rain.factory

Docs at https://rainprotocol.github.io/rain.factory

Concrete implementations

CloneFactory implements the latest version of ICloneableFactory allowing any compatible ICloneable contract to be cloned as an EIP1167 proxy and initialized.

CloneFactory implements interpreter deployer discoverability.

Interfaces

Contains interfaces for working with Rain factories.

Rain tooling/ecosystem generally tries to be as agnostic and low friction as possible on the implementation side.

The ideal would be that "any" contract can call an interpreter and magically be supported but there's a lot that can go wrong, for example:

Contracts can self destruct or even redeployed with new bytecode
Proxies can point to new implementations and "upgrade"
Discoverability of ABIs and other metadata subject to indexer limitations

Falling short of the ideal, we want to support:

Ability to (dis)trust contracts at the bytecode level NOT the human/key level
Support existing patterns such as EIP1167 for clones, etc.
Avoid introducing Rain-isms as much as possible

The onchain tooling for analysis is found at https://github.com/rainprotocol/rain.extrospection

The current interfaces in this repository are for

ICloneableFactoryV2 that is expected to clone proxies from a reference implementation
A small interface ICloneableV2 designed for cloneable proxy contracts to expose an initialize function that the factory can call to act like a constructor

Legacy

`ICloneableV1`

This version of ICloneable did not have any explicit return value on success of initialize. It is possible for contracts that do not implement ICloneableV1 to silently fail to initialize when cloned by an ICloneableFactoryV1.

Newer versions of the interface include an explicit success value and check.

`IFactory`

The legacy factory model was much more restricted in that each factory implementation was 1:1 with the thing it was deploying. If you needed a new contract you also needed to implement a new factory.

This was suboptimal for several reasons:

Increased surface area for things to go wrong
More Rain-isms creeping in
Redundant work to maintain a growing list of factories

The legacy interface is available as IFactory but it is NOT RECOMMENDED for new contracts.