JAM SDK

The Parity JAM SDK is at a very early stage of development but is functional for developing JAM services and authorizers. It consists of three main components:

• JAM Types & PVM Common
• JAM Bootstrap Service & Null Authorizer
• JAM PVM Builder

JAM Types & PVM Common

This the basic API of the SDK, including traits, types, functions and macros needed for expressing Services and Authorizers, including their invocations, returns and host functions.

There are two crates: jam-types and jam-pvm-common.

JAM Bootstrap Service & Null Authorizer

These are two basic PVM modules useful for creating sensible JAM Genesis configurations. They can be found in crates.io under jam-null-authorizer and jam-bootstrap-service.

After installing rustup, Bootstrap service can be downloaded using cargo clone:

$ cargo install cargo-clone # NOTE only needed once
...
$ cargo clone jam-bootstrap-service

The code for null authorizer can be cloned in a similar manner.

JAM PVM Builder

The JAM PVM Builder is CLI tool which allows PVM code blobs be built, either services or authorizers.

After installing rustup, it can be installed with:

$ rustup toolchain install nightly-2024-11-01 -c rust-src # NOTE only needed once
$ cargo install jam-pvm-build

Its usage can be seen in the usual way:

$ jam-pvm-build --help
CLI utility for building PVM code blobs, particularly services and authorizers.

Usage: jam-pvm-build [OPTIONS] [PATH]

Arguments:
  [PATH]
          Path of crate to build, defaults to current directory

Options:
  -o, --output <OUTPUT>
          Output path

  -m, --module <MODULE>
          Module type to build
          
          [default: automatic]

          Possible values:
          - automatic:  Automatically derive the module type from the crate name
          - service:    Service
          - authorizer: Authorizer

      --auto-install
          Install rustc dependencies if missing

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

  -V, --version
          Print version

For example, the jam-null-authorizer could be built using just:

$ cargo clone jam-null-authorizer
...
$ jam-pvm-build ./jam-null-authorizer

You could find the PVM binary jam-bootstrap-service.pvm in the current directory.