hardhat-graph [POC/WIP]

This is a hardhat plugin that aims to make subgraph building easy for Ethereum developers. The goal is to allow the users to mimic a big portion of the graph-cli functionality. Below you can see a list of the currently available tasks, for a demo project that show how to use the pulgin you can check this repo.

NOTE: This project is POC/WIP, there could be breaking changes or bugs.

Tasks

init

• Expects two parameters: contractName: 'MyContract' and address: '0x123..'
• Has optional param startBlock - the optional number of the block that the data source starts indexing from
• Workflow:
  • Generates a subgraph in ./subgraph using generateScaffold from graph-cli
  • Generates a network.json file in ./subgraph using initNetworksConfig from graph-cli
  • Initializes a new repo if one does not currently exist. (Currently it does not create an initial commit)
  • Generates or updates an existing .gitignore file.
  • Runs codegen command
• Example usage:

async function deploy(contractName: string) {
  ....
  await contract.deployed();
  return { contractName: contractName , address: contract.address}
}

deploy()
  .then((result) => hre.run('init', result))
  .then(() => process.exit(0))
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exit(1);
  });

update

• Expects two parameters: contractName: 'MyContract' and address: '0x123..'
• Has optional param startBlock - the optional number of the block that the data source starts indexing from
• Workflow:
  • Updates the contract ABI in ./subgraph/abis
  • Updates the contract Address in network.json if it's deployed to the same network. If the contract has been deployed to a network that is not present in the config file, adds an entry for the new network.
  • Checks for changes to the contract events. If there are any changes the task will exit and the user will be informed and prompted to address the changes in the subgraph.yaml file and manually run codegen and build.
  • Runs codegen if there are no changes to the contract events.
  • For now you'll have to manually run graph build --network <network> from the subgraph folder if you want to update the dataSources network in the subgraph.
• Example usage:

async function deploy(contractName: string) {
  ....
  await contract.deployed();
  return { contractName: contractName , address: contract.address}
}

deploy()
  .then((result) => hre.run('update', result))
  .then(() => process.exit(0))
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exit(1);
  });

add

• Expects one mandatory parameter: address: '0x123..
• Has optional param startBlock - the optional number of the block that the data source starts indexing from
• Has four optional paramaters:
  • subgraphYaml: path/to/subgraph.yaml (default is './subgraph.yaml')
  • abi: path/to/Contract.json Loads abi from file
  • mergeEntities When this flag is given new entities with already taken names are skipped
  • contractName: MyContract (default is 'Contract')
• Workflow:
  • Checks whether the subgraph exists and creates a command line of the arguments passed
  • Runs graph add from the graph-cli with the given params which updates the subgraph.yaml, schema.graphql and adds a new abi and mapping file
  • Runs codegen

graph

• Expects two parameters: contractName: 'MyContract' and address: '0x123.. and an optional positional parameter subtask <init|update|add>.
• Workflow:
  • Conditionally runs either init, update or add tasks depending if a subgraph already exists or not. If the optional param subtask is passed it will run that subtask instead.
• Example usage:

async function deploy(contractName: string) {
  ....
  await contract.deployed();
  const deployTx = await contract.deployTransaction.wait();
  return { contractName: MyContract , address: contract.address, blockNumber: deployTx.blockNumber}
}

deploy()
  .then((result) => hre.run('graph', result))
  .then(() => process.exit(0))
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exit(1);
  });

or

npx hardhat graph <init|update|add> --contract-name MyContract --address 0x123... # the subtask parameter is optional

How to

NOTE: npm >7 should auto-install peerDependencies from plugins, but if they are not or you're using yarn, add

"@graphprotocol/graph-cli": "^0.30.0",
"@graphprotocol/graph-ts": "^0.27.0",

to the hardhat project package.json (Because the graph add command was added in version 0.30.0, this is also the minimum required version)

The plugin can be installed from the repo:

{
  ...
  "devDependencies": {
    "hardhat-graph": "https://github.com/graphprotocol/hardhat-graph"
    ...
  }
}

or from a specific branch:

{
  ...
  "devDependencies": {
    "hardhat-graph": "https://github.com/graphprotocol/hardhat-graph#branch_name"
    ...
  }
}

Import the plugin in your hardhat.config file:

JS: require("@graphprotocol/hardhat-graph")

TS: import "@graphprotocol/hardhat-graph"

Configurable options in hardhat.config file

JS:

module.exports = {
  ...
  subgraph: {
    name: 'MySubgraph', // Defaults to the name of the root folder of the hardhat project
    product: 'hosted-service'|'subgraph-studio', // Defaults to 'subgraph-studio'
    indexEvents: true|false, // Defaults to false
    allowSimpleName: true|false // Defaults to `false` if product is `hosted-service` and `true` if product is `subgraph-studio`
  },
  paths: {
    subgraph: './path/to/subgraph' // Defaults to './subgraph'
  }
}

TS:

export default {
  ...
  subgraph: {
    name: 'MySubgraph', // Defaults to the name of the root folder of the hardhat project
    product: 'hosted-service'|'subgraph-studio', // Defaults to 'subgraph-studio'
    indexEvents: true|false, // Defaults to false
    allowSimpleName: true|false // Defaults to `false` if product is `hosted-service` and `true` if product is `subgraph-studio`
  },
  paths: {
    subgraph: './path/to/subgraph' // Defaults to './subgraph'
  }
}

Running local graph node against local hardhat node

1. Create a docker-compose.yml file:

version: '3'
services:
  graph-node:
    image: graphprotocol/graph-node
    ports:
      - '8000:8000'
      - '8001:8001'
      - '8020:8020'
      - '8030:8030'
      - '8040:8040'
    depends_on:
      - ipfs
      - postgres
    extra_hosts:
      - host.docker.internal:host-gateway
    environment:
      postgres_host: postgres
      postgres_user: graph-node
      postgres_pass: let-me-in
      postgres_db: graph-node
      ipfs: 'ipfs:5001'
      ethereum: 'localhost:http://host.docker.internal:8545'
      GRAPH_LOG: info
  ipfs:
    image: ipfs/go-ipfs:v0.10.0
    ports:
      - '5001:5001'
    volumes:
      - ./data/ipfs:/data/ipfs
  postgres:
    image: postgres
    ports:
      - '5432:5432'
    command:
      [
        "postgres",
        "-cshared_preload_libraries=pg_stat_statements"
      ]
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: graph-node
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: let-me-in
      POSTGRES_DB: graph-node
      PGDATA: "/data/postgres"
    volumes:
      - ./data/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data

2. Add the following to the networks configuration in your hardhat.config file:

{
  ...
  networks: {
      localhost: {
        url: "http://0.0.0.0:8545",
      },
    },
   ...
 }

3. Run the hardhat node with npx hardhat node --hostname 0.0.0.0
4. Deploy your contract[s] to the localhost network either with a deploy script/task or through the hardhat console npx hardhat console --network localhost
5. Update the network configuration in subgraph.yaml file to localhost and the addresses to the deployed contract addresses (You can use yarn build --network localhost. If you use graph-cli >= 0.32.0 you can skip this step and see step 7)
6. Run docker-compose up or docker compose up
7. Create and deploy the subgraph using the commands in the package.json yarn create-local and yarn deploy-local (Since graph-cli 0.32.0 you can use --network localhost option with the deploy command, similarly to yarn build in step 5)
8. Interact with your contract
9. Query the subgraph from http://127.0.0.1:8000/subgraphs/name/<your-subgraph-name>/graphql

NOTE: If for any reason you stop the hardhat node, it is recommended to stop the graph node, delete the ipfs and postgres folders in data (or the whole data folder) created by the graph node (you can run yarn graph-local-clean that will do that for you), and then repeat steps 3-9.