If we don't hear from a peer for 5 minutes, we disconnect them. To keep
traffic flowing we send a ping every 2 minutes if we have not send any
other message that should get a reply.
This refactors the wallet notification code to reverse the order of
how notification contexts are stored. Before, watched addresses and
outpoints were used as keys, with a special reply channel as the
value. This channel was read from and replies were marshalled and
sent to the main wallet notification chan, but the goroutine handling
this marshalling never exited because the reply channel was never
closed (and couldn't have been, because there was no way to tell it
was handling notifications for any particular wallet).
Notification contexts are now primarily mapped by wallet notification
channels, and code to send the notifications send directly to the
wallet channel, with the previous goroutine reading the reply chan
properly closing.
The RPC code is also refactored with this change as well, to separate
it more from websocket code. Websocket JSON extensions are no longer
available to RPC clients.
While here, unbreak RPC. Previously, replies were never sent back.
This broke when I merged in my websocket code, as sends for the reply
channel in jsonRead blocked before a reader for the channel was
opened. A 3 liner could have fixed this, but doing a proper fix
(changing jsonRead so it did not use the reply channel as it is
unneeded for the standard RPC API) is preferred.
This change paves the way for running btcwallet on the same system without
having to change any settings. The well-known ports used by the
reference implementation (8332 mainnet, 18332 testnet) will be exposed by
the separate wallet process, which will in turn forward unknown requests
to btcd via websockets (on 8334/18334). This allows the wallet process to
ultimately provide a unified interface that exposes the same RPC-JSON API
as the reference implementation will maintaining wallet and chain
separation.
If we haven't handshaken with a peer don't send messages that are not
the handshake. Additionally don't queue up invs for sending, they'll
find out soon enough when they ask us what we know.
This change adds additional http listeners for websocket connections
on "/wallet". Websockets are used to provide asynchronous messaging
between wallet daemons (i.e. btcwallet) and btcd as they allow an easy
way for btcd to provide instant notifications (instead of a wallet
polling for updates) and multiple replies to a single request.
Standard RPC commands sent over a websocket connection are handled
just like RPC, returning the same results, the only difference being
that the connection is async. In cases where the standard RPC
commands fall short of wallet daemons requests, and to request
notifications for addresses and events, extension JSON methods are
used.
Multiple wallets can be connected to the same btcd, and replies to
websocket requests and notifications are properly routed back to the
original requesting wallet.
Due to the nature of turning a synchronous protocol asynchronous, it
is highly recommended to use the JSON id field as a type of sequence
number, so replies from btcd can be routed back to the proper handler
in a wallet daemon.
This commit modifies the address manager save code to exit when there is
an error creating the file used to store addresses. Previously the error
was only logged leaving the invalid file handle to be used later.
This commit adds code to properly respond to getdata requests for
transactions by fetching them from the transaction pool. Previously, we
advertised newly available transactions, but the code to respond with the
actual transaction was not written yet.
Also, fix a couple of comments and make the pushTxMsg and pushBlockMsg
functions consistent.
This commit is a first pass at improving the logging. It changes a number
of things to improve the readability of the output. The biggest addition
is message summaries for each message type when using the debug logging
level.
There is sitll more to do here such as allowing the level of each
subsystem to be independently specified, syslog support, and allowing the
logging level to be changed run-time.
This commit provides a new flag, --nocheckpoints, to disable built-in
checkpoints.
Checkpoints are used for a number of things such a ensuring
the block chain being downloaded matches various known good blocks,
allowing quicker verification on old blocks since scripts don't have to be
executed, and preventing forks from old blocks, etc.
The block manager handles inventory messges to know which inventory should
be requested based on what is already known and what is already in flight.
So, this commit adds logic to ask the transaction memory pool if the
transaction is already known before requesting it and tracks pending
requests into an in-flight transaction map owned by the block manager.
It also moves the transaction processing into the block manager so the
in-flight map can be properly cleaned.
