Is there a way to set the canister id to be deployed before calling dfx deploy …? so that when I do some local tests of the ledger or ckbtc, etc I can use the same canister id in my tests and mo files? I try doing this by presetting my canister_ids.json i.e. { "canister": { "local": "mc6ru-gy…

Not sure because I am no dfx expert and no direct answer but, canister ids deployed locally are predictable in the sense that if you deploy your canisters always in the same order, you will always get the same canister ids. So that’s what I do. I either document the order in a README.md or create a…

appreciate the input, but yea I wanted it so that if I deploy a local icp ledger or local ckbtc ledger on a test server, if I move over to mainnet I didnt want to have to go to all my mo files and change the ids. This is useful to know though. canister ids deployed locally are predictable in the s…

[image] Iceypee: Albeit, for some reason for the one of my canisters I was able to actually change the canister id in .dfx/local/canister_ids.json and it worked. so yea idk Hope someone with better dfx can answer here. For what it’s worth and if it can help too maybe, there is also a thread a…

[image] Iceypee: appreciate the input, but yea I wanted it so that if I deploy a local icp ledger or local ckbtc ledger on a test server, if I move over to mainnet I didnt want to have to go to all my mo files and change the ids. This is useful to know though. dfx.json has a feature for remot…

e.g. to specificy Ledger and II existing canister IDs on mainnet, I’ve got following in my dfx: "internet_identity": { "type": "custom", "candid": "internet_identity.did", "wasm": "internet_identity.wasm", "build": "bash -c 'test -f internet_identity.wasm || curl -sSL https://github.com…

@paulyoung and @peterparker but thats basicallly to specify an already existing canister id on the specific network. Not if I wanted to create a canister with a specific id [image] Because I’m doing something where I want to update some hashmaps that use the canister-id’s/canister-principals as k…

I think you can pre-populate .dfx/local/canister_ids.json with any canister IDs you like and they will get used locally.

yea I tried that and I got this Caused by: Failed while trying to deploy canisters. Failed while trying to install all canisters. Failed to install wasm module to canister 'ckbtc'. Failed to install wasm in canister 'mc6ru-gyaaa-aaaar-qaaaq-cai'. Failed to install wasm. …

It would be very convenient to be able to specify an id for a local canister (for example, for ledger, token canisters, NFT canisters). Using the root canister_ids.json seems like a good option.

Seconded, this feature would be really useful to have! Not just for convenience but other tooling I have in mind.

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peterparker December 27, 2022, 5:18pm 4

Hope someone with better dfx can answer here. For what it’s worth and if it can help too maybe, there is also a thread about “env files for Motoko” ENV variables for motoko builds - #8 by paulyoung

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