creating a local testnet with multiple nodes fails using only flags

[hhamud]

Pull Request type

• Closes bug: creating a local testnet with multiple nodes fails using only flags #1468

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• Bugfix

What is the current behavior?

Current behaviour is that genesis configuration hash changes upon each node instance. Therefore it is not possible to build a local testnet with multiple notes using only the cli flags.

I am not sure why the chainspec is not deterministic, could it be the wasm runtime?.

Resolves: #NA

What is the new behavior?

New behaviour is that it is possible to create a local testnet with multiple nodes using only cli flags as it just spits out the chainspec configuration into a json file and uses the same one.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

No

Other information

[apoorvsadana]

interesting, you mean writing it to a JSON file and reading it back makes it work fine? can you debug the differences between in the spec in both the cases, this seems to be a hacky solution for now but its definitely progress and has some insights

[hhamud]

@apoorvsadana @tdelabro can we merge this?

[hhamud]

@tdelabro can you check this?