[E2E] Allow testing with live-chain state

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+- [E2E] Allow testing with live-chain state - [#1949](/~https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1949)
+- Stabilize `call_runtime` ‒ [#1749](/~https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1749)
+- Schema generation - [#1765](/~https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1765)
+- Add `set_block_number` to off-chain test api `Engine` - [#1806](/~https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1806)
 - [E2E] Call builders and extra gas margin option - [#1917](/~https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1917)
 - Make `set_code_hash` generic - [#1906](/~https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1906)
 - Clean E2E configuration parsing - [#1922](/~https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1922)

crates/e2e/Cargo.toml

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ scale-info = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 [features]
 default = ["std"]
 std = []
+live-state-test = ["subxt/unstable-light-client"]
 drink = [
     "dep:drink",
     "subxt-metadata",

crates/e2e/src/node_proc.rs

@@ -161,11 +161,20 @@ where
                 e
             )
         })?;
-
-        // Wait for RPC port to be logged (it's logged to stderr):
         let stderr = proc.stderr.take().unwrap();
-        let port = find_substrate_port_from_output(stderr);
-        let url = format!("ws://127.0.0.1:{port}");
+        // Wait for RPC port to be logged (it's logged to stderr):
+        let port_str: String = match option_env!("WS_PORT") {
+            Some(v) => v.to_string(),
+            None => {
+                // expect to have a number here (the chars after '127.0.0.1:').
+                find_substrate_port_from_output(stderr)
+            }
+        };
+
+        let ws_port: u16 = port_str
+            .parse()
+            .unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("valid port number expected, got '{port_str}'"));
+        let url = format!("ws://127.0.0.1:{ws_port}");
 
         // Connect to the node with a `subxt` client:
         let rpc = RpcClient::from_url(url.clone())
@@ -195,7 +204,7 @@ where
 
 // Consume a stderr reader from a spawned substrate command and
 // locate the port number that is logged out to it.
-fn find_substrate_port_from_output(r: impl Read + Send + 'static) -> u16 {
+fn find_substrate_port_from_output(r: impl Read + Send + 'static) -> String {
     BufReader::new(r)
         .lines()
         .find_map(|line| {
@@ -215,13 +224,7 @@ fn find_substrate_port_from_output(r: impl Read + Send + 'static) -> u16 {
             // trim non-numeric chars from the end of the port part of the line.
             let port_str = line_end.trim_end_matches(|b: char| !b.is_ascii_digit());
 
-            // expect to have a number here (the chars after '127.0.0.1:') and parse them
-            // into a u16.
-            let port_num = port_str.parse().unwrap_or_else(|_| {
-                panic!("valid port expected for tracing line, got '{port_str}'")
-            });
-
-            Some(port_num)
+            Some(port_str.to_string())
         })
         .expect("We should find a port before the reader ends")
 }

integration-tests/e2e-call-runtime/Cargo.toml

@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ publish = false
 ink = { path = "../../crates/ink", default-features = false }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-ink_e2e = { path = "../../crates/e2e" }
-subxt = { version = "0.32.1", default-features = false }
+ink_e2e = { path = "../../crates/e2e", features = ["live-state-test"]}
 
 [lib]
 path = "lib.rs"