Add a way of visualizing transaction history

[tmigone]

Describe the feature

Problem

Sometimes it's useful to have a human readable way of visualizing the "transaction log history" for a deployment.

Solution

In conversation with @alcuadrado he mentioned a good solution to avoid having to duplicate the data would be to add a subcommand to hardhat ignition that would parse the journal files and log to console the relevant bits. This new command could allow filtering the data based on the outputs but also it could be piped to a file or other unix tools for further processing.

In our case the data we would be interested in is:

• timestamp
• from and to addresses
• tx hash
• parameters
• some form of human readable label that's associated with the action being taken (contract or module name for example)

As an example, this is what our custom deployment system logs when running a deployment:

[2024-09-09T19:44:26.629Z] > Deploying contract: GraphProxy
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.629Z]    = Sender: 0xACa94ef8bD5ffEE41947b4585a84BdA5a3d3DA6E
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.629Z]    = Params: [ 0xa2E3Aae2D21ee91F6Eeba955bc228513F452b328,0x34720e631A2C63E50b0B01f3DF4E94B21A24B6DC ]
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.629Z]    = TxHash: 0xffaa55ca48d9d00363d6d5405a97e9d71456ef9fbbd83332716ba82938f3576c
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.630Z]    = CreationCodeHash: 0x4e89f2d508c7fb36a48a2791a7dc187233ad7fec009ca84f1416a4aa648640af
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.630Z]    = RuntimeCodeHash: 0xea92401f476b5d9e7863f829cb1409d3b395c839cbf9e07286dd608ae129901b
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.630Z]    ✔ Transaction succeeded!
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.761Z] > Deploying contract: AllocationExchange
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.761Z]    = Sender: 0xACa94ef8bD5ffEE41947b4585a84BdA5a3d3DA6E
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.761Z]    = Params: [ 0xd23eD7B05448F007d7C810F48bd5fB363531E61a,0xef63884e6122af92030CE0fE18f732c826eB261a,0x3E5e9111Ae8eB78Fe1CC3bb8915d5D461F3Ef9A9,0xE11BA2b4D45Eaed5996Cd0823791E0C93114882d ]
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.761Z]    = TxHash: 0x918ce0dccf08d49836b8a013f9e9fd7f4f08b2958f2dd162dd9b06e4e844298e
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.763Z]    = CreationCodeHash: 0x3600c15b83507622be9f21892e1c183297542605c45bacdf03b2fa85ac59bba6
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.763Z]    = RuntimeCodeHash: 0x73b2c6034c03ed9b96ae6b64ad843ed55c9c33e6c4df1d321d1991e03c49a539
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.763Z]    ✔ Transaction succeeded!
...
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.775Z] > Sending transaction: GraphProxyAdmin.transferOwnership
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.775Z]    = Sender: 0xACa94ef8bD5ffEE41947b4585a84BdA5a3d3DA6E
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.775Z]    = Contract: 0x34720e631A2C63E50b0B01f3DF4E94B21A24B6DC
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.775Z]    = Params: [ 0x22d491Bde2303f2f43325b2108D26f1eAbA1e32b ]
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.775Z]    = TxHash: 0x54fe5338b2c5cd1869f4beb3ad554549a80ef6314ea8dc0569a5a81721eb3128
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.775Z]    ✔ Transaction succeeded!
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.785Z] > Sending transaction: Controller.setContractProxy
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.785Z]    = Sender: 0xACa94ef8bD5ffEE41947b4585a84BdA5a3d3DA6E
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.785Z]    = Contract: 0x81e2b9f4e408c2A0417CCE7eBecCB3aeDd4603E2
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.785Z]    = Params: [ 0xe6876326c1291dfcbbd3864a6816d698cd591defc7aa2153d7f9c4c04016c89f,0xe2517eead1Bb7a34908336e6769a969C23535Ec7 ]
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.785Z]    = TxHash: 0x7431cd26284022f4eeb5bc5d048d27c7b13a628030080117aa5bed7e6d187224
[2024-09-09T19:44:26.786Z]    ✔ Transaction succeeded!

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