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@Fletch153 Fletch153 commented Apr 15, 2026

Why

The simulator was EVM-only by construction. Adding a second chain family meant editing dozens of call sites across simulate.go.

What changed

EVM is now one implementation of a chain-family interface instead of the only shape the simulator understands. EVM-specific code — clients, capabilities, health checks, trigger parsing, CLI flags, limits lives under its own package. The simulator iterates registered families rather than calling EVM directly.

No user-facing behaviour changes. No CLI, config, or limit changes.

Out of scope / follow-ups

  • Second chain family (Aptos / Solana). The whole point of this refactor. Will surface any remaining EVM assumptions the interface didn't flush out. This PR is focused purely on relocating code and making subtle improvements to the modularity.

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  • cmd/generate-bindings/bindings/abigen/bind.go
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  • cmd/generate-bindings/bindings/abigen/template.go

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cc @smartcontractkit/bix-framework

…rchitecture

Introduce ChainFamily interface and package-level registry enabling
future Aptos/Solana chain support. Extract all EVM-specific simulation
code into cmd/workflow/simulate/chain/evm/ package with self-registration
via init().

- Add ChainFamily interface with 7 methods (Name, ResolveClients,
  RegisterCapabilities, ExecuteTrigger, ParseTriggerChainSelector,
  RunHealthCheck, SupportedChains)
- Add thread-safe chain family registry with Register/Get/All/Names
- Move EVM health checks, trigger parsing, supported chains list,
  and limited capabilities into chain/evm package
- Refactor simulate.go to iterate registered families instead of
  hardcoding EVM logic
- Fix EVM chains not being Start()ed after registration
- Remove redundant blank import (named import triggers init())
- Rename test stubs for clarity
@Fletch153 Fletch153 force-pushed the plex-2751-modularise-chain-families branch from b13b64c to 1d3000b Compare April 15, 2026 11:44
- Restore missing debug/error log statements in EVM ResolveClients
- Restore ExecuteTrigger nil guards (f.evmChains, EVMChains[selector])
- Restore ui.Success for EVM log discovery in fetchAndConvertLog
- Restore comments: Use Opaque, runRPCHealthCheck semantics, regex example
- Track experimentalSelectors on EVMFamily, pass to RunHealthCheck
- Factory-pattern family registration with logger injection (chain.Build)
- Extract ResolveKey + ResolveTriggerData to EVM family
- Extract simulator_utils.go contents; WorkflowExecutionTimeout to simulate.go
- RegisterCapabilities returns []services.Service for lifecycle parity
- getTriggerDataForFamily doc comment chain-agnostic
- PROMPT.md + SMOKE_TESTS.md audit artifacts (65 tests)
Covers ResolveKey private-key matrix (valid/invalid/sentinel/empty
across broadcast and non-broadcast), LimitedEVMChain delegation for
every method, trigger hash validation and log-fetch mock scenarios,
supported-chains invariants (unique selectors, valid 20-byte
forwarders), and extended health-check labelling for experimental,
known, and unknown selectors.

100+ new test cases, zero production code changes.
@Fletch153 Fletch153 force-pushed the plex-2751-modularise-chain-families branch from dab3e25 to cbf498d Compare April 15, 2026 21:33
Replace EVMTxHash/EVMEventIndex on TriggerParams with a generic
FamilyInputs string map so each chain family owns its input keys.
Unify EVMChainLimits as a type alias for chain.Limits, removing the
redundant interface and the type assertion in RegisterCapabilities.
Guard against the typed-nil interface trap when boxing SimulationLimits.
…gistry

Chain families now own their CLI flag definitions and input collection,
removing all EVM-specific knowledge from simulate.go. Fixes a potential
deadlock in registry.Get() by extracting namesLocked() helper, and
guards ResolveKey to skip families without configured clients.
@Fletch153 Fletch153 force-pushed the plex-2751-modularise-chain-families branch from 88045cc to b9a4f58 Compare April 16, 2026 09:41
Drop EVM prefix from the chain.Limits interface method to better
reflect the generic abstraction layer.
fetchAndConvertLog now takes a verbose flag. Interactive mode emits
ui.Success messages as before; non-interactive mode stays silent,
matching the original behavior.
Rename the chain abstraction from "family" to "type" for clearer
domain language. EVM is a chain type, not a chain family.

- ChainFamily interface → ChainType
- EVMFamily struct → EVMChainType
- family.go → chaintype.go (file rename)
- FamilyClients/Forwarders/Keys/Inputs → ChainTypeClients/etc
- getTriggerDataForFamily → getTriggerDataForChainType
- Import alias chaintype → corekeys (conflict avoidance)
- All comments, error strings, test names updated
- Remove redundant copyloopvar 'tt := tt' (Go 1.22+)
- Remove unused evmCapabilityBaseStub embed in fullStubCapability
- Convert 'switch { case x == a }' to 'switch x { case a }' (staticcheck QF1002)
- Fix goimports formatting
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Consolidated review-feedback fixes on top of the chain-family refactor.

Interface cleanup (makes the abstraction live up to its chain-agnostic
name):

- chain.Limits: narrow to ChainWriteReportSizeLimit only; move
  ChainWriteGasLimit onto a new evm.EVMChainLimits sub-interface so
  EVM-specific accessors do not leak into the generic contract.
- chain.ResolvedChains: new struct returned from ResolveClients, carrying
  clients, forwarders, and experimental-selector flags. Replaces the
  hidden cross-method state the EVM implementation was keeping on its
  struct for RunHealthCheck to read.
- ChainType.ResolveClients and ChainType.RunHealthCheck adopt the new
  return/argument shape.

User-visible parity with main:

- Per-family error prefix restored when trigger-data resolution fails,
  using the family name (e.g. 'Failed to get evm trigger data: ...').
- 'No {name} chain initialized for selector %d' uses the registry-key
  name rather than a manually-uppercased variant.

Small cleanups touched on the way:

- Hoist the 'RPC health check failed:' wrap from evm.RunRPCHealthCheck
  to the simulate.go caller so a future second chain family cannot
  produce doubled headers.
- Remove dead ManualTriggers.Close (no callers before or after this PR).
- Rename the EVMChainLimits test stub to stubEVMLimits to stop it
  colliding by one letter with the production EVMChainLimits alias.
…chain-families

# Conflicts:
#	cmd/workflow/simulate/simulate.go
Merge from main pulled in the disableEngineLimits function but the call
site in WorkflowSettingsCfgFn was dropped during conflict resolution,
leaving the function unused. Re-add the `--limits none` branch so engine
limits are actually disabled when requested.
Distinguish manual trigger capabilities (cron, HTTP) from chain-related
capabilities by using an explicit name at the call sites.
HasSelector guard upstream and per-selector check inside ResolveTriggerData
make the map-level check unreachable; remove to reduce indirection.
- Append manualTriggerCaps cron/HTTP services immediately after creation so
  the shutdown order matches main (cron/HTTP before chain-type services).
- Revert "Failed to create cron/HTTP trigger capabilities" back to
  "Failed to create trigger capabilities" to match main.
- Rename ManualTriggers receiver t -> m to match main.
- Use corekeys.EVM directly for chain.Register; import in chain/evm package.
- Push string -> common.Address forwarder conversion into
  NewEVMChainCapabilities so it happens only for chains with clients;
  drop intermediate map in RegisterCapabilities.
- Remove Inputs.ChainTypeForwarders; read forwarders via
  ChainTypeResolved[name].Forwarders for a single source of truth.
Remove 29 net-new tests plus delegation test file (~1100 lines) that
verified tautologies, library behaviour, compile-time invariants, or
one-line pass-throughs. Merge the 'more' and 'validation' split files
back into their single-file counterparts.

Deletions:
- limited_capabilities_delegation_test.go (whole file): verified
  stub.calls[method]==1 on pass-through methods. WriteReport gating
  logic (size+gas) remains covered by limited_capabilities_test.go.
- chaintype_test.go: literal-constant getters, crypto-library echo,
  duplicate ResolveKey cases already in the table, one-line
  delegation, compile-time interface check.
- health_more_test.go: nil/empty-map tautologies and exact duplicates
  of tests in health_test.go.
- supported_chains_test.go: pin tests (NotEmpty, EthereumMainnet,
  Sepolia with hardcoded forwarder), tautologies (Lowercased,
  Are20Bytes redundant with hex regex), compile-time struct check.
- trigger_validation_test.go: regex coverage redundant with parser
  table; misleading-name edge cases dropped; 5 genuinely novel cases
  (zero, max uint64, negative, unicode digits, tab) merged into the
  parser table.
- registry_test.go: map round-trip smokes and happy-path nil
  acceptance; all real branches covered by duplicate-panic, sort,
  defensive-copy, error-with-names, CLI-branching tests.

Consolidations:
- Merged health_more_test.go into health_test.go (11 tests total).
- Merged trigger_validation_test.go into trigger_test.go (8 tests
  plus the expanded parser table).

Kept tests exercise real branches and data invariants: ResolveKey
hex/sentinel logic, RegisterCapabilities type assertions, ExecuteTrigger
error paths, CollectCLIInputs filters, experimental/unknown health
labels, unique selectors, valid hex forwarders, chain-selector
resolution, httptest RPC round-trips in GetEVMTriggerLogFromValues,
and registry duplicate-panic / sort / defensive-copy / CLI branching.
The test claimed to cover the triggerData type-assertion branch in
ExecuteTrigger but its setup (empty EVMChains map) always tripped the
earlier nil-chain check first. The errorContainsAny hedge masked the
issue by accepting either error, making the test effectively a
duplicate of TestEVMChainType_ExecuteTrigger_UnknownSelector.
Only call site was wrapping an empty function in
TestGetEVMTriggerLogFromValues_Success; that dead line was dropped
during the trigger test consolidation, leaving the helper unreferenced.
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