The cfilter BIP specifies that the filter type is a uint8. The
current code encodes it correctly on the wire, but everywhere else,
it's treated as a boolean (false for basic filter, true for
extended). This commit corrects that to account for possible
additional filter types in the future. All package changes are
done in one commit as they're all interdependent. The following
packages are updated:
* blockchain/indexers
* btcjson
* peer
* wire
* main (server.go and rpcserver.go)
The block index now tracks the set of dirty block nodes with status
changes that haven't been persisted and flushes the changes to the DB
at the appropriate times.
Currently only the blocks in the active chain are loaded into the
block index on initialization. This instead iterates over the entire
block index bucket in LevelDB and loads all nodes.
The bucket contains block headers keyed by the block height encoded as
big-endian concatenated with the block hash. This allows block headers
to be fetched from the DB in height order with a cursor.
These method allows safe concurrent access to reading and modifying
block node statuses. When block statuses get persisted in a later
change, the setter methods can be used to mark block nodes as dirty.
Each node in the block index records some flags about its validation
state. This is just stored in memory for now, but can save effort if
attempting to reconnect a block that failed validation or was
disconnected.
This was only used to test block proposals, which has been changed to
instead use CheckConnectBlockTemplate. The flag complicated the
implementation of some chain processing routines and would be
difficult to implement with headers-first syncing.
This renames CheckConnectBlock to CheckConnectBlockTemplate and
modifies it to be easily consumable by the getblocktemplate RPC
handler. Performs full block validation now instead of partial
validation.
