I have a parity chain spec file that I'm running on several nodes in a private network. I need to run a geth node and connect it to this private network.
How do I use this chain spec file to connect geth to the private network?
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As far as I know there is not tool to convert a parity chain spec into a valid geth genesis json. What you could do is creating the geth genesis first and generate a valid parity chain spec afterwards.– q9fMay 23, 2017 at 13:05
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I did not ask for a tool. My question was not about converting anything. My question was: "how do I use this chain spec file to connect geth to the private network?"– stone.212May 23, 2017 at 20:49
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Oh I see: It's not possible since geth expects another format.– q9fMay 24, 2017 at 9:21
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Right. And there must be some way to take the information in one format it and re-format it for the other. My question is how to do that.– stone.212May 24, 2017 at 21:48
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I'm not familiar with creating private ethereum networks with parity but am familiar with creating geth networks. Can you post the parity configuration file?– 0xcaffJun 9, 2017 at 0:39
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keorn's chain spec converter is a usefull tool to convert geth chain specs, but I do not know of any tool working the other way around.
It's best to start with a working set of genesis files and chain specs for both clients. Since this question keeps coming up, I created a working chainspec for both clients:
git clone https://github.com/5chdn/crossclient-chainspec
cd crossclient-chainspec
Geth:
$ geth init --datadir ~/.ethereum/crossclient geth.json
$ geth --datadir ~/.ethereum/crossclient --networkid 1337 --port 31333 --rpcport 8538
Parity:
$ parity --chain parity.json --port 31337 --jsonrpc-port 8539
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You said "It's best to start with a working set of genesis files and chain specs for both clients." but that's the whole issue. The question is how to make that happen? In this iteration of the question, I am asking how to convert the parity chain spec to a working geth genesis file. Your answer is probably useful for people with a different problem, or with a different question, but my problem is not that I don't have both types of files, and my question is specifically how to use a chain spec file (parity) and use its data to get a geth node on the network. Jun 20, 2017 at 2:11
After months of research, I determined that there is not any way to do this at present. Geth is not configurable enough to accommodate Parity chain spec parameters (unless you are only changing the same parameters that exist in a Geth genesis file).