Setup multiple connections on same home

[orkunkl]

Currently you can only setup one connection from registry and this information is saved to app.yaml
For setting up new relayers on the same machine, the registry.yaml must be copied to a new relayer home and set up must be done again for the connection.
app.yaml:

src: hackatom-ru-ics20
dest: swap-testnet-2001
mnemonic: ***
srcConnection: connection-0
destConnection: connection-1

In this case what ibc-relayer start --src --dst flags are for?

Please close the issue if you are aware of this issue.

[ethanfrey]

This is a good question.
I think we wanted to remove these unused (and unusable flags).

I need to check the current state of the CLI

[ethanfrey]

Ah, this exists as we wanted to make ibc-relayer work with 12 factor style.

You can use an app.yaml file which is created via the various ibc-setup commands. This is great for local development and can be used in production.

You can also run it without any app.yaml, specifying everything via cli flags (--src --src-connection) or env variables (RELAYER_SRC, RELAYER_SRC_CONNECTION).

If this is all to confusing, I could remove the cli flags here and make it only app.yaml or env variables.

Or error if multiple elements are both set and are not identical.

What do you think?

[orkunkl]

Considering 12 factor style, flags makes sense.

Or error if multiple elements are both set and are not identical.

This could work. Also specifying which app.yaml to run as flag could make sense.

[ethanfrey]

Also specifying which app.yaml to run as flag could make sense.

That is what the --home flag is for. We read the app.yaml and registry.yaml from that dir, nothing else.