🗃 Fuel Indexer

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The Fuel indexer is a standalone service that can be used to index various components of the blockchain. These indexable components include blocks, transactions, receipts, and state within a Fuel network, allowing for high-performance read-only access to the blockchain for advanced dApp use-cases.

By using a combination of Fuel-flavored GraphQL schema, a SQL backend, and indices written in Rust, users of the Fuel indexer can get started creating production-ready backends for their dApps, meant to go fast 🚗💨.

Feel free to check out Quickstart for those wanting to build dApp backends right away. And for those willing to contribute to the Fuel indexer project, please feel free to read our contributor guidelines and the For Contributors section of the book.

Architecture

The Fuel indexer is meant to run alongside a Fuel node and a database. Generally, the typical flow of information through the indexer is as follows:

A Sway smart contract emits receipts during its execution on the Fuel node.
Blocks, transactions, and receipts from the node are monitored by the Fuel indexer service and checked for specific user-defined event types.
When a specific event type is found, the indexer executes the corresponding handler from an index module.
The handler processes the event and stores the index information in the database.
A dApp queries for blockchain data by using the indexer's GraphQL API endpoint, which fetches the desired information from the corresponding index in the database and returns it to the user.

`fuelup`

We strongly recommend that you use the Fuel indexer through forc, the Fuel orchestrator. You can get forc (and other Fuel components) by way of fuelup, the Fuel toolchain manager. Install fuelup by running the following command, which downloads and runs the installation script.

curl \
    --proto '=https' \
    --tlsv1.2 -sSf \
    https://fuellabs.github.io/fuelup/fuelup-init.sh | sh

After fuelup has been installed, the forc index command and fuel-indexer binaries will be available on your system.

`fuelup`

curl \
    --proto '=https' \
    --tlsv1.2 -sSf \
    https://fuellabs.github.io/fuelup/fuelup-init.sh | sh

After fuelup has been installed, the forc index command and fuel-indexer binaries will be available on your system.

Database

At this time, the Fuel indexer requires the use of a database. We currently support a single database option: PostgresSQL. PostgreSQL is a database solution with a complex feature set and requires a database server.

PostgreSQL

Note: The following explanation is for demonstration purposes only. A production setup should use secure users, permissions, and passwords.

macOS

On macOS systems, you can install PostgreSQL through Homebrew. If it isn't present on your system, you can install it according to the instructions. Once installed, you can add PostgreSQL to your system by running brew install postgresql. You can then start the service through brew services start postgresql. You'll need to create a database for your index data, which you can do by running createdb [DATABASE_NAME]. You may also need to create the postgres role; you can do so by running createuser -s postgres.

Linux

For Linux-based systems, the installation process is similar. First, you should install PostgreSQL according to your distribution's instructions. Once installed, there should be a new postgres user account; you can switch to that account by running sudo -i -u postgres. After you have switched accounts, you may need to create a postgres database role by running createuser --interactive. You will be asked a few questions; the name of the role should be postgres and you should elect for the new role to be a superuser. Finally, you can create a database by running createdb [DATABASE_NAME].

In either case, your PostgreSQL database should now be accessible at postgres://postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/[DATABASE_NAME].

WASM

Two additonal cargo components will be required to build your indexers: wasm-snip and the wasm32-unknown-unknown target.

As of this writing, there is a small bug in newly built Fuel indexer WASM modules that produces a WASM runtime error due an errant upstream dependency. For now, you can use wasm-snip to remove the errant symbols from the WASM module. An example can be found in the related script here.

`wasm-snip`

To install the wasm-snip:

cargo install wasm-snip

`wasm32` target

To install the wasm32-unknown-unknown target via rustup:

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Docker

If you don't want to install the Fuel indexer or its dependencies directly onto your system, you can use Docker to run it as an isolated container. You can install it by following the install instructions. For reference purposes, we provide a docker compose file that runs a Postgres database and the Fuel indexer service.

Quickstart

In this tutorial you will:

Bootstrap your development environment.
Create, build, and deploy an index to an indexer service hooked up to Fuel's beta-2 testnet.
Query the indexer service for indexed data using GraphQL.

1. Setting up your environment

In this Quickstart, we'll use Docker's Compose to spin up a Fuel indexer service with a PostgreSQL database backend. We will also use Fuel's toolchain manager fuelup in order to install the forc-index binary that we'll use to develop our index.

1.1 Install `fuelup`

To Install fuelup with the default features/options, use the following command, which downloads the fuelup installation script and runs it interactively.

curl \
  --proto '=https' \
  --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://fuellabs.github.io/fuelup/fuelup-init.sh | sh

If you require a non-default fuelup installation, please read the fuelup installation docs.

2. Using the `forc-index` plugin

The primary means of interfacing with the Fuel indexer for index development is the forc-index CLI tool.
forc-index is a forc plugin specifically created to interface with the Fuel indexer service.
Since we already installed fuelup in a previous step [1.1], we should be able to check that our forc-index binary was successfully installed and added to our PATH.

which forc-index

/Users/me/.fuelup/bin/forc-index

IMPORTANT: fuelup will install several binaries from the Fuel ecosystem and add them into your PATH, including the fuel-indexer binary. The fuel-indexer binary is the primary binary that users can use to spin up a Fuel indexer service.

which fuel-indexer

/Users/me/.fuelup/bin/fuel-indexer

2.1 Check for components

Once the forc-index plugin is installed, let's go ahead and see what indexer components we have installed.

Many of these components are required for development work (e.g., fuel-core, psql) but some are even required for non-development usage as well (e.g., wasm-snip, fuelup).

forc index check

+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Status |       Component        |                         Details                         |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | fuel-indexer binary    |  /Users/rashad/.fuelup/bin/fuel-indexer                 |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ⛔️   | fuel-indexer service   |  Failed to detect service at Port(29987).               |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | psql                   |  /usr/local/bin/psql                                    |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | fuel-core              |  /Users/rashad/.fuelup/bin/fuel-core                    |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | docker                 |  /usr/local/bin/docker                                  |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | fuelup                 |  /Users/rashad/.fuelup/bin/fuelup                       |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | wasm-snip              |  /Users/rashad/.cargo/bin/wasm-snip                     |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | forc-postgres          |  /Users/rashad/.fuelup/bin/fuelup                       |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | rustc                  |  /Users/rashad/.cargo/bin/rustc                         |
+--------+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+

2.2 Database setup

To quickly setup and bootstrap the PostgreSQL database that we'll need, we'll use the forc-postgres plugin that is included in fuelup.

IMPORTANT: Ensure that any local PostgreSQL instance that is running on port 5432 is stopped.

forc index postgres create postgres --persistent

Downloading, unpacking, and bootstrapping database.
▹▸▹▹▹ ⏱  Setting up database...

This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

Data page checksums are disabled.

fixing permissions on existing directory /Users/rashad/.fuel/indexer/postgres ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB
selecting default time zone ... America/New_York
creating configuration files ... ok
running bootstrap script ... ok
performing post-bootstrap initialization ... ok
syncing data to disk ... ok

Success. You can now start the database server using:

    /Users/rashad/Library/Caches/pg-embed/darwin/amd64/14.6.0/bin/pg_ctl -D /Users/rashad/.fuel/indexer/postgres -l logfile start
▹▹▸▹▹ ⏱  Setting up database...

💡 Creating database at 'postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres'.(clang-1200.0.32.29), 64-bit
2023-02-10 11:30:45.325 EST [30902] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::1", port 5432
2023-02-10 11:30:45.325 EST [30902] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "127.0.0.1", port 5432
2023-02-10 11:30:45.326 EST [30902] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
2023-02-10 11:30:45.328 EST [30903] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2023-02-10 11:30:45 EST
2023-02-10 11:30:45.331 EST [30902] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
 done
server started
2023-02-10 11:30:45.421 EST [30910] ERROR:  database "postgres" already exists
2023-02-10 11:30:45.421 EST [30910] STATEMENT:  CREATE DATABASE "postgres"
CREATE DATABASE "postgres"; rows affected: 0, rows returned: 0, elapsed: 325.683µs

Default database postgres already exists.


Writing PgEmbedConfig to "/Users/rashad/.fuel/indexer/postgres/postgres-db.json"
▪▪▪▪▪ ⏱  Setting up database...

✅ Successfully created database at 'postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres'.
2023-02-10 11:30:45.424 EST [30902] LOG:  received fast shutdown request
2023-02-10 11:30:45.424 EST [30902] LOG:  aborting any active transactions
2023-02-10 11:30:45.424 EST [30902] LOG:  background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 30909) exited with exit code 1
2023-02-10 11:30:45.424 EST [30904] LOG:  shutting down
2023-02-10 11:30:45.428 EST [30902] LOG:  database system is shut down
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped

Then we can start our database with

forc index postgres start postgres

Using database directory at "/Users/rashad/.fuel/indexer/postgres"

Starting PostgreSQL.

waiting for server to start....2023-02-09 16:11:37.360 EST [86873] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 14.6 on x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0, compiled by Apple clang version 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29), 64-bit
2023-02-09 16:11:37.362 EST [86873] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::1", port 5432
2023-02-09 16:11:37.362 EST [86873] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "127.0.0.1", port 5432
2023-02-09 16:11:37.362 EST [86873] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
2023-02-09 16:11:37.365 EST [86874] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2023-02-09 16:11:25 EST
2023-02-09 16:11:37.368 EST [86873] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
 done
server started
select exists(SELECT 1 from …; rows affected: 0, rows returned: 1, elapsed: 2.860ms

select
  exists(
    SELECT
      1
    from
      pg_database
    WHERE
      datname = $1
  )

✅ Successfully started database at 'postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres'.
2023-02-09 16:11:37.460 EST [86881] LOG:  could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer

You can Ctrl+C to exit the forc index postgres start process, and your database should still be running in the background.

2.3 Creating a new index

Now that we have our development environment set up, the next step is to create an index.

forc index new hello-index --namespace my_project && cd hello-index

The namespace of your project is a required option. You can think of a namespace as your organization name or company name. Your index project might contain one or many indices all under the same namespace.

forc index new hello-index --namespace my_project

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An easy-to-use, flexible indexing service built to go fast. 🚗💨

----

Read the Docs:
- Fuel Indexer: https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-indexer
- Fuel Indexer Book: https://fuellabs.github.io/fuel-indexer/latest
- Sway Book: https://fuellabs.github.io/sway/latest
- Rust SDK Book: https://fuellabs.github.io/fuels-rs/latest

Join the Community:
- Follow us @SwayLang: https://twitter.com/fuellabs_
- Ask questions in dev-chat on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xfpK4Pe

Report Bugs:
- Fuel Indexer Issues: https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-indexer/issues/new

Take a quick tour.
`forc index check`
    List indexer components.
`forc index new`
    Create a new index.
`forc index init`
    Create a new index in an existing directory.
`forc index start`
    Start a local indexer service.
`forc index build`
    Build your index.
`forc index deploy`
    Deploy your index.
`forc index remove`
    Stop a running index.

IMPORTANT: If you want more details on how this index works, checkout our block explorer index example.

2.4 Deploying our index

By now we have a brand new index that will index some blocks and transactions, but now we need to build and deploy it in order to see it in action.

2.4.1 Starting an indexer service

forc index start \
    --fuel-node-host node-beta-2.fuel.network \
    --fuel-node-port 80

2.4.2 Deploying your index to your Fuel indexer service

With our database and Fuel indexer containers up and running, we'll deploy the index that we previously created. If all goes well, you should see the following:

forc index deploy --manifest hello_index.manifest.yaml

▹▹▸▹▹ ⏰ Building...                                                                                         Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.87s
▪▪▪▪▪ ✅ Build succeeded.

Deploying index at hello_index.manifest.yaml to http://127.0.0.1:29987/api/index/my_project/hello_index
▹▸▹▹▹ 🚀 Deploying...
{
  "assets": [
    {
      "digest": "79e74d6a7b68a35aeb9aa2dd7f6083dae5fdba5b6a2f199529b6c49624d1e27b",
      "id": 1,
      "index_id": 1,
      "version": 1
    },
    {
      "digest": "4415628d9ea79b3c3f1e6f02b1af3416c4d0b261b75abe3cc81b77b7902549c5",
      "id": 1,
      "index_id": 1,
      "version": 1
    },
    {
      "digest": "e901eba95ce8b4d1c159c5d66f24276dc911e87dbff55fb2c10d8b371528eacc",
      "id": 1,
      "index_id": 1,
      "version": 1
    }
  ],
  "success": "true"
}
▪▪▪▪▪ ✅ Successfully deployed index.

3. Querying for data

With our index deployed, after a few seconds, we should be able to query for newly indexed data.

Below, we write a simple GraphQL query that simply returns a few fields from all transactions that we've indexed.

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:29987/api/graph/my_project/hello_index \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"query": "query { tx { id hash block }}", "params": "b"}' \
| json_pp

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   364  100   287  100    77   6153   1650 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  9100
[
   {
      "block" : 7017844286925529648,
      "hash" : "fb93ce9519866676813584eca79afe2d98466b3e2c8b787503b76b0b4718a565",
      "id" : 7292230935510476086,
   },
   {
      "block" : 3473793069188998756,
      "hash" : "5ea2577727aaadc331d5ae1ffcbc11ec4c2ba503410f8edfb22fc0a72a1d01eb",
      "id" : 4136050720295695667,
   },
   {
      "block" : 7221293542007912803,
      "hash" : "d2f638c26a313c681d75db2edfbc8081dbf5ecced87a41ec4199d221251b0578",
      "id" : 4049687577184449589,
   },
]

Finished! 🥳

Congrats, you just created, built, and deployed your first index on the world's fastest execution layer. For more detailed info on how the Fuel indexer service works, make sure you read the book.

Starting the Fuel Indexer

Using CLI options

USAGE:
    fuel-indexer run [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -c, --config <CONFIG>
            Indexer service config file.

        --database <DATABASE>
            Database type. [default: postgres] [possible values: postgres]

        --fuel-node-host <FUEL_NODE_HOST>
            Host of the running Fuel node. [default: 127.0.0.1]

        --fuel-node-port <FUEL_NODE_PORT>
            Listening port of the running Fuel node. [default: 4000]

        --graphql-api-host <GRAPHQL_API_HOST>
            GraphQL API host. [default: 127.0.0.1]

        --graphql-api-port <GRAPHQL_API_PORT>
            GraphQL API port. [default: 29987]

    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>
            Log level passed to the Fuel Indexer service. [default: info]
                [possible values: info, debug, error, warn]

    -m, --manifest <MANIFEST>
            Index config file.

        --metrics <metrics>
            Use Prometheus metrics reporting. [default: true]

        --postgres-database <POSTGRES_DATABASE>
            Postgres database.

        --postgres-host <POSTGRES_HOST>
            Postgres host.

        --postgres-password <POSTGRES_PASSWORD>
            Postgres password.

        --postgres-port <POSTGRES_PORT>
            Postgres port.

        --postgres-user <POSTGRES_USER>
            Postgres username.

        --run-migrations <run-migrations>
            Run database migrations before starting service. [default: true]

    -V, --version
            Print version information

Using a configuration file

## The following is an example Fuel indexer configuration file.
##
## This configuration spec is intended to be used for a single instance
## of a Fuel indexer node or service.

## Fuel Node configuration

fuel_node:
    host: 127.0.0.1
    port: 4000

## GraphQL API configuration

graphql_api:
    host: 127.0.0.1
    port: 29987
    run_migrations: false

## Database configuration options.

database:
    postgres:
        user: postgres
        database:
        password:
        host: 127.0.0.1
        port: 5432

metrics: true

Hello World

A "Hello World" type of program for the Fuel Indexer service.

//! A "Hello World" type of program for the Fuel Indexer service.
//!
//! Build this example's WASM module using the following command. Note that a
//! wasm32-unknown-unknown target will be required.
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo build -p hello-index --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
//! ```
//!
//! Start a local test Fuel node
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo run --bin fuel-node
//! ```
//!
//! With your database backend set up, now start your fuel-indexer binary using the
//! assets from this example:
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo run --bin fuel-indexer -- --manifest examples/hello-world/hello_index.manifest.yaml
//! ```
//!
//! Now trigger an event.
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo run --bin hello-bin
//! ```

extern crate alloc;
use fuel_indexer_macros::indexer;
use fuel_indexer_plugin::prelude::*;

#[indexer(manifest = "examples/hello-world/hello_index.manifest.yaml")]
mod hello_world_index {

    fn index_logged_greeting(event: Greeting, block: BlockData) {
        // Since all events require a u64 ID field, let's derive an ID using the
        // name of the person in the Greeting
        let greeter_name = trim_sized_ascii_string(&event.person.name);
        let greeting = trim_sized_ascii_string(&event.greeting);
        let greeter_id = first8_bytes_to_u64(&greeter_name);

        // Here we 'get or create' a Salutation based on the ID of the event
        // emitted in the LogData receipt of our smart contract
        let greeting = match Salutation::load(event.id) {
            Some(mut g) => {
                // If we found an event, let's use block height as a proxy for time
                g.last_seen = block.height;
                g
            }
            None => {
                // If we did not already have this Saluation stored in the database. Here we
                // show how you can use the Charfield type to store strings with length <= 255
                let message = format!("{} 👋, my name is {}", &greeting, &greeter_name);

                Salutation {
                    id: event.id,
                    message_hash: first32_bytes_to_bytes32(&message),
                    message,
                    greeter: greeter_id,
                    first_seen: block.height,
                    last_seen: block.height,
                }
            }
        };

        // Here we do the same with Greeter that we did for Saluation -- if we have an event
        // already saved in the database, load it and update it. If we do not have this Greeter
        // in the database then create one
        let greeter = match Greeter::load(greeter_id) {
            Some(mut g) => {
                g.last_seen = block.height;
                g
            }
            None => Greeter {
                id: greeter_id,
                first_seen: block.height,
                name: greeter_name,
                last_seen: block.height,
            },
        };

        // Both entity saves will occur in the same transaction
        greeting.save();
        greeter.save();
    }
}

Block Explorer

A rudimentary block explorer backend implementation demonstrating how to leverage basic Fuel indexer abstractions in order to build a cool dApp backend.

//! A rudimentary block explorer implementation demonstrating how blocks, transactions,
//! contracts, and accounts can be persisted into the database.
//!
//! Build this example's WASM module using the following command. Note that a
//! wasm32-unknown-unknown target will be required.
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo build -p explorer-index --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
//! ```
//!
//! Use the fuel-indexer testing components to start your Fuel node and web API
//!
//! ```bash
//! bash scripts/utils/start_test_components.bash
//! ```
//!
//! With your database backend set up, now start your fuel-indexer binary using the
//! assets from this example:
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo run --bin fuel-indexer -- --manifest examples/block-explorer/manifest.yaml
//! ```

extern crate alloc;
use fuel_indexer_macros::indexer;
use fuel_indexer_plugin::prelude::*;
use std::collections::HashSet;

// We'll pass our manifest to our #[indexer] attribute. This manifest contains
// all of the relevant configuration parameters in regard to how our index will
// work. In the fuel-indexer repository, we use relative paths (starting from the
// fuel-indexer root) but if you're building an index outside of the fuel-indexer
// project you'll want to use full/absolute paths.
#[indexer(manifest = "examples/block-explorer/explorer_index.manifest.yaml")]
mod explorer_index {

    // When specifying args to your handler functions, you can either use types defined
    // in your ABI JSON file, or you can use native Fuel types. These native Fuel types
    // include various `Receipt`s, as well as more comprehensive data, in the form of
    // blocks `BlockData` and transactions `TransactionData`. A list of native Fuel
    // types can be found at:
    //
    //  https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-indexer/blob/master/fuel-indexer-schema/src/types/fuel.rs#L28
    fn index_explorer_data(block_data: BlockData) {
        let mut block_gas_limit = 0;

        // Convert the deserialized block `BlockData` struct that we get from our Fuel node, into
        // a block entity `Block` that we can persist to the database. The `Block` type below is
        // defined in our schema/explorer.graphql and represents the type that we will
        // save to our database.
        //
        // Note: There is no miner/producer address for blocks in this example; the producer field
        // was removed from the `Block` struct as part of fuel-core v0.12.
        let block = Block {
            id: block_data.id,
            height: block_data.height,
            timestamp: block_data.time,
            gas_limit: block_gas_limit,
        };

        // Now that we've created the object for the database, let's save it.
        block.save();

        // Keep track of some Receipt data involved in this transaction.
        let mut accounts = HashSet::new();
        let mut contracts = HashSet::new();

        for tx in block_data.transactions.iter() {
            let mut tx_amount = 0;
            let mut tokens_transferred = Vec::new();

            // `Transaction::Script`, `Transaction::Create`, and `Transaction::Mint`
            // are unused but demonstrate properties like gas, inputs,
            // outputs, script_data, and other pieces of metadata. You can access
            // properties that have the corresponding transaction `Field` traits
            // implemented; examples below.
            match &tx.transaction {
                #[allow(unused)]
                Transaction::Script(t) => {
                    Logger::info("Inside a script transaction. (>^‿^)>");

                    let gas_limit = t.gas_limit();
                    let gas_price = t.gas_price();
                    let maturity = t.maturity();
                    let script = t.script();
                    let script_data = t.script_data();
                    let receipts_root = t.receipts_root();
                    let inputs = t.inputs();
                    let outputs = t.outputs();
                    let witnesses = t.witnesses();

                    let json = &tx.transaction.to_json();
                    block_gas_limit += gas_limit;
                }
                #[allow(unused)]
                Transaction::Create(t) => {
                    Logger::info("Inside a create transaction. <(^.^)>");

                    let gas_limit = t.gas_limit();
                    let gas_price = t.gas_price();
                    let maturity = t.maturity();
                    let salt = t.salt();
                    let bytecode_length = t.bytecode_length();
                    let bytecode_witness_index = t.bytecode_witness_index();
                    let inputs = t.inputs();
                    let outputs = t.outputs();
                    let witnesses = t.witnesses();
                    let storage_slots = t.storage_slots();
                    block_gas_limit += gas_limit;
                }
                #[allow(unused)]
                Transaction::Mint(t) => {
                    Logger::info("Inside a mint transaction. <(^‿^<)");

                    let tx_pointer = t.tx_pointer();
                    let outputs = t.outputs();
                }
            }

            for receipt in &tx.receipts {
                // You can handle each receipt in a transaction `TransactionData` as you like.
                //
                // Below demonstrates how you can use parts of a receipt `Receipt` in order
                // to persist entities defined in your GraphQL schema, to the database.
                match receipt {
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::Call { id, .. } => {
                        contracts.insert(Contract {
                            id: *id,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });
                    }
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::ReturnData { id, .. } => {
                        contracts.insert(Contract {
                            id: *id,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });
                    }
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::Transfer {
                        id,
                        to,
                        asset_id,
                        amount,
                        ..
                    } => {
                        contracts.insert(Contract {
                            id: *id,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });

                        let transfer = Transfer {
                            id: bytes32_from_inputs(
                                id,
                                [id.to_vec(), to.to_vec(), asset_id.to_vec()].concat(),
                            ),
                            contract_id: *id,
                            receiver: *to,
                            amount: *amount,
                            asset_id: *asset_id,
                        };

                        transfer.save();
                        tokens_transferred.push(asset_id.to_string());
                    }
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::TransferOut {
                        id,
                        to,
                        amount,
                        asset_id,
                        ..
                    } => {
                        contracts.insert(Contract {
                            id: *id,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });

                        accounts.insert(Account {
                            id: *to,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });

                        tx_amount += amount;
                        let transfer_out = TransferOut {
                            id: bytes32_from_inputs(
                                id,
                                [id.to_vec(), to.to_vec(), asset_id.to_vec()].concat(),
                            ),
                            contract_id: *id,
                            receiver: *to,
                            amount: *amount,
                            asset_id: *asset_id,
                        };

                        transfer_out.save();
                    }
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::Log { id, rb, .. } => {
                        contracts.insert(Contract {
                            id: *id,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });
                        let log = Log {
                            id: bytes32_from_inputs(id, u64::to_le_bytes(*rb).to_vec()),
                            contract_id: *id,
                            rb: *rb,
                        };

                        log.save();
                    }
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::LogData { id, .. } => {
                        contracts.insert(Contract {
                            id: *id,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });

                        Logger::info("LogData types are unused in this example. (>'')>");
                    }
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::ScriptResult { result, gas_used } => {
                        let result: u64 = match result {
                            ScriptExecutionResult::Success => 1,
                            ScriptExecutionResult::Revert => 2,
                            ScriptExecutionResult::Panic => 3,
                            ScriptExecutionResult::GenericFailure(_) => 4,
                        };
                        let r = ScriptResult {
                            id: bytes32_from_inputs(
                                &[0u8; 32],
                                u64::to_be_bytes(result).to_vec(),
                            ),
                            result,
                            gas_used: *gas_used,
                        };
                        r.save();
                    }
                    #[allow(unused)]
                    Receipt::MessageOut {
                        sender,
                        recipient,
                        amount,
                        ..
                    } => {
                        tx_amount += amount;
                        accounts.insert(Account {
                            id: *sender,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });
                        accounts.insert(Account {
                            id: *recipient,
                            last_seen: 0,
                        });

                        Logger::info("LogData types are unused in this example. (>'')>");
                    }
                    _ => {
                        Logger::info("This type is not handled yet.");
                    }
                }
            }

            // Persist the transaction to the database via the `Tx` object defined in the GraphQL schema.
            let tx_entity = Tx {
                block: block.id,
                timestamp: block.timestamp,
                id: tx.id,
                value: tx_amount,
                status: tx.status.clone().into(),
                tokens_transferred: Json(
                    serde_json::to_value(tokens_transferred)
                        .unwrap()
                        .to_string(),
                ),
            };

            tx_entity.save();
        }

        // Save all of our accounts
        for account in accounts.iter() {
            account.save();
        }

        // Save all of our contracts
        for contract in contracts.iter() {
            contract.save();
        }
    }
}

Once blocks have been added to the database by the indexer, you can query for them by using a query similar to the following:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:29987/api/graph/fuel_examples \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"query": "query { block { id height timestamp }}", "params": "b"}' \
| json_pp

[
   {
      "height" : 1,
      "id" : "f169a30cfcbf1eebd97a07b19de98e4b38a4367b03d1819943be41744339d38a",
      "timestamp" : 1668710162
   },
   {
      "height" : 2,
      "id" : "a8c554758f78fe73054405d38099f5ad21a90c05206b5c6137424985c8fd10c7",
      "timestamp" : 1668710163
   },
   {
      "height" : 3,
      "id" : "850ab156ddd9ac9502768f779936710fd3d792e9ea79bc0e4082de96450b5174",
      "timestamp" : 1668710312
   },
   {
      "height" : 4,
      "id" : "19e19807c6988164b916a6877fe049d403d55a07324fa883cb7fa5cdb33438e2",
      "timestamp" : 1668710313
   },
   {
      "height" : 5,
      "id" : "363af43cfd2a6d8af166ee46c15276b24b130fc6a89ce7b3c8737d29d6d0e1bb",
      "timestamp" : 1668710314
   }
]

Blocks and Transactions

You can index use the BlockData and TransactionData data structures to index important information about the Fuel network for your dApp.

`BlockData`

pub struct BlockData {
    pub height: u64,
    pub id: Bytes32,
    pub producer: Option<Bytes32>,
    pub time: i64,
    pub transactions: Vec<TransactionData>,
}

The BlockData struct is how blocks are represented in the Fuel indexer. It contains metadata such as the ID, height, and time, as well as a list of the transactions it contains (represented by TransactionData). It also contains the public key hash of the block producer, if present.

`TransactionData`

pub struct TransactionData {
    pub transaction: Transaction,
    pub status: TransactionStatus,
    pub receipts: Vec<Receipt>,
    pub id: TxId,
}

The TransactionData struct contains important information about a transaction in the Fuel network. The id field is the transaction hash, which is a 32-byte string. The receipts field contains a list of Receipts, which are generated by a Fuel node during the execution of a Sway smart contract; you can find more information in the Receipts section.

`Transaction`

pub enum Transaction {
    Script(Script),
    Create(Create),
    Mint(Mint),
}

Transaction refers to the Fuel transaction entity and can be one of three distinct types: Script, Create, or Mint. Explaining the differences between each of the types is out of scope for the Fuel indexer; however, you can find information about the Transaction type in the Fuel specifications.

enum TransactionType : uint8 {
    Script = 0,
    Create = 1,
    Mint = 2,
}

name	type	description
`type`	TransactionType	Transaction type.
`data`	One of TransactionScript, TransactionCreate, or TransactionMint	Transaction data.

Transaction is invalid if:

type > TransactionType.Create
gasLimit > MAX_GAS_PER_TX
blockheight() < maturity
inputsCount > MAX_INPUTS
outputsCount > MAX_OUTPUTS
witnessesCount > MAX_WITNESSES
No inputs are of type InputType.Coin or InputType.Message
More than one output is of type OutputType.Change for any asset ID in the input set
Any output is of type OutputType.Change for any asset ID not in the input set
More than one input of type InputType.Coin for any Coin ID in the input set
More than one input of type InputType.Contract for any Contract ID in the input set
More than one input of type InputType.Message for any Message ID in the input set

When serializing a transaction, fields are serialized as follows (with inner structs serialized recursively):

uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64: big-endian right-aligned to 8 bytes.
byte[32]: as-is.
byte[]: as-is, with padding zeroes aligned to 8 bytes.

When deserializing a transaction, the reverse is done. If there are insufficient bytes or too many bytes, the transaction is invalid.

TransactionScript

enum ReceiptType : uint8 {
    Call = 0,
    Return = 1,
    ReturnData = 2,
    Panic = 3,
    Revert = 4,
    Log = 5,
    LogData = 6,
    Transfer = 7,
    TransferOut = 8,
    ScriptResult = 9,
    MessageOut = 10,
}

name	type	description
`gasPrice`	`uint64`	Gas price for transaction.
`gasLimit`	`uint64`	Gas limit for transaction.
`maturity`	`uint32`	Block until which tx cannot be included.
`scriptLength`	`uint16`	Script length, in instructions.
`scriptDataLength`	`uint16`	Length of script input data, in bytes.
`inputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of inputs.
`outputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of outputs.
`witnessesCount`	`uint8`	Number of witnesses.
`receiptsRoot`	`byte[32]`	Merkle root of receipts.
`script`	`byte[]`	Script to execute.
`scriptData`	`byte[]`	Script input data (parameters).
`inputs`	Input`[]`	List of inputs.
`outputs`	Output`[]`	List of outputs.
`witnesses`	Witness`[]`	List of witnesses.

Given helper len() that returns the number of bytes of a field.

Transaction is invalid if:

Any output is of type OutputType.ContractCreated
scriptLength > MAX_SCRIPT_LENGTH
scriptDataLength > MAX_SCRIPT_DATA_LENGTH
scriptLength * 4 != len(script)
scriptDataLength != len(scriptData)

IMPORTANT:

When signing a transaction, receiptsRoot is set to zero.

When verifying a predicate, receiptsRoot is initialized to zero.

When executing a script, receiptsRoot is initialized to zero.

The receipts root receiptsRoot is the root of the binary Merkle tree of receipts. If there are no receipts, its value is set to the root of the empty tree, i.e. 0xe3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855.

TransactionCreate

name	type	description
`gasPrice`	`uint64`	Gas price for transaction.
`gasLimit`	`uint64`	Gas limit for transaction.
`maturity`	`uint32`	Block until which tx cannot be included.
`bytecodeLength`	`uint16`	Contract bytecode length, in instructions.
`bytecodeWitnessIndex`	`uint8`	Witness index of contract bytecode to create.
`storageSlotsCount`	`uint16`	Number of storage slots to initialize.
`inputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of inputs.
`outputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of outputs.
`witnessesCount`	`uint8`	Number of witnesses.
`salt`	`byte[32]`	Salt.
`storageSlots`	`(byte[32], byte[32]])[]`	List of storage slots to initialize (key, value).
`inputs`	Input`[]`	List of inputs.
`outputs`	Output`[]`	List of outputs.
`witnesses`	Witness`[]`	List of witnesses.

Transaction is invalid if:

Any input is of type InputType.Contract
Any output is of type OutputType.Contract or OutputType.Variable
More than one output is of type OutputType.Change with asset_id of zero
Any output is of type OutputType.Change with non-zero asset_id
It does not have exactly one output of type OutputType.ContractCreated
bytecodeLength * 4 > CONTRACT_MAX_SIZE
tx.data.witnesses[bytecodeWitnessIndex].dataLength != bytecodeLength * 4
bytecodeWitnessIndex >= tx.witnessesCount
The keys of storageSlots are not in ascending lexicographic order
The computed contract ID (see below) is not equal to the contractID of the one OutputType.ContractCreated output
storageSlotsCount > MAX_STORAGE_SLOTS
The Sparse Merkle tree root of storageSlots is not equal to the stateRoot of the one OutputType.ContractCreated output

Creates a contract with contract ID as computed here.

TransactionMint

The transaction is created by the block producer and is not signed. Since it is not usable outside of block creation or execution, all fields must be fully set upon creation without any zeroing.

name	type	description
`txPointer`	TXPointer	The location of the `Mint` transaction in the block.
`outputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of outputs.
`outputs`	Output`[]`	List of outputs.

Transaction is invalid if:

Any output is not of type OutputType.Coin
Any two outputs have the same asset_id
txPointer is zero or doesn't match the block.

`TransactionStatus`

pub enum TransactionStatus {
    Failure {
        block_id: String,
        time: DateTime<Utc>,
        reason: String,
    },
    SqueezedOut {
        reason: String,
    },
    Submitted {
        submitted_at: DateTime<Utc>,
    },
    Success {
        block_id: String,
        time: DateTime<Utc>,
    },
}

TransactionStatus refers to the status of a Transaction in the Fuel network.

Blocks and Transactions

You can index use the BlockData and TransactionData data structures to index important information about the Fuel network for your dApp.

`BlockData`

pub struct BlockData {
    pub height: u64,
    pub id: Bytes32,
    pub producer: Option<Bytes32>,
    pub time: i64,
    pub transactions: Vec<TransactionData>,
}

`TransactionData`

pub struct TransactionData {
    pub transaction: Transaction,
    pub status: TransactionStatus,
    pub receipts: Vec<Receipt>,
    pub id: TxId,
}

`Transaction`

pub enum Transaction {
    Script(Script),
    Create(Create),
    Mint(Mint),
}

enum TransactionType : uint8 {
    Script = 0,
    Create = 1,
    Mint = 2,
}

name	type	description
`type`	TransactionType	Transaction type.
`data`	One of TransactionScript, TransactionCreate, or TransactionMint	Transaction data.

Transaction is invalid if:

type > TransactionType.Create
gasLimit > MAX_GAS_PER_TX
blockheight() < maturity
inputsCount > MAX_INPUTS
outputsCount > MAX_OUTPUTS
witnessesCount > MAX_WITNESSES
No inputs are of type InputType.Coin or InputType.Message
More than one output is of type OutputType.Change for any asset ID in the input set
Any output is of type OutputType.Change for any asset ID not in the input set
More than one input of type InputType.Coin for any Coin ID in the input set
More than one input of type InputType.Contract for any Contract ID in the input set
More than one input of type InputType.Message for any Message ID in the input set

When serializing a transaction, fields are serialized as follows (with inner structs serialized recursively):

uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64: big-endian right-aligned to 8 bytes.
byte[32]: as-is.
byte[]: as-is, with padding zeroes aligned to 8 bytes.

When deserializing a transaction, the reverse is done. If there are insufficient bytes or too many bytes, the transaction is invalid.

TransactionScript

enum ReceiptType : uint8 {
    Call = 0,
    Return = 1,
    ReturnData = 2,
    Panic = 3,
    Revert = 4,
    Log = 5,
    LogData = 6,
    Transfer = 7,
    TransferOut = 8,
    ScriptResult = 9,
    MessageOut = 10,
}

name	type	description
`gasPrice`	`uint64`	Gas price for transaction.
`gasLimit`	`uint64`	Gas limit for transaction.
`maturity`	`uint32`	Block until which tx cannot be included.
`scriptLength`	`uint16`	Script length, in instructions.
`scriptDataLength`	`uint16`	Length of script input data, in bytes.
`inputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of inputs.
`outputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of outputs.
`witnessesCount`	`uint8`	Number of witnesses.
`receiptsRoot`	`byte[32]`	Merkle root of receipts.
`script`	`byte[]`	Script to execute.
`scriptData`	`byte[]`	Script input data (parameters).
`inputs`	Input`[]`	List of inputs.
`outputs`	Output`[]`	List of outputs.
`witnesses`	Witness`[]`	List of witnesses.

Given helper len() that returns the number of bytes of a field.

Transaction is invalid if:

Any output is of type OutputType.ContractCreated
scriptLength > MAX_SCRIPT_LENGTH
scriptDataLength > MAX_SCRIPT_DATA_LENGTH
scriptLength * 4 != len(script)
scriptDataLength != len(scriptData)

IMPORTANT:

When signing a transaction, receiptsRoot is set to zero.

When verifying a predicate, receiptsRoot is initialized to zero.

When executing a script, receiptsRoot is initialized to zero.

TransactionCreate

name	type	description
`gasPrice`	`uint64`	Gas price for transaction.
`gasLimit`	`uint64`	Gas limit for transaction.
`maturity`	`uint32`	Block until which tx cannot be included.
`bytecodeLength`	`uint16`	Contract bytecode length, in instructions.
`bytecodeWitnessIndex`	`uint8`	Witness index of contract bytecode to create.
`storageSlotsCount`	`uint16`	Number of storage slots to initialize.
`inputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of inputs.
`outputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of outputs.
`witnessesCount`	`uint8`	Number of witnesses.
`salt`	`byte[32]`	Salt.
`storageSlots`	`(byte[32], byte[32]])[]`	List of storage slots to initialize (key, value).
`inputs`	Input`[]`	List of inputs.
`outputs`	Output`[]`	List of outputs.
`witnesses`	Witness`[]`	List of witnesses.

Transaction is invalid if:

Any input is of type InputType.Contract
Any output is of type OutputType.Contract or OutputType.Variable
More than one output is of type OutputType.Change with asset_id of zero
Any output is of type OutputType.Change with non-zero asset_id
It does not have exactly one output of type OutputType.ContractCreated
bytecodeLength * 4 > CONTRACT_MAX_SIZE
tx.data.witnesses[bytecodeWitnessIndex].dataLength != bytecodeLength * 4
bytecodeWitnessIndex >= tx.witnessesCount
The keys of storageSlots are not in ascending lexicographic order
The computed contract ID (see below) is not equal to the contractID of the one OutputType.ContractCreated output
storageSlotsCount > MAX_STORAGE_SLOTS
The Sparse Merkle tree root of storageSlots is not equal to the stateRoot of the one OutputType.ContractCreated output

Creates a contract with contract ID as computed here.

TransactionMint

The transaction is created by the block producer and is not signed. Since it is not usable outside of block creation or execution, all fields must be fully set upon creation without any zeroing.

name	type	description
`txPointer`	TXPointer	The location of the `Mint` transaction in the block.
`outputsCount`	`uint8`	Number of outputs.
`outputs`	Output`[]`	List of outputs.

Transaction is invalid if:

Any output is not of type OutputType.Coin
Any two outputs have the same asset_id
txPointer is zero or doesn't match the block.

`TransactionStatus`

pub enum TransactionStatus {
    Failure {
        block_id: String,
        time: DateTime<Utc>,
        reason: String,
    },
    SqueezedOut {
        reason: String,
    },
    Submitted {
        submitted_at: DateTime<Utc>,
    },
    Success {
        block_id: String,
        time: DateTime<Utc>,
    },
}

TransactionStatus refers to the status of a Transaction in the Fuel network.

Call

use fuel_types::ContractId;
pub struct Call {
    id: ContractId,
    param1: u64,
}

A Call receipt is generated whenever a function is called in a Sway contract.
The param1 field holds the function selector value as a hexadecimal.
Read more about Call in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

Call

use fuel_types::ContractId;
pub struct Call {
    id: ContractId,
    param1: u64,
}

A Call receipt is generated whenever a function is called in a Sway contract.
The param1 field holds the function selector value as a hexadecimal.
Read more about Call in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

Log

use fuel_types::ContractId;
pub struct Log {
    pub contract_id: ContractId,
    pub ra: u64,
    pub rb: u64,
}

A Log receipt is generated when calling log() on a non-reference types in a Sway contracts.
- Specifically bool, u8, u16, u32, and u64.
The ra field includes the value being logged while rb may include a non-zero value representing a unique ID for the log instance.
Read more about Log in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

LogData

use fuel_types::ContractId;
pub struct LogData {
    pub contract_id: ContractId,
    pub data: Vec<u8>,
    pub rb: u64,
    pub len: u64,
    pub ptr: u64,
}

A LogData receipt is generated when calling log() in a Sway contract on a reference type; this includes all types except non-reference types.
The data field will include the logged value as a hexadecimal.
- The rb field will contain a unique ID that can be used to look up the logged data type.
Read more about LogData in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

MessageOut

use fuel_types::{MessageId, Bytes32, Address};
pub struct MessageOut {
    pub message_id: MessageId,
    pub sender: Address,
    pub recipient: Address,
    pub amount: u64,
    pub nonce: Bytes32,
    pub len: u64,
    pub digest: Bytes32,
    pub data: Vec<u8>,
}

A MessageOut receipt is generated as a result of the send_message() Sway method in which a message is sent to a recipient address along with a certain amount of coins.
The data field currently supports only a vector of non-reference types rather than something like a struct.
Read more about MessageOut in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

Return

use fuel_types::ContractId;
pub struct Return {
    pub contract_id: ContractId,
    pub val: u64,
    pub pc: u64,
    pub is: u64,
}

A Return receipt is generated when returning a non-reference type in a Sway contract.
- Specifically bool, u8, u16, u32, and u64.
The val field includes the value being returned.
Read more about Log in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

ReturnData

use fuel_types::ContractId;
pub struct ReturnData {
    id: ContractId,
    data: Vec<u8>,
}

A ReturnData receipt is generated when returning a reference type in a Sway contract; this includes all types except non-reference types.
The data field will include the returned value as a hexadecimal.
Read more about ReturnData in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

Transfer

use fuel_types::{ContractId, AssetId};
pub struct Transfer {
    pub contract_id: ContractId,
    pub to: ContractId,
    pub amount: u64,
    pub asset_id: AssetId,
    pub pc: u64,
    pub is: u64,
}

A Transfer receipt is generated when coins are transferred to a contract as part of a Sway contract.
The asset_id field contains the asset ID of the transferred coins, as the FuelVM has built-in support for working with multiple assets.
- The pc and is fields aren't currently used for anything, but are included for completeness.
Read more about Transfer in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

TransferOut

use fuel_types::{ContractId, AssetId, Address};
pub struct TransferOut {
    pub contract_id: ContractId,
    pub to: Address,
    pub amount: u64,
    pub asset_id: AssetId,
    pub pc: u64,
    pub is: u64,
}

A TransferOut receipt is generated when coins are transferred to an address rather than a contract.
Every other field of the receipt works the same way as it does in the Transfer receipt.
Read more about TransferOut in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

ScriptResult

pub struct ScriptResult {
    pub result: u64,
    pub gas_used: u64,
}

A ScriptResult receipt is generated when a contract call resolves; that is, it's generated as a result of the RET, RETD, and RVRT instructions.
The result field will contain a 0 for success, and a non-zero value otherwise.
Read more about ScriptResult in the Fuel protocol ABI spec

A Fuel Indexer Project

Use Cases

The Fuel indexer project can currently be used in a number of different ways:

as tooling to compile arbitrary indicies
as a standalone service
as a part of a Fuel project, alongside other components of the Fuel ecosystem (e.g. Sway)

We'll describe these three different implementations below.

As tooling for compiling indices

The Fuel indexer provides functionality to make it easy to build and compile abitrary indices by using forc index. For info on how to use indexer tooling to compile arbitrary indices, check out our Quickstart; additionally, you can read through our examples for a more in-depth exploration of how to compile indices.

As a standalone service

You can also start the Fuel indexer as a standalone binary that connects to a Fuel node to monitor the Fuel blockchain for new blocks and transactions. To do so, run the requisite database migrations, adjust the configuration to connect to a Fuel node, and start the service.

As part of a Fuel project

Finally, you can run the Fuel indexer as part of a project that uses other components of the Fuel ecosystem, such as Sway. The convention for a Fuel project layout including an indexer is as follows:

.
├── contracts
│   └── hello-contract
│       ├── Forc.toml
│       └── src
│           └── main.sw
├── frontend
│   └── index.html
└── indexer
    └── hello-index
        ├── Cargo.toml
        ├── hello_index.manifest.yaml
        ├── schema
        │   └── hello_index.schema.graphql
        └── src
            └── lib.rs

An Indexer Project at a Glance

Every Fuel indexer project requires three components:

a Manifest describing index metadata
a Schema containing models for the data you want to index
an Execution Module which houses the logic for creating the aforementioned data models

Manifest

A manifest serves as the YAML configuration file for a given index. A proper manifest has the following structure:

namespace: fuel
identifier: index1
abi: path/to/my/contract-abi.json
contract_id: "0x39150017c9e38e5e280432d546fae345d6ce6d8fe4710162c2e3a95a6faff051"
graphql_schema: path/to/my/schema.graphql
start_block: 1564
module:
  wasm: path/to/my/wasm_module.wasm
report_metrics: true

`namespace`

Think of the namespace as an organization identifier. If you're familiar with say, Java package naming, then think of an index's namespace as being its domain name. The namespace is unique to a given index operator -- i.e., index operators will not be able to support more than one namespace of the same name.

`identifier`

The identifier field is used to (quite literally) identify the given index. If namespace is the organization/domain name, then think of identifier as the name of an index within that organization/domain.
As an example, if a provided namespace is "fuel" and a provided identifier is "index1", then the unique identifier for the given index will be fuel.index1.

`abi`

The abi option is used to provide a link to the Sway JSON application binary interface (JSON ABI) that is generated when you build your Sway project. This generated ABI contains all types, type IDs, and logged types used in your Sway contract.

`contract_id`

The contract_id specifies which particular contract you would like your index to subscribe to.

`graphql_schema`

The graphql_schema field contains the file path that points to the GraphQL schema for the given index. This schema file holds the structures of the data that will eventually reside in your database. You can read more about the format of the schema file here.

Important: The objects defined in your GraphQL schema are called 'entities'. These entities are what will be eventually be stored in the database.

`start_block`

The particular start block after which you'd like your indexer to start indexing events.

`module`

The module field contains a file path that points to code that will be run as an executor inside of the indexer.
There are two available options for modules/execution: wasm and native.
- When specifying a wasm module, the provided path must lead to a compiled WASM binary.

Important: At this time, wasm is the preferred method of execution.

`report_metrics`

Whether or not to report Prometheus metrics to the Fuel backend

GraphQL Schema

The GraphQL schema is a required component of the Fuel indexer. When data is indexed into the database, the actual values that are persisted to the database will be values created using the data structures defined in the schema.

In its most basic form, a Fuel indexer GraphQL schema should have a schema definition that contains a defined query root. The rest of the implementation is up to you. Here's an example of a well-formed schema:

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    thing1: FirstThing
    thing2: SecondThing
}

type FirstThing {
    id: ID!
    value: UInt8!
}

type SecondThing {
    id: ID!
    other_value: UInt8!
    timestamp: Timestamp!
}

The types you see above (e.g., ID, UInt8, etc) are Fuel abstractions that were created to more seamlessly integrate with the Fuel VM and are not native to GraphQL. A deeper explanation on these types can be found in the Types section.

Important: It is up to developers to manage their own unique IDs for each type, meaning that a data structure's ID field needs to be manually generated prior to saving it to the database. This generation can be as simple or complex as you want in order to fit your particular situation; the only requirement is that the developer implement their own custom generation. Examples can be found in the Block Explorer and Hello World sections.

WASM Modules

WebAssembly (WASM) modules are compiled binaries that are registered into a Fuel indexer at runtime. The WASM bytes are read in by the indexer and executors are created which will implement blocking calls the to the WASM runtime.

Usage

To compile your index code to WASM, you'll first need to install the wasm32-unknown-unknown target platform through rustup, if you haven't done so already.

rustup add target wasm32-unknown-unknown

After that, you would compile your index code by navigating to the root folder for your index code and build. An example of this can be found below:

cd /my/index-lib && cargo build --release

Notes on WASM

There are a few points that Fuel indexer users should know when using WASM:

WASM modules are only used if the execution mode specified in your manifest file is wasm.
Developers should be aware of what things may not work off-the-shelf in a module: file I/O, thread spawning, and anything that depends on system libraries. This is due to the technological limitations of WASM as a whole; more information can be found here.
As of this writing, there is a small bug in newly built Fuel indexer WASM modules that produces a WASM runtime error due to an errant upstream dependency. For now, a quick workaround requires the use of wasm-snip to remove the errant symbols from the WASM module. More info can be found in the related script here.
Users on Apple Silicon macOS systems may experience trouble when trying to build WASM modules due to its clang binary not supporting WASM targets. If encountered, you can install a binary with better support from Homebrew (brew install llvm) and instruct rustc to leverage it by setting the following environment variables:

AR=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/llvm-ar
CC=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/clang

Types

Below is a mapping of GraphQL schema types to their database equivalents.

Sway Type	GraphQL Schema Type	Postgres Type
u64	ID	bigint primary key
b256	Address	varchar(64)
str[4]	Bytes4	varchar(16)
str[8]	Bytes8	varchar(64)
str[32]	Bytes32	varchar(64)
str[32]	AssetId	varchar(64)
b256	ContractId	varchar(64)
str[32]	Salt	varchar(64)
u32	UInt4	integer
u64	UInt8	bigint
i64	Timestamp	timestamp
str[]	Blob	bytes
str[32]	MessageId	varchar(64)
bool	Boolean	bool
	Json	json
	Charfield	varchar(255)
	Blob	varchar(10485760)

Example

Let's define an Event struct in a Sway contract:

struct Event {
    id: u64,
    address: Address,
    block_height: u64,
}

The corresponding GraphQL schema to mirror this Event struct would resemble:

type Event {
    id: ID!
    account: Address!
    block_height: UInt8!
}

And finally, this GraphQL schema will generate the following Postgres schema:

                                           Table "schema.event"
    Column   |     Type    | Collation | Nullable | Default | Storage  | Compression | Stats target | Description
--------------+-------------+-----------+----------+---------+----------+-------------+--------------+-------------
 id           |    bigint   |           | not null |         | plain        |             |              |
 block_height |    bigint   |           | not null |         | plain    |             |              |
 address      | varchar(64) |           | not null |         | plain    |             |              |
 object       |    bytea    |           | not null |         | extended |             |              |
Indexes:
    "event_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
Access method: heap

GraphQL Schema

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    thing1: FirstThing
    thing2: SecondThing
}

type FirstThing {
    id: ID!
    value: UInt8!
}

type SecondThing {
    id: ID!
    other_value: UInt8!
    timestamp: Timestamp!
}

Important: It is up to developers to manage their own unique IDs for each type, meaning that a data structure's ID field needs to be manually generated prior to saving it to the database. This generation can be as simple or complex as you want in order to fit your particular situation; the only requirement is that the developer implement their own custom generation. Examples can be found in the Block Explorer and Hello World sections.

GraphQL Schema

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    thing1: FirstThing
    thing2: SecondThing
}

type FirstThing {
    id: ID!
    value: UInt8!
}

type SecondThing {
    id: ID!
    other_value: UInt8!
    timestamp: Timestamp!
}

Important: It is up to developers to manage their own unique IDs for each type, meaning that a data structure's ID field needs to be manually generated prior to saving it to the database. This generation can be as simple or complex as you want in order to fit your particular situation; the only requirement is that the developer implement their own custom generation. Examples can be found in the Block Explorer and Hello World sections.

Directives

Per GraphQL: A directive is an identifier preceded by a @ character, optionally followed by a list of named arguments, which can appear after almost any form of syntax in the GraphQL query or schema languages.

As of this writing, the list of supported Fuel GraphQL schema directives includes:
- @indexed
- @unique
- @join

Using our Library and Book example from the previous Foreign Keys section -- given the following schema:

`@indexed`

The @indexed directive adds an index to the underlying database column for the indicated field of that type. Generally, an index is a data structure that allows you to quickly locate data without having to search each row in a database table.

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    book: Book
    library: Library
}

type Book {
    id: ID!
    name: Bytes8! @indexed
}

type Library {
    id: ID!
    book: Book!
}

In this example, a single BTREE INDEX constraint will be created on the book table's name column, which allows for faster lookups on that field.

Important: At the moment, index constraint support is limited to BTREE in Postgres with ON DELETE, and ON UPDATE actions not being supported.

`@unique`

The @unique directive adds a UNIQUE database constraint to the underlying database column for the indicated field of that type. A constraint specifies a rule for the data in a table and can be used to limit the type of data that can be placed in the table. In the case of a column with a UNIQUE constraint, all values in the column must be different.

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    book: Book
    library: Library
}

type Book {
    id: ID!
    name: Bytes8! @unique
}

type Library {
    id: ID!
    book: Book!
}

A UNIQUE constraint will be created on the book table's name column, ensuring that no books can share the same name.

Important: When using explict or implicit foreign keys, it is required that the reference column name in your foreign key relationship be unique. ID types are by default unique, but all other types will have to be explicitly specified as being unique via the @unique directive.

`@join`

The @join directive is used to relate a field in one type to others by referencing fields in another type. You can think of it as a link between two tables in your database. The field in the referenced type is called a foreign key and it is required to be unique.

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    book: Book
    library: Library
}

type Book {
    id: ID!
    name: Bytes8! @unique
}

type Library {
    id: ID!
    book: Book! @join(on:name)
}

A foreign key constraint will be created on library.book that references book.name, which relates the Books in a Library to the underlying Book table.

GraphQL API Server

The fuel-indexer-api-server crate of the Fuel indexer contains a standalone GraphQL API server that acts as a queryable endpoint on top of the database.
Note that the main fuel-indexer binary of the indexer project also contains a queryable GraphQL API endpoint.

The fuel-indexer-api-server crate offers a standalone GraphQL API endpoint, whereas the GraphQL endpoint offered in fuel-indexer is bundled with other Fuel indexer functionality (e.g., execution, handling, data-layer contruction, etc).

Usage

To run the standalone Fuel indexer GraphQL API server using a configuration file:

fuel-indexer-api-server run --config config.yaml

In the above example, config.yaml is based on the default service configuration file.

Options

USAGE:
    fuel-indexer-api-server run [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -c, --config <CONFIG>
            API server config file.

        --database <DATABASE>
            Database type. [default: postgres] [possible values: postgres]

        --graphql-api-host <GRAPHQL_API_HOST>
            GraphQL API host. [default: 127.0.0.1]

        --graphql-api-port <GRAPHQL_API_PORT>
            GraphQL API port. [default: 29987]

    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>
            Log level passed to the Fuel Indexer service. [default: info] [possible values: info,
            debug, error, warn]

        --metrics <metrics>
            Use Prometheus metrics reporting. [default: true]

        --postgres-database <POSTGRES_DATABASE>
            Postgres database.

        --postgres-host <POSTGRES_HOST>
            Postgres host.

        --postgres-password <POSTGRES_PASSWORD>
            Postgres password.

        --postgres-port <POSTGRES_PORT>
            Postgres port.

        --postgres-user <POSTGRES_USER>
            Postgres username.

        --run-migrations <run-migrations>
            Run database migrations before starting service. [default: true]

    -V, --version
            Print version information

Foreign Keys

The Fuel indexer service supports foreign key constraints and relationships using a combination of GraphQL schema and a database.
There are two types of uses for foreign keys - implicit and explicit.

IMPORTANT:

Implicit foreign keys do not require a @join directive. When using implicit foreign key references, merely add the referenced object as a field type (shown below). A lookup will automagically be done to add a foreign key constraint using this object's' id field.

Note that implicit foreign key relationships only use the id field on the referenced table. If you plan to use implicit foreign keys, the object being referenced must have an id field.

In contrast, explicit foreign keys do require a @join directive. Explicit foreign key references work similarly to implicit foreign keys; however, when using explicit foreign key references, you must add a @join directive after your object type. This @join directive includes the field in your foreign object that you would like to reference (shown below).

Let's learn how to use each foreign key type by looking at some GraphQL schema examples.

Usage

Implicit foreign keys

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    book: Book
    library: Library
}

type Book {
    id: ID!
    name: Bytes8!
}

type Library {
    id: ID!
    book: Book!
}

Implicit foreign key breakdown

Given the above schema, two entities will be created: a Book entity, and a Library entity. As you can see, we add the Book entity as an attribute on the Library entity, thus conveying that we want a one-to-many or one-to-one relationship between Library and Book. This means that for a given Library, we may also fetch one or many Book entities. It also means that the column library.book will be an integer type that references book.id.

Explicit foreign keys

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    book: Book
    library: Library
}

type Book {
    id: ID!
    name: Bytes8! @unique
}

type Library {
    id: ID!
    book: Book! @join(on:name)
}

Explicit foreign key breakdown

For the most part, this works the same way as implicit foreign key usage. However, as you can see, instead of implicitly using book.id as the reference column for our Book object, we're instead explicitly specifying that we want book.name to serve as our foreign key. Also, please note that since we're using book.name in our foreign key constraint, that column is required to be unique (via the @unique directive).

Foreign Keys

The Fuel indexer service supports foreign key constraints and relationships using a combination of GraphQL schema and a database.
There are two types of uses for foreign keys - implicit and explicit.

IMPORTANT:

Implicit foreign keys do not require a @join directive. When using implicit foreign key references, merely add the referenced object as a field type (shown below). A lookup will automagically be done to add a foreign key constraint using this object's' id field.

Note that implicit foreign key relationships only use the id field on the referenced table. If you plan to use implicit foreign keys, the object being referenced must have an id field.

In contrast, explicit foreign keys do require a @join directive. Explicit foreign key references work similarly to implicit foreign keys; however, when using explicit foreign key references, you must add a @join directive after your object type. This @join directive includes the field in your foreign object that you would like to reference (shown below).

Let's learn how to use each foreign key type by looking at some GraphQL schema examples.

Usage

Implicit foreign keys

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    book: Book
    library: Library
}

type Book {
    id: ID!
    name: Bytes8!
}

type Library {
    id: ID!
    book: Book!
}

Implicit foreign key breakdown

Explicit foreign keys

schema {
    query: QueryRoot
}

type QueryRoot {
    book: Book
    library: Library
}

type Book {
    id: ID!
    name: Bytes8! @unique
}

type Library {
    id: ID!
    book: Book! @join(on:name)
}

Explicit foreign key breakdown

ID Types

There are a few important things related to the use of IDs.

Every GraphQL type defined in your schema file is required to have an id field.

This field must be called id

The type of this id field must by a u64

You typically want to use the ID type for these id fields

Why must every field have an ID?

Since the Fuel Indexer uses WASM runtimes to index events, an FFI is needed to call in and out of the runtime. When these calls out of the runtime are made, a pointer is passed back to the indexer service to indicate where the id of the type/object/entity being saved is.

Is this liable to change in the future?

Yes, ideally we'd like ID's to be of any type, and we plan to work towards this in the future. 👍

forc index

forc index is the recommended method for end users to interact with the Fuel indexer. After you have installed fuelup, you can run the forc index help command in your terminal to view the available commands.

forc index help

USAGE:
    forc-index <SUBCOMMAND>

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help       Print help information
    -V, --version    Print version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    build     Build an index
    check     Get status checks on all indexer components
    deploy    Deploy an index asset bundle to a remote or locally running indexer server
    help      Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    init      Create a new indexer project in the current directory
    new       Create a new indexer project in a new directory
    remove    Stop and remove a running index
    start     Start a local indexer service

`forc index init`

Create a new index project at the provided path. If no path is provided the current working directory will be used.

forc index init --namespace fuel

USAGE:
    forc-index init [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help                     Print help information
        --name <NAME>              Name of index.
        --namespace <NAMESPACE>    Namespace in which index belongs.
        --native                   Whether to initialize an index with native execution enabled.
    -p, --path <PATH>              Path at which to create index.

`forc index new`

Create new index project at the provided path.

forc index new --namespace fuel --path /home/fuel/projects

USAGE:
    forc-index new [OPTIONS] <PATH>

ARGS:
    <PATH>    Path at which to create index

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help                     Print help information
        --name <NAME>              Name of index.
        --namespace <NAMESPACE>    Namespace in which index belongs.
        --native                   Whether to initialize an index with native execution enabled.

`forc index check`

Check to see which indexer components you have installed.

forc index check

USAGE:
    forc-index check [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
        --grpahql-api-port <GRPAHQL_API_PORT>
            Port at which to detect indexer service API is running. [default: 29987]

    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --url <URL>
            URL at which to find indexer service. [default: http://127.0.0.1:29987]

You can expect the command output to look something like this example in which the requisite components are installed but the indexer service is not running:

➜  forc index check

❌ Could not connect to indexer service: error sending request for url (http://127.0.0.1:29987/api/health): error trying to connect: tcp connect error: Connection refused (os error 61)

+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Status |       Component        |                                  Details                                   |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | fuel-indexer binary    |  Found 'fuel-indexer' at '/Users/me/.fuelup/bin/fuel-indexer'              |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   ⛔️   | fuel-indexer service   |  Failed to detect a locally running fuel-indexer service at Port(29987).   |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | psql                   |  Found 'psql' at '/usr/local/bin/psql'                                     |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | fuel-core              |  Found 'fuel-core' at '/Users/me/.fuelup/bin/fuel-core'                    |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | docker                 |  Found 'docker' at '/usr/local/bin/docker'                                 |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | fuelup                 |  Found 'fuelup' at '/Users/me/.fuelup/bin/fuelup'                          |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   ✅   | wasm-snip              |  Found 'wasm-snip' at '/Users/me/.cargo/bin/wasm-snip'                     |
+--------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

`forc index build`

Build an index

forc index build --release --manifest my_index.manifest.yaml

USAGE:
    forc-index build [OPTIONS] --manifest <MANIFEST>

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help                   Print help information
        --locked                 Ensure that the Cargo.lock file is up-to-date.
    -m, --manifest <MANIFEST>    Path of index manifest being built.
        --native                 Building for native execution.
        --profile <PROFILE>      Build with the given profile.
    -r, --release                Build optimized artifacts with the release profile.
        --target <TARGET>        Target at which to compile.
    -v, --verbose                Verbose output.

`forc index start`

Start a local Fuel Indexer service.

forc index start --background

USAGE:
    forc-index start [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
        --background               Whether to run the Fuel Indexer in the background.
        --bin <BIN>                Path to the fuel-indexer binary.
        --config <CONFIG>          Path to the config file used to start the Fuel Indexer.
    -h, --help                     Print help information
        --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>    Log level passed to the Fuel Indexer service. [default: info]
                                   [possible values: info, debug, error, warn]

`forc index deploy`

Deploy a given index project to a particular endpoint

forc index deploy --url https://index.swaysway.io --manifest my_index.manifest.yaml

USAGE:
    forc-index deploy [OPTIONS] --manifest <MANIFEST>

OPTIONS:
        --auth <AUTH>            Authentication header value.
    -h, --help                   Print help information
        --manifest <MANIFEST>    Path of the index manifest to upload.
        --url <URL>              URL at which to upload index assets. [default:
                                 http://127.0.0.1:29987]

`forc index remove`

Stop and remove a running index

forc index remove --url https://index.swayswap.io --manifest my_index.manifest.yaml

USAGE:
    forc-index remove [OPTIONS] --manifest <MANIFEST>

OPTIONS:
        --auth <AUTH>            Authentication header value.
    -h, --help                   Print help information
        --manifest <MANIFEST>    Path of the index manifest to be parsed.
        --url <URL>              URL at which to upload index assets. [default:
                                 http://127.0.0.1:29987]

For Contributors

Thanks for your interest in contributing to the Fuel indexer! Below we've compiled a list of sections that you may find useful as you work on a potential contribution:

Dependencies

`fuelup`

We use fuelup in order to get the binaries produced by services in the Fuel ecosystem. Fuelup will install binaries related to the Fuel node, the Fuel indexer, the Fuel orchestrator (forc), and other components.
fuelup can be downloaded here.

`docker`

We use Docker to produce reproducible environments for users that may be concerned with installing components with large sets of dependencies (e.g. Postgres).
Docker can be downloaded here.

Database

At this time, the Fuel indexer requires the use of a database. We currently support a single database option: Postgres. PostgreSQL is a database solution with a complex feature set and requires a database server.

PostgreSQL

Note: The following explanation is for demonstration purposes only. A production setup should use secure users, permissions, and passwords.

In either case, your PostgreSQL database should now be accessible at postgres://postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/[DATABASE_NAME].

SQLx

After setting up your database, you should install sqlx-cli in order to run migrations for your indexer service.
You can do so by running cargo install sqlx-cli --features postgres.
Once installed, you can run the migrations by running the following command after changing DATABASE_URL to match your setup.

Building from Source

Clone repository

git clone git@github.com:FuelLabs/fuel-indexer.git && cd fuel-indexer/

Run migrations

Postgres migrations

cd packages/fuel-indexer-database/postgres
DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres@localhost sqlx migrate run

Start the service

cargo run --bin fuel-indexer run

You can also start the service with a fresh local node for development purposes:

cargo run --features local-node --bin fuel-indexer run

If no configuration file or other options are passed, the service will default to a postgres://postgres@localhost database connection.

Testing

Fuel indexer tests are currently broken out by a database feature flag. In order to run tests with a Postgres backend, use --features postgres.

Further, the indexer uses end-to-end (E2E) tests. In order to trigger these end-to-end tests, you'll want to use the e2e features flag: --features e2e.

All end-to-end tests also require the use of a database feature. For example, to run the end-to-end tests with a Posgres backend, use --features e2e,postgres.

Default tests

cargo test --locked --workspace --all-targets

End-to-end tests

cargo test --locked --workspace --all-targets --features e2e,postgres

`trybuild` tests

For tests related to the meta-programming used in the Fuel indexer, we use trybuild.

RUSTFLAGS='-D warnings' cargo test -p fuel-indexer-macros --locked

Contributing to Fuel Indexer

Thanks for your interest in contributing to Fuel Indexer! This document outlines some the conventions on building, running, and testing Fuel Indexer.

Fuel Indexer has many dependent repositories. If you need any help or mentoring getting started, understanding the codebase, or anything else, please ask on our Discord.

Code Standards

We use an RFC process to maintain our code standards. They currently live in the RFC repo: https://github.com/FuelLabs/rfcs/tree/master/text/code-standards

Building and setting up a development workspace

Fuel Core is mostly written in Rust, but includes components written in C++ (RocksDB). We are currently using the latest Rust stable toolchain to build the project. But for rustfmt, we use Rust nightly toolchain because it provides more code style features(you can check rustfmt.toml).

Prerequisites

To build Fuel Core you'll need to at least have the following installed:

git - version control
rustup - Rust installer and toolchain manager
clang - Used to build system libraries (required for rocksdb).
postgresql/libpq - Used for Postgres backend.

See the README.md for platform specific setup steps.

Getting the repository

Future instructions assume you are in this repository

git clone https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-indexer
cd fuel-indexer

Configuring your Rust toolchain

rustup is the official toolchain manager for Rust.

We use some additional components such as clippy and rustfmt, to install those:

rustup component add clippy
rustup component add rustfmt

Fuel Indexer also uses a few other tools installed via cargo

cargo install sqlx-cli
cargo install wasm-snip

Building and testing

Fuel Indexer's two primary crates are fuel-indexer and fuel-indexer-api-server.

You can build Fuel Indexer:

cargo build -p fuel-indexer -p fuel-indexer-api-server

This command will run cargo build and also dump the latest schema into /assets/ folder.

Linting is done using rustfmt and clippy, which are each separate commands:

cargo fmt --all --check

cargo clippy --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings

The test suite follows the Rust cargo standards. The GraphQL service will be instantiated by Tower and will emulate a server/client structure.

Testing is simply done using Cargo:

RUSTFLAGS='-D warnings' SQLX_OFFLINE=1 cargo test --locked --all-targets --all-features

Build Options

For optimal performance, we recommend using native builds. The generated binary will be optimized for your CPU and may contain specific instructions supported only in your hardware.

To build, run:

cargo build --release --bin fuel-indexer

The generated binary will be located in ./target/release/fuel-indexer

Build issues

Due to dependencies on external components such as RocksDb, build times can be large without caching. We currently use sccache

cargo build -p fuel-indexer --no-default-features

Contribution flow

This is a rough outline of what a contributor's workflow looks like:

Make sure what you want to contribute is already tracked as an issue. We may discuss the problem and solution in the issue. ⚠️ DO NOT submit PRs that do not have an associated issue ⚠️
Create a Git branch from where you want to base your work.
- Most work is usually branched off of master
- Give your branch a name related to the work you're doing
Write code, add test cases, and commit your work.
Run tests and make sure all tests pass.
Your commit message should be formatted as [commit type]: [short commit blurb]
- Examples:
  - If you fixed a bug, your message is fix: database locking issue
  - If you added new functionality, your message would be enhancement: i add something super cool
  - If you just did a chore your message is: chore: i did somthing not fun
- Keeping commit messages short and consistent helps users parse release notes
Push up your branch to Github then (on the right hand side of the Github UI):
- Assign yourself as the owner of the PR
- Add any and all necessary labels to your PR
- Link the issue your PR solves, to your PR
If you are part of the FuelLabs Github org, please open a PR from the repository itself.
Otherwise, push your changes to a branch in your fork of the repository and submit a pull request.
- Make sure mention the issue, which is created at step 1, in the commit message.
Your PR will be reviewed and some changes may be requested.
- Once you've made changes, your PR must be re-reviewed and approved.
- If the PR becomes out of date, you can use GitHub's 'update branch' button.
- If there are conflicts, you can merge and resolve them locally. Then push to your PR branch.
  - Any changes to the branch will require a re-review.
Our CI (Github Actions) automatically tests all authorized pull requests.
Use Github to merge the PR once approved.

Commit categories

bug: If fixing broken functionality
enhancement: If adding new functionality
chore: If finishing valuable work (that's no fun!)
testing: If only updating/writing tests
docs: If just updating docs
feat: If adding a non-trivial new feature
There will be categories not covered in this doc - use your best judgement!

Thanks for your contributions!

Finding something to work on

For beginners, we have prepared many suitable tasks for you. Checkout our Good First Issues for a list.

If you are planning something that relates to multiple components or changes current behaviors, make sure to open an issue to discuss with us before continuing.

Release Schedule

https://semver.org/

Major releases

E.g., v2.0.0 -> v3.0.0
Major releases of large features and breaking changes
Cadence: TBD - as needed

Minor releases

E.g., v0.3.0 -> v0.4.0
General releases of new functionality, fixes, and some breaking changes
Cadence: Every other week, Tuesday morning 11am EST

Patch releases

E.g., v0.1.3 -> v0.1.4
Releases for bug fixes and time sensitive improvements
Cadence: Ad-hoc as needed throughout the week

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