Blockchain Development with Hyperledger
by Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny
Channel configuration updates
As mentioned earlier in this chapter, there are many reasons why a channel configuration may have to be changed. As channel behavior is completely dictated by its configuration, and any update is recorded on the blockchain, hence overriding the earlier configuration, this is a very sensitive operation that must be restricted to privileged users, just like the initial portions of our application creation steps such as channel creation and joining (see Chapter 5, Exposing Network Assets and Transactions) were. An exhaustive discussion and demonstration of channel configuration changes is beyond the scope of this book, but we will show the mechanism of updates and a way to wrap those mechanisms in our application; ...
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