Also, the loops which only remove a single element and break or return
don't need the extra logic for iteration since they don't continue
iteration after removal.
It is not safe to remove an item from a container/list while iterating the
list without first saving the next pointer since removing the item nils
the internal list element's next pointer.
Rather than showing all errors from ProcessTransaction as a failure, check
if the error is a TxRuleError meaning the transaction was rejected as
opposed to something actually going wrong and log it accordingly.
Rather than showing all errors from ProcessBlock as a failure, check if
the error is a RuleError meaning the block was rejected as opposed to
something actually going wrong and log it accordingly.
This utility is useful to programatically identify checkpoint candidates
which a developer can then do a more in-depth analysis on to choose an
appropriate checkpoint.
This commit is a rather large one which implements transaction pool and
relay according to the protocol rules of the reference implementation.
It makes use of btcchain to ensure the transactions are valid for the
block chain and includes several stricter checks which determine if they
are "standard" or not before admitting them into the pool and relaying
them.
There are still a few TODOs around the more strict rules which determine
which transactions are willing to be mined, but the core checks which
are imperative (everything except the all of the "standard" checks really)
to operate as a good citizen on the bitcoin network are in place.
We originally wanted to also not fetch orphan parents in this commit, however,
I have discovered that if you are doing a main sync from a peer, if it
sends you an orphan you must fetch it, else you ahven't fetched
everything it told you about and thus it will nto send you end more invs
from the main sync.
So we always fetch orphan parents, but we still don't fetch from
non-sync peers (all invs from them will be unsolicited). Seems to fix some hangs
with multiple peers.
The "official" regression test tool intentionally sends some unrequested
duplicate blocks to ensure the chain handling code does not fail when
trying to insert them. This commit adds an exception to the block manager
which typically disconnects peers that send unrequested blocks (they are
misbehaving if they do this) for regression test mode.
Really, it would be nice to pass an interface{} into chain to be given
to us when the callback calls, it would avoid the awkward sidchanneling
through the map and should actually be more efffieint (pointer passing >
hashtable insert, lookup, then remove).
