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Merge EthKeyringController into KeyringController #3766

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Description

@mikesposito

We should merge EthKeyringController functionalities into KeyringController, without changing any of the features exposed to clients by KeyringController.

This issue does not (necessarily) cover the work needed to keep test coverage at the 100% threshold, which is tracked by #3767 instead.

The planned work is described in #2043.

Details

Constructor & Class properties

  1. We can retain the KeyringController constructor, merging EthKeyringController's init logic in it
  2. KeyringController.#keyring will have to be removed, and EthKeyringController.keyrings should be moved to KeyringController.#keyrings
  3. In addition to the above, all public class properties of EthKeyringController should be moved to KeyringController (if necessary) as sharp private properties, so that they are inaccessible from outside KeyringController
  4. EthKeyringController.#cacheEncryptionKey and .#encryptor should be moved to KeyringController.#cacheEncryptionKey and .#encryptor

Controller State & Messenger

  1. We can retain the current state metadata and all (and only) the messenger actions & events from core KeyringController: this should be reasonably easy and non-breaking, as we can assume that currently no client uses (or have access to) the internal EthKeyringController, and all other controllers don’t have access to events emitted by EthKeyringController already.
  2. Any update logic for EthKeyringController's store and memStore, should update the KeyringController state instead

State

(same as current KeyringController)
{
  vault: { persist: true, anonymous: false },
  isUnlocked: { persist: false, anonymous: true },
  keyrings: { persist: false, anonymous: false },
  encryptionKey: { persist: false, anonymous: false },
  encryptionSalt: { persist: false, anonymous: false },
}

Events

(same as current KeyringController)
  • KeyringControllerStateChangeEvent
  • KeyringControllerLockEvent
  • KeyringControllerUnlockEvent
  • KeyringControllerAccountRemovedEvent
  • KeyringControllerQRKeyringStateChangeEvent

Actions

(same as current KeyringController)
  • KeyringControllerGetStateAction
  • KeyringControllerSignMessageAction
  • KeyringControllerSignPersonalMessageAction
  • KeyringControllerSignTypedMessageAction
  • KeyringControllerDecryptMessageAction
  • KeyringControllerGetEncryptionPublicKeyAction
  • KeyringControllerGetAccountsAction
  • KeyringControllerGetKeyringsByTypeAction
  • KeyringControllerGetKeyringForAccountAction
  • KeyringControllerPersistAllKeyringsAction

Public Methods

  1. For the same reason as above, the minimum API coverage should be represented by the current KeyringController public API.
  2. All current public & private methods in EthKeyringController can be considered as potential private methods in the resulting new KeyringController API
  3. Some of the KeyringController public methods have a direct counterpart in EthKeyringController, most of the times even with the same name: there are instances of these where we can merge (or cut-paste :D) the logic from the EthKeyringController method into the KeyringController’s counterpart (which will be the one we’ll retain).
  4. There is some logic in the current KeyringController which is directly related to maintaining the two controller state in sync (e.g. fullUpdate): we can remove this logic completely, as the resulting single controller will have a single state, and all external clients can use the KeyringController messenger to subscribe to state updates

The resulting API should look like this:

(same as current KeyringController)
  • addNewAccount
  • addNewAccountForKeyring
  • addNewAccountWithoutUpdate
  • createNewVaultWithKeyring
  • addNewKeyring
  • verifyPassword
  • isUnlocked
  • exportSeedPhrase
  • exportAccount
  • getAccounts
  • getEncryptionPublicKey
  • decryptMessage
  • getKeyringForAccount
  • getKeyringsByType
  • persistAllKeyrings
  • importAccountWithStrategy
  • removeAccount
  • setLocked
  • signMessage
  • signPersonalMessage
  • signTypedMessage
  • signTransaction
  • submitEncryptionKey
  • submitPassword
  • verifySeedPhrase
  • getQRKeyring
  • getOrAddQRKeyring
  • restoreQRKeyring
  • resetQRKeyringState
  • getQRKeyringState
  • submitQRCryptoHDKey
  • submitQRCryptoAccount
  • submitQRSignature
  • cancelQRSignRequest
  • cancelQRSynchronization
  • connectQRHardware
  • unlockQRHardwareWalletAccount
  • getAccountKeyringType
  • forgetQRDevice

Types & Utils

  1. The keyring builder factory should be migrated to the @metamask/keyring-controller package
  2. Types related to the Encryptor should also be migrated

Blockers

This issue is blocked by these prerequisites:

  • All clients use KeyringController, EthKeyringController is used by KeyringController only
  • KeyringController uses the latest version of EthKeyringController
  • EthKeyringController has no unpublished changes
  • EthKeyringController has no open PRs
    • This PR will be opened again later on core repo, targeting KeyringController

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