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peer: Refactor peer code into its own package. This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features refactored from peer.go. The following is an overview of the features the package provides: - Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin communications via the peer-to-peer protocol - Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages - Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol version negotiation - Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses - Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for notification when the message is actually sent - Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection and avoidance - Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect - Flexible peer configuration - Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.) - User agent name and version - Bitcoin network - Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.) - Maximum supported protocol version - Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages - Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not specify the related flag to signal support - Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough - Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions - Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version - Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject messages - These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate filtering and address randomization - Full documentation with example usage - Test coverage In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package: - The server is responsible for all connection management including persistent peers and banning - Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node are registered - Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the callback registered with the peer Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part of this refactor: - Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects - Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful - Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel - Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases - Improve a few logging bits - Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
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peer
====
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peer: Refactor peer code into its own package. This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features refactored from peer.go. The following is an overview of the features the package provides: - Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin communications via the peer-to-peer protocol - Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages - Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol version negotiation - Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses - Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for notification when the message is actually sent - Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection and avoidance - Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect - Flexible peer configuration - Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.) - User agent name and version - Bitcoin network - Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.) - Maximum supported protocol version - Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages - Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not specify the related flag to signal support - Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough - Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions - Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version - Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject messages - These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate filtering and address randomization - Full documentation with example usage - Test coverage In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package: - The server is responsible for all connection management including persistent peers and banning - Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node are registered - Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the callback registered with the peer Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part of this refactor: - Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects - Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful - Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel - Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases - Improve a few logging bits - Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
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Package peer provides a common base for creating and managing bitcoin network
peers.
This package has intentionally been designed so it can be used as a standalone
package for any projects needing a full featured bitcoin peer base to build on.
peer: Refactor peer code into its own package. This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features refactored from peer.go. The following is an overview of the features the package provides: - Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin communications via the peer-to-peer protocol - Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages - Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol version negotiation - Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses - Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for notification when the message is actually sent - Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection and avoidance - Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect - Flexible peer configuration - Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.) - User agent name and version - Bitcoin network - Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.) - Maximum supported protocol version - Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages - Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not specify the related flag to signal support - Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough - Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions - Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version - Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject messages - These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate filtering and address randomization - Full documentation with example usage - Test coverage In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package: - The server is responsible for all connection management including persistent peers and banning - Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node are registered - Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the callback registered with the peer Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part of this refactor: - Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects - Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful - Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel - Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases - Improve a few logging bits - Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
2015-10-02 08:03:20 +02:00
## Overview
This package builds upon the wire package, which provides the fundamental
primitives necessary to speak the bitcoin wire protocol, in order to simplify
the process of creating fully functional peers. In essence, it provides a
common base for creating concurrent safe fully validating nodes, Simplified
Payment Verification (SPV) nodes, proxies, etc.
A quick overview of the major features peer provides are as follows:
- Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin
communications via the peer-to-peer protocol
- Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages
- Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol
version negotiation
- Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for
notification when the message is actually sent
- Flexible peer configuration
- Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for
incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as
they see fit (proxies, etc)
- User agent name and version
- Bitcoin network
- Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc)
- Maximum supported protocol version
- Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages
- Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection
and avoidance
- Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses
- Random nonce generation and self connection detection
- Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not
specify the related flag to signal support
- Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough
- Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions
- Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and
written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version
- Helper functions pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject
messages
- These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function,
but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate
filtering and address randomization
- Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect
- Comprehensive test coverage
peer: Refactor peer code into its own package. This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features refactored from peer.go. The following is an overview of the features the package provides: - Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin communications via the peer-to-peer protocol - Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages - Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol version negotiation - Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses - Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for notification when the message is actually sent - Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection and avoidance - Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect - Flexible peer configuration - Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.) - User agent name and version - Bitcoin network - Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.) - Maximum supported protocol version - Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages - Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not specify the related flag to signal support - Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough - Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions - Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version - Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject messages - These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate filtering and address randomization - Full documentation with example usage - Test coverage In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package: - The server is responsible for all connection management including persistent peers and banning - Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node are registered - Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the callback registered with the peer Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part of this refactor: - Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects - Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful - Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel - Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases - Improve a few logging bits - Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
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## Installation and Updating
peer: Refactor peer code into its own package. This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features refactored from peer.go. The following is an overview of the features the package provides: - Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin communications via the peer-to-peer protocol - Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages - Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol version negotiation - Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses - Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for notification when the message is actually sent - Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection and avoidance - Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect - Flexible peer configuration - Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.) - User agent name and version - Bitcoin network - Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.) - Maximum supported protocol version - Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages - Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not specify the related flag to signal support - Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough - Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions - Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version - Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject messages - These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate filtering and address randomization - Full documentation with example usage - Test coverage In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package: - The server is responsible for all connection management including persistent peers and banning - Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node are registered - Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the callback registered with the peer Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part of this refactor: - Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects - Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful - Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel - Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases - Improve a few logging bits - Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
2015-10-02 08:03:20 +02:00
```bash
$ go get -u github.com/btcsuite/btcd/peer
peer: Refactor peer code into its own package. This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features refactored from peer.go. The following is an overview of the features the package provides: - Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin communications via the peer-to-peer protocol - Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages - Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol version negotiation - Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses - Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for notification when the message is actually sent - Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection and avoidance - Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect - Flexible peer configuration - Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.) - User agent name and version - Bitcoin network - Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.) - Maximum supported protocol version - Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages - Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not specify the related flag to signal support - Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough - Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions - Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version - Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject messages - These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate filtering and address randomization - Full documentation with example usage - Test coverage In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package: - The server is responsible for all connection management including persistent peers and banning - Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node are registered - Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the callback registered with the peer Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part of this refactor: - Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects - Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful - Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel - Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases - Improve a few logging bits - Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
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```
## Examples
* [New Outbound Peer Example]
(https://godoc.org/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/peer#example-package--NewOutboundPeer)
Demonstrates the basic process for initializing and creating an outbound peer.
Peers negotiate by exchanging version and verack messages. For demonstration,
a simple handler for the version message is attached to the peer.
## License
Package peer is licensed under the [copyfree](http://copyfree.org) ISC License.