Better documentation of default_balance_ether option needed

[0xGabi]

Expected Behavior

It should set account balance to new default_balance_ether option.

Current Behavior

It sets account balance to 100 ETH no matter the default_balance_ether option.

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Install with npm i -g @aragon/aragen
2. Ran aragen start --default_balance_ether <balance>
3. Check on a provider that you still have default 100 ETH balance

Context

I would like to initialize the account with a configurable amount of ETH.

Your Environment

• Version used: 2.7.0
• Environment name and version (e.g. PHP 5.4 on nginx 1.9.1): node LTS
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• Operating System and version: MacOS 10.15 Beta (19A526h)
• Link to your project: here

[davidmurdoch]

The docs are a bit confusing here (we are already working on updating them to make them better). The CLI option you are looking for is --defaultBalanceEther. Try that and let me know if you still have a problem. Sorry for the confusion!

[0xGabi]

Hi David thanks for your answer. I actually double check with several combination of defaultBalanceEther, e and default_balance_ether and is still not working.

I think I have done the same you are doing here. You can look the specific line of my core here, thanks.

Nevertheless I tried using ganache-cli with --defaultBalanceEther and work as expected 🤔

[davidmurdoch]

Are you suggesting this is a bug in the way aragen reads in its command line args?

[0xGabi]

I'm not sure if I understood your question correctly, I think the answer is no, cause I tried to initialize ganache-core server with a a hardcoded value and it also set accounts with 100 ETH

[davidmurdoch]

Hm. I've tested myself and this does work:

    const options = {
      default_balance_ether: 1.23456
    };
    const provider = Ganache.provider(options);

[0xGabi]

Great, I should double check the code, thanks for you time

[davidmurdoch]

Let me know if you figure out the issue! I'd love to clarify our documentation so this doesn't happen to anyone else in the future.

[0xGabi]

Hey @davidmurdoch I think I found what was going on. In our case we have a chain snapshot and the same mnemonic was used to generate that snapshot so the accounts were already allocated default amount of ETH when the snapshot was created. I wonder in case of passing a db_path how much of the configurations are able to be modify, for example including a new mnemonic with 200ETH as default is something possible?

Thanks

[davidmurdoch]

Reopening this issue so we can clarify our documentation around how the flags interoperate.