Rather than updating the new chain state with the hash and height of the
block that was just processed, query the database for the best block.
This is needed because the block that was just processed might be a side
chain block or have caused a reorg.
This commit introduces a chain state that is updated as blocks are
processed into the block chain instance associated with the block manager.
This has been done because btcchain is currently not safe for concurrent
access and the block manager is typically quite busy processing block and
inventory. This approach allows fast access to most chain information in
a concurrent safe fashion.
Rather than doing a lot of if/else in the configuration load for btcctl,
set the default for the RPC server to localhost and the RPC cert to the
btcd cert, then override them as needed depending on the --wallet and
--testnet flags.
The code was not resetting the counters when logging a message, so the
stats kept increasing rather than showing the number of items processed
since the last log message.
This has been resolved by copying the log function directly from btcd and
modifying it slightly to work with the importer.
blockImporter now has these new properties:
txProcessed - number of transactions processed by the importer
lastHeight - height of the last imported block
lastBlockTime - block time of the last imported block
lastLogTime - last timestamp of when a progress message was shown
the p/progress option in addblocks now indicates how often you want the progress message to appear
This commit removes the word "only" from the non-standard transaction
error message when the number of items on the stack does not match the
number of expected items.
This was suggested by @mbelshe.
This commit updates the install command under the Installation section in
README.md to include all subdirectories thereby including the utilities
such as addblock and btcctl.
Rather than having a separate query channel for the block manager, use the
same channel so the block handler acts as a pure FIFO queue. This
prevents possible starvation of query related messages.
ok @owainga
This change modifies the RPC server's notifiation manager from a
struct with requests, protected by a mutux, to two goroutines. The
first maintains a queue of all notifications and control requests
(registering/unregistering notifications), while the second reads from
the queue and processes notifications and requests one at a time.
Previously, to prevent slowing down block and mempool processing, each
notification would be handled by spawning a new goroutine. This lead
to cases where notifications would end up being sent to clients in a
different order than they were created. Adding a queue keeps the
order of notifications originating from the same goroutine, while also
not slowing down processing while waiting for notifications to be
processed and sent.
ok @davecgh
This mirrors a recent change in the reference implementation. Since the
vast majority of the network still uses it and transactions which aren't
considered standard won't be relayed, the rules for standard transactions
need to be kept consistent.
Ideally this should be handled via floating fees, but we're rather limited
until we have miner support and a larger network share so the probability
of a transaction being relayed and confirmed is high.
Closes#100.
ok @owainga
This commit simply alphabetizes the subsystem logger variables, map, and
use switch so the order in the code is consistent with the sorted output
displayed when using --debuglevel.
The debuglevel parameter has accepted subsystems in additional to an
overall level for quite some time, but the sample config file was not
updated to reflect that.
This commit updates the sample config file accordingly.
This commit changes the websocket client code to use a mutex for
disconnect since it's theoretically possible a non-blocking select on the
quit channel could fall through from two different goroutines thus causing
a second call to close.
ok @jrick.
This change improves the mechanism by which btcd notifies a websocket
client of transaction relating to watched address and unspent outputs
in the following ways:
1. The old processedtx notification has been replaced with the new
recvtx notification. This notification, rather than parsing out
details used by wallet clients, sends the serialized transaction
(as hexadecimal) and any block details (if mined) if any transaction
output sends to one of the websocket client's watched addresses.
2. The old txspent notification has been replaced with the new
redeemingtx notification. This notification, rather than parsing
out details used by wallet clients, sends the serialized transaction
(as hexadecimal) and any block details (if mined) if any transaction
input spends a watched output.
3. When processing notifications for transaction outputs, if any output
spends to a client's watched address, a corresponding spent request
is automatically registered.
4. Transaction notifications originating from mempool now include both
transaction inputs and outputs, rather than only processing
5. When processing notifications for transaction inputs, a client's
output spent request is only removed if the transaction being
processed has also been mined into a block. In combination with the
4th change, this results in two redeemingtx notifications for
transactions which first appear in mempool and are subsequently mined
into a block.
This changes the implementation of the sendrawtransaction RPC handler
to match bitcoind behavior by always returning a rejection error for
any error processing or accepting the tx by the mempool. Previously,
if the tx was rejected for a rule error rather than an actual failure,
a client would still receive the tx sha as a result with no error.
This commit makes use of the new btcscript.HasCanonicalPushes to enforce
canonical data pushes for transactions that are considered standard.
A canonical data push is one where the fewest number of bytes possible to
encode the size of the data being pushed is used. This includes using the
small integer opcodes for single byte data that can be represented
directly.
This commit increases the block priority size to 50000 and the max
standard tx size to 100k. This matches relatively recent changes in the
reference implementation. The max block size was also increased to
750000, but since btcd does not currently create blocks, there is no
constant for it. That constant will likely be added as a part of the
getwork implementation since it requires block creation.
Closes#71.
Previously the websocket notifications for addresses were limited to
pay-to-pubkey-hash only. This commit removes that restriction so
all btcutil.Address types are supported. This includes pay-to-pubkey,
pay-to-pubkey-hash, and pay-to-script-hash.
When a spent notification and address notification is removed, the
tracking entry in the client which is used to track what to remove on
shutdown needs to be removed as well.
This commit refactors the entire websocket client code to resolve several
issues with the previous implementation. Note that this commit does not
change the public API for websockets. It only consists of internal
improvements.
The following is the major issues which have been addressed:
- A slow websocket client could impede notifications to all clients
- Long-running operations such as rescans would block all other requests
until it had completed
- The above two points taken together could lead to apparant hangs since
the client doing the rescan would eventually run out of channel buffer
and block the entire group of clients until the rescan completed
- Disconnecting a websocket during certain operations could lead to a hang
- Stopping the rpc server with operations under way could lead to a hang
- There were no limits to the number of websocket clients that could
connect
The following is a summary of the major changes:
- The websocket code has been split into two entities: a
connection/notification manager and a websocket client
- The new connection/notification manager acts as the entry point from
the rest of the subsystems to feed data which potentially needs to
notify clients
- Each websocket client now has its own instance of the new websocket
client type which controls its own lifecycle
- The data flow has been completely redesigned to closely resemble the
peer data flow
- Each websocket now has its own long-lived goroutines for input, output,
and queuing of notifications
- Notifications use the new notification queue goroutine along with
queueing to ensure they dont't block on stalled or slow peers
- There is a new infrastructure for asynchronously executing long-running
commands such as a rescan while still allowing the faster operations to
continue to be serviced by the same client
- Since long-running operations now run asynchronously, they have been
limited to one at a time
- Added a limit of 10 websocket clients. This is hard coded for now, but
will be made configurable in the future
Taken together these changes make the code far easier to reason about and
update as well solve the aforementioned issues.
Further optimizations to improve performance are possible in regards to
the way the connection/notification manager works, however this commit
already contains a ton of changes, so they are being left for another
time.
