PauseMandates

PauseMandates is a reform mandate that can temporarily disable (pause) or re-enable (restart) mandates at specific positions within governance flows. It is configured with a fixed set of flow and mandate positions to manage.

Overview

This mandate is useful for emergency governance — pausing a compromised or malfunctioning mandate without permanently removing it. When restarted, the mandate is re-adopted with exactly the same configuration and conditions it had before, and its position in the flow is restored.

Configuration

When adopting a PauseMandates instance, the following parameters are required:

1. indexFlow (uint8[]): The flow indices of the mandates to manage.
2. indexMandate (uint8[]): The position within each flow of the mandate to manage. indexMandate[i] corresponds to indexFlow[i].

Both arrays must be the same length.

Usage

Proposing an Action

When calling the mandate, one parameter must be provided:

1. paused (bool):
   • true — Pause (revoke) the mandates at the configured positions.
   • false — Restart (re-adopt) the mandates at the configured positions.

Execution Flow

When pausing (paused = true):

1. Finds the mandate IDs at each configured flow position. Skips any invalid or zero-value positions silently.
2. Generates a revokeMandate call for each valid mandate found.

When restarting (paused = false):

1. Finds the mandate IDs at each configured position.
2. For each mandate that is currently inactive, retrieves its original nameDescription, config, and conditions from the contract.
3. Generates an adoptMandate call to re-install it.
4. Generates an editFlowByIndex call to restore its position in the flow.
5. Already-active mandates are skipped silently.

Technical Specifications

Functions

initializeMandate

function initializeMandate(...) public override

• Validates that indexFlow and indexMandate are the same length.
• Sets input parameters to (bool paused).

handleRequest

function handleRequest(...) public view override returns (...)

• Delegates to _pauseMandates or _restartMandates based on the input.

Error Conditions

• "Array length mismatch" — Raised during initialization if indexFlow and indexMandate have different lengths.

Current Deployments

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