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indexers: Implement optional tx/address indexes. This introduces a new indexing infrastructure for supporting optional indexes using the new database and blockchain infrastructure along with two concrete indexer implementations which provide both a transaction-by-hash and a transaction-by-address index. The new infrastructure is mostly separated into a package named indexers which is housed under the blockchain package. In order to support this, a new interface named IndexManager has been introduced in the blockchain package which provides methods to be notified when the chain has been initialized and when blocks are connected and disconnected from the main chain. A concrete implementation of an index manager is provided by the new indexers package. The new indexers package also provides a new interface named Indexer which allows the index manager to manage concrete index implementations which conform to the interface. The following is high level overview of the main index infrastructure changes: - Define a new IndexManager interface in the blockchain package and modify the package to make use of the interface when specified - Create a new indexers package - Provides an Index interface which allows concrete indexes to plugin to an index manager - Provides a concrete IndexManager implementation - Handles the lifecycle of all indexes it manages - Tracks the index tips - Handles catching up disabled indexes that have been reenabled - Handles reorgs while the index was disabled - Invokes the appropriate methods for all managed indexes to allow them to index and deindex the blocks and transactions - Implement a transaction-by-hash index - Makes use of internal block IDs to save a significant amount of space and indexing costs over the old transaction index format - Implement a transaction-by-address index - Makes use of a leveling scheme in order to provide a good tradeoff between space required and indexing costs - Supports enabling and disabling indexes at will - Support the ability to drop indexes if they are no longer desired The following is an overview of the btcd changes: - Add a new index logging subsystem - Add new options --txindex and --addrindex in order to enable the optional indexes - NOTE: The transaction index will automatically be enabled when the address index is enabled because it depends on it - Add new options --droptxindex and --dropaddrindex to allow the indexes to be removed - NOTE: The address index will also be removed when the transaction index is dropped because it depends on it - Update getrawtransactions RPC to make use of the transaction index - Reimplement the searchrawtransaction RPC that makes use of the address index - Update sample-btcd.conf to include sample usage for the new optional index flags
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indexers
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indexers: Implement optional tx/address indexes. This introduces a new indexing infrastructure for supporting optional indexes using the new database and blockchain infrastructure along with two concrete indexer implementations which provide both a transaction-by-hash and a transaction-by-address index. The new infrastructure is mostly separated into a package named indexers which is housed under the blockchain package. In order to support this, a new interface named IndexManager has been introduced in the blockchain package which provides methods to be notified when the chain has been initialized and when blocks are connected and disconnected from the main chain. A concrete implementation of an index manager is provided by the new indexers package. The new indexers package also provides a new interface named Indexer which allows the index manager to manage concrete index implementations which conform to the interface. The following is high level overview of the main index infrastructure changes: - Define a new IndexManager interface in the blockchain package and modify the package to make use of the interface when specified - Create a new indexers package - Provides an Index interface which allows concrete indexes to plugin to an index manager - Provides a concrete IndexManager implementation - Handles the lifecycle of all indexes it manages - Tracks the index tips - Handles catching up disabled indexes that have been reenabled - Handles reorgs while the index was disabled - Invokes the appropriate methods for all managed indexes to allow them to index and deindex the blocks and transactions - Implement a transaction-by-hash index - Makes use of internal block IDs to save a significant amount of space and indexing costs over the old transaction index format - Implement a transaction-by-address index - Makes use of a leveling scheme in order to provide a good tradeoff between space required and indexing costs - Supports enabling and disabling indexes at will - Support the ability to drop indexes if they are no longer desired The following is an overview of the btcd changes: - Add a new index logging subsystem - Add new options --txindex and --addrindex in order to enable the optional indexes - NOTE: The transaction index will automatically be enabled when the address index is enabled because it depends on it - Add new options --droptxindex and --dropaddrindex to allow the indexes to be removed - NOTE: The address index will also be removed when the transaction index is dropped because it depends on it - Update getrawtransactions RPC to make use of the transaction index - Reimplement the searchrawtransaction RPC that makes use of the address index - Update sample-btcd.conf to include sample usage for the new optional index flags
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Package indexers implements optional block chain indexes.
These indexes are typically used to enhance the amount of information available
via an RPC interface.
## Supported Indexers
- Transaction-by-hash (txbyhashidx) Index
- Creates a mapping from the hash of each transaction to the block that
contains it along with its offset and length within the serialized block
- Transaction-by-address (txbyaddridx) Index
- Creates a mapping from every address to all transactions which either credit
or debit the address
- Requires the transaction-by-hash index
## Installation
```bash
$ go get -u github.com/btcsuite/btcd/blockchain/indexers
```
## License
Package indexers is licensed under the [copyfree](http://copyfree.org) ISC
License.
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