This commit adds a new function named SerializeSize to the public API for
MsgBlock which can be used to determine how many bytes the serialized data would
take without having to actually serialize it. In addition, it makes the
exported BlockVersion an untyped constant as well as changes the block and
tx versions to a signed integer to more closely match the protocol.
Finally, this commit also adds tests for the new function.
The following benchmark shows the difference between using the new
function to get the serialize size for a typical block and serializing
into a temporary buffer and taking the length of it:
Bufffer: BenchmarkBlockSerializeSizeBuffer 200000 27050 ns/op
New: BenchmarkBlockSerializeSizeNew 100000000 34 ns/op
Closes#19.
There are certain cases such as getblocktemplate which allow external
callers to be repsonsible for creating their own coinbase to replace the
generated one. By allowing the pay address to be nil in such cases, the
need to specify mining addresses via --miningaddr can be avoided thereby
leaving the payment address management up to the caller.
This commit adds a new result type for the getblocktemplate RPC which
provides the fields as defined by BIP0022. The extension fields defined
by BIP0023 are not included yet.
ok @jcvernaleo
BIP0022 defines optional fields in a getblocktemplate request for long
polling and template tweaking.
In addition, for template tweaking, there are two fields, sigoplimit and
sizelimit, which are atypical in that they are allowed to be either
booleans or numeric. This requires the fields to be represented as
interfaces which means any code making use of the struct will need to use
type assertions or a type switch.
This commit updates GetBlockTemplateCmd accordingly.
ok @jcvernaleo
This commit modifies the RPC server such that all handlers now receive a
channel which will be notified when a client disconnects. This
notification can then be used to stop long-running operations early when a
client disconnects.
This capability was already present for websocket clients, but this commit
exposes it to standard HTTP clients as well.
This commit modifies the error return type for errors during script
validation to use the RuleError so they are consistent with the rest of
the errors. This also helps the calling code differentiate blocks
rejected due to script parsing and validation errors as opposed to
internal issues such as inability to read from the disk.
To accomplish this, two new two new RuleErrors, ErrScriptMalformed and
ErrScriptValidation, have been added.
Also, the errors for script parsing issues and script validation errors
have been improved to include both transaction hashes and indexes involved
in the validation effort. Previously script parsing issues had almost no
additional information as to which transaction input/outputs the failing
script came from.
This commit adds a new behavior flag, BFNoPoWCheck which allows the caller
to indicate the check which ensures a block hashes to a value less than
required target should not be performed.
This commit change the ProcessBlock function to accept a new type named
BehaviorFlags in place of the current fastAdd parameter.
This has been done to pave the way for adding more control over the checks
that are performed such as avoiding the proof of work checks which will be
in an upcoming commit. A bitmask was chosen because it will allow the
ProcessBlock API to remain a little more stable since new flag additions
that change the behavior are only likely to be used by new code because
adding flags does not change the existing behavior.
ok @jrick
Now that the ProcessBlock function returns whether or not the block was an
orphan, the code which requests the parent blocks from the peer that sent
them has been moved to directly after the call to it.
This makes the handling more obvious and has allowed removal of the
blockPeer map which was kept so the notification handler could identify
which peer to request the blocks from.
ok @jrick
This commit changes the way that orphan blocks are identified by adding a
new boolean return value on ProcessBlock and removing the notification for
NTOrphanBlock.
This allows the calling code to identify orphan blocks immediately instead
of having to setup a seperate callback handler and implementing some type
of state tracking. This, in turn, allows cleaner code for handling them.
In addition, the tests have been updated for the new function signature
and also now check that each block is or is not an orphan as expected
which makes the tests more robust.
ok @jrick
This commit changes the RuleError type to a struct which consists of an
error code and human-readable description.
From a usage perspective, existing code should not break since type
asserting an error to a RuleError still works in the same manner. The
difference is the caller can now take that type asserted RuleError and
access the .ErrorCode field on it to programmatically identify the
specific rule that was violated.
ok @jrick
This reasons for this change follow:
- All instances of the same key should be consistent amongst the commands
and returns
- Output indices can't be negative, so rather than adding more code to
check for a negative after unmarshal, just allow the unmarshal to weed
out negatives
ok @jcvernaleo
While here, fix a bug found through testing. Register will now return
ErrDuplicateNet if the caller attempts to register any of the standard
network parameters provided by this package.
ok @davecgh
This value matches testnet and mainnet and makes more sense because it
allows way more coins to be generated which is useful during simulation
testing.
NOTE: this will invalidate existing simnet chains, but since they
are only intended to be short lived for the duration of a simulation test,
this is a non-issue.
Now that btcd support CPU mining, update the getgenerate, setgenerate,
gethashespersec, and getmininginfo RPC handlers to return the appropriate
information.
Also, remove the various extra help addenda about btcd not supporting
mining since it is no longer true.
