The Android and Rust code have previously managed joint custody of the derived data database. With more complex migrations now required, we need to make the Android side read-only. To achieve that, the Android side will remove Room and instead rely on more primitive SQLite APIs for read-only access.
As part of implementing this change, database management throughout the SDK is being refactored.
There will be multiple representations of the data:
- Database representation (and some Entity representations in the places that Room hasn’t been removed yet). These representations are not as type safe and don’t match Kotlin best practices in all cases.
- Once #615 is implemented there will also be network representations
- Type safe models, which often appear in the public API The Database and Network representations will be converted to and from the type safe model representation.
This moves the lightwalletd client code to a separate Gradle module, but does not yet do much clean up the public API (e.g. hiding generated GRPC objects). That will be a followon change via #673
I’ve prototyped a safer version of the API that would be implemented for #673 for two specific calls: obtaining the current block height and obtaining the light wallet info. These were the easiest endpoints to update and they provide a useful exploration for the future changes needed.
This updates our templates to be more consistent with the Secant app repository.
Note that the checklist item for code coverage was removed for now, until we improve the test infrastructure for the SDK.
This also addresses a security reminder, by explicitly stating that one shouldn't run the demo app from a pull request until after reviewing the code changes.
Honza
Carter Jernigan