Integrate Substrate based 2D barcode scanner Pallet in your Substrate Runtime

In my previous post Substrate based 2D barcode scanner Pallet in Rust, I explained how to create Substrate pallet easily. A pallet, Also known as Runtime modules, contains the logic, which can modify the features and functionality of your blockchain’s state-transition function.

A typical Substrate project consists of 4 components:

Node
Runtime
Pallets
Execute in Docker

The runtime is Substrate’s state transition function and is divided into separate logical components that are known as runtime modules(Pallets).

In this blog, I would explain how to add a substrate runtime module(pallet) in substrate runtime. I will be using Substrate Node Template as substrate project and will import our substrate-barcode-scanner-pallet in its runtime.

1. Please complete Create Your First Substrate Chain tutorial to install Node Template.
2. Import the Pallet: Add the dependency of substrate-barcode-scanner-pallet in runtime/Cargo.toml of Substrate Node Template.

# --snip--
[dependencies.substrate-barcode-scanner-pallet]
default_features = false
git = 'https://github.com/knoldus/substrate-barcode-scanner-pallet'
branch = 'main'

# toward the bottom
[features]
default = ['std']
std = [
    'substrate-barcode-scanner-pallet/std',
    # --snip--
]

3. Configure the Pallet: Now update runtime/src/lib.rs of Substrate Node Template to use our runtime pallet, by adding a trait implementation with our substrate_barcode_scanner_pallet and add it in our construct_runtime! macro.

// add the following code block
impl substrate_barcode_scanner_pallet::Trait for Runtime {
	type Event = Event;
	type ManufactureOrigin = frame_system::EnsureSigned<AccountId>;
}

// --snip--
construct_runtime!(
  pub enum Runtime where
    Block = Block,
    NodeBlock = opaque::Block,
    UncheckedExtrinsic = UncheckedExtrinsic
  {
    // --snip--
    // add the following line
    SubstrateBarcodeScanner: substrate_barcode_scanner_pallet::{Module, Call, Storage, Event<T>},
  }
);

4. Interact with Pallet through UI: Now go back to Substrate Node Template‘s root directory and compile the node in release mode with:

cargo build --release

After the build succeeds, you can start the node:

# Run a temporary node in development mode
./target/release/node-template --dev --tmp

Substrate also provides a Front-End Template to allow you to interact with the Node Template. Please go through front-end setup instructions .

To start the Front-End Template, navigate to its directory and run:

yarn start

You should see substrateBarcodeScanner as new pallet in Pallet Interactor.

After adding new product, a new event ProductInformationStored has been emitted.

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