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Enhance CLI arguments

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by tracing the CLI argument definitions and validation for --remote-node-url, -n, --contract-address, and --remote-node-deploy. Confirm the intended behavior for each combination, then make contradictory inputs fail with clear errors and verify the local-development CLI still supports valid configurations.

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Description

At the last community call @matthew1001 raise the fact that the CLI arguments have become confusing and contradictory. Presence of contradictory flags does not throw an error and the behaviour is confusing to users:

  • --remote-node-url and -n should not work together as one is pointing to a remote node and the other specifying what flavour (besu for example) to run a node locally in Docker.
  • --contract-address and --remote-node-deploy some confusing caused on how to deploy the multiparty contract

@nguyer made a great comment to highlight that this CLI was built to be able to quickly run Firefly locally for development and not intended for production. There are set of helm charts for that https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-helm-charts

@matthew1001 feel free to add more information!

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