setup(); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 
-	if err := c.build(ctx, cacheStorage, output); err != nil {
+	if err := c.build(ctx, cacheStorage, output, skipProto); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 
 	return c.Binary()
 }
 
-func (c *Chain) build(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, output string) (err error) {
+func (c *Chain) build(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	cacheStorage cache.Storage,
+	output string,
+	skipProto bool,
+) (err error) {
 	defer func() {
 		var exitErr *exec.ExitError
 
@@ -51,8 +61,11 @@ func (c *Chain) build(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, output st
 		}
 	}()
 
-	if err := c.generateAll(ctx, cacheStorage); err != nil {
-		return err
+	// generate from proto files
+	if !skipProto {
+		if err := c.generateFromConfig(ctx, cacheStorage); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
 	}
 
 	buildFlags, err := c.preBuild(ctx, cacheStorage)

ignite/services/chain/generate.go

@@ -55,14 +55,16 @@ func GenerateOpenAPI() GenerateTarget {
 	}
 }
 
-func (c *Chain) generateAll(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage) error {
+// generateFromConfig makes code generation from proto files from the given config
+func (c *Chain) generateFromConfig(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage) error {
 	conf, err := c.Config()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
 	var additionalTargets []GenerateTarget
 
+	// parse config for additional target
 	if conf.Client.Vuex.Path != "" {
 		additionalTargets = append(additionalTargets, GenerateVuex())
 	}

ignite/services/chain/serve.go

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ var (
 type serveOptions struct {
 	forceReset bool
 	resetOnce  bool
+	skipProto  bool
 }
 
 func newServeOption() serveOptions {
@@ -83,6 +84,13 @@ func ServeResetOnce() ServeOption {
 	}
 }
 
+// ServeSkipProto allows to serve the app without generate Go from proto
+func ServeSkipProto() ServeOption {
+	return func(c *serveOptions) {
+		c.skipProto = true
+	}
+}
+
 // Serve serves an app.
 func (c *Chain) Serve(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, options ...ServeOption) error {
 	serveOptions := newServeOption()
@@ -138,7 +146,7 @@ func (c *Chain) Serve(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, options .
 				shouldReset := serveOptions.forceReset || serveOptions.resetOnce
 
 				// serve the app.
-				err = c.serve(serveCtx, cacheStorage, shouldReset)
+				err = c.serve(serveCtx, cacheStorage, shouldReset, serveOptions.skipProto)
 				serveOptions.resetOnce = false
 
 				switch {
@@ -247,7 +255,7 @@ func (c *Chain) watchAppBackend(ctx context.Context) error {
 // serve performs the operations to serve the blockchain: build, init and start
 // if the chain is already initialized and the file didn't changed, the app is directly started
 // if the files changed, the state is imported
-func (c *Chain) serve(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, forceReset bool) error {
+func (c *Chain) serve(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, forceReset, skipProto bool) error {
 	conf, err := c.Config()
 	if err != nil {
 		return &CannotBuildAppError{err}
@@ -328,7 +336,7 @@ func (c *Chain) serve(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage, forceRese
 	// build phase
 	if !isInit || appModified {
 		// build the blockchain app
-		if err := c.build(ctx, cacheStorage, ""); err != nil {
+		if err := c.build(ctx, cacheStorage, "", skipProto); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}

ignite/services/network/networkchain/networkchain.go

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ func (c *Chain) Build(ctx context.Context, cacheStorage cache.Storage) (binaryNa
 	c.ev.Send(events.New(events.StatusOngoing, "Building the chain's binary"))
 
 	// build binary
-	if binaryName, err = c.chain.Build(ctx, cacheStorage, ""); err != nil {
+	if binaryName, err = c.chain.Build(ctx, cacheStorage, "", true); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}