## Issue Addressed
Resolves#1744
## Proposed Changes
- Add `directory::ensure_dir_exists` to the `ValidatorDefinition::open_or_create` method
- As @pawanjay176 suggested, making the `--validator-dir` non-global so users are forced to include the flag after the `validator` subcommand. Current behavior seems to be ignoring the flag if it comes after something like `validator import`
## Additional Info
N/A
## Issue Addressed
- Resolves#1706
## Proposed Changes
Updates dependencies across the workspace. Any crate that was not able to be brought to the latest version is listed in #1712.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
- Implements a HTTP API for the validator client.
- Creates EIP-2335 keystores with an empty `description` field, instead of a missing `description` field. Adds option to set name.
- Be more graceful with setups without any validators (yet)
- Remove an error log when there are no validators.
- Create the `validator` dir if it doesn't exist.
- Allow building a `ValidatorDir` without a withdrawal keystore (required for the API method where we only post a voting keystore).
- Add optional `description` field to `validator_definitions.yml`
## TODO
- [x] Signature header, as per https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/1269#issuecomment-649879855
- [x] Return validator descriptions
- [x] Return deposit data
- [x] Respect the mnemonic offset
- [x] Check that mnemonic can derive returned keys
- [x] Be strict about non-localhost
- [x] Allow graceful start without any validators (+ create validator dir)
- [x] Docs final pass
- [x] Swap to EIP-2335 description field.
- [x] Fix Zerioze TODO in VC api types.
- [x] Zeroize secp256k1 key
## Endpoints
- [x] `GET /lighthouse/version`
- [x] `GET /lighthouse/health`
- [x] `GET /lighthouse/validators`
- [x] `POST /lighthouse/validators/hd`
- [x] `POST /lighthouse/validators/keystore`
- [x] `PATCH /lighthouse/validators/:validator_pubkey`
- [ ] ~~`POST /lighthouse/validators/:validator_pubkey/exit/:epoch`~~ Future works
## Additional Info
TBC
## Issue Addressed
#1437
## Proposed Changes
- Make the `--wallet-password` flag optional and creates an interactive prompt if not provided.
- Make the `--wallet-name` flag optional and creates an interactive prompt if not provided.
- Add a minimum password requirement of a 12 character length.
- Update the `--stdin-passwords` flag to `--stdin-inputs` because we have non-password user inputs
## Additional Info
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Add a `lighthouse am wallet recover` command that recreates a wallet from a mnemonic but no validator keys. Add a `lighthouse am validator recover` command which would directly create keys from a mnemonic for a given index and count.
## Additional Info
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
## Issue Addressed
- Resolves#1361
## Proposed Changes
Loosens the constraints imposed by EIP-2335 so we can import keys from Prysm.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
- Introduces the `valdiator_definitions.yml` file which serves as an explicit list of validators that should be run by the validator client.
- Removes `--strict` flag, split into `--strict-lockfiles` and `--disable-auto-discover`
- Adds a "Validator Management" page to the book.
- Adds the `common/account_utils` crate which contains some logic that was starting to duplicate across the codebase.
The new docs for this feature are the best description of it (apart from the code, I guess): 9cb87e93ce/book/src/validator-management.md
## API Changes
This change should be transparent for *most* existing users. If the `valdiator_definitions.yml` doesn't exist then it will be automatically generated using a method that will detect all the validators in their `validators_dir`.
Users will have issues if they are:
1. Using `--strict`.
1. Have keystores in their `~/.lighthouse/validators` directory that weren't being detected by the current keystore discovery method.
For users with (1), the VC will refuse to start because the `--strict` flag has been removed. They will be forced to review `--help` and choose an equivalent flag.
For users with (2), this seems fairly unlikely and since we're only in testnets there's no *real* value on the line here. I'm happy to take the risk, it would be a different case for mainnet.
## Additional Info
This PR adds functionality we will need for #1347.
## TODO
- [x] Reconsider flags
- [x] Move doc into a more reasonable chapter.
- [x] Check for compile warnings.
