This utility is a relic from initial development before it was possible to
request blocks and transactions via RPC. The correct way to do this now
is by using RPC since that works while btcd is operating unlike the
utility which requires an exclusive lock on the database.
Currently, the reference client bans peers that send alerts not signed
with its key. We could verify against their key, but since the
reference client developers are currently unwilling to support other
implementations' alert messages, we will not relay theirs.
This commit contains the entire btcdb repository along with several
changes needed to move all of the files into the database directory in
order to prepare it for merging. This does NOT update btcd or any of the
other packages to use the new location as that will be done separately.
- All import paths in the old btcdb test files have been changed to the
new location
- All references to btcdb as the package name have been chagned to
database
- The coveralls badge has been removed since it unfortunately doesn't
support coverage of sub-packages
This is ongoing work toward #214.
This was previously hard-coded to zero instead of using the offset
provided by the median time source which takes time samples from the other
connected nodes.
Only two operations are performed with this data structure: adding to
the back and removing from the front. Because middle inserts and
deletions are never needed, a linked list results in overall worse
performance due to an extra allocation for each element's node, worse
cache locality, and the runtime cost of boxing/unboxing each item
during accesses.
On top of the performance gains, a slice is more type safe as it is a
true generic data structure making it is impossible to insert or
access an element with the wrong type.
The comment for the RPC listen section in the sample-btcd.conf incorrectly
claimed that the default for the RPC server listener is to listen on all
interfaces by default. In reality, it only listens on localhost for IPv4
and IPv6 by default.
Closes#208.
The mempool's MaybeAcceptTransaction methods have also been modified
to return a slice of transaction hashes referenced by the transaction
inputs which are unknown (totally spent or never seen). While this is
currently used to include the first hash in a ProcessTransaction error
message if inserting orphans is not allowed, it may also be used in
the future to request orphan transactions from peers.
This commit modifies the getblocktemplate RPC to correctly handle the
curtime field.
Currently, the RPC server will refuse to serve a block template if the
current time is before the minimum allowed time for a block even though
the real generated block template already accounted for it.
This consists of three changes:
- Remove the unnecessary and incorrect check in the RPC invocation for the
current time against the min required time since it is already handled
properly by the block template generation.
- Expose the network time source to the RPC work state and use the
adjusted time for checking against the maximum allowed time instead of
the current time.
- Set the returned RPC result curtime field to the time of the generated
block header.
Fixes#209.
This commit modifies the creation of RPC results to ignore errors in
script disassembly since they already contain the error string inline and
the RPC results must still be generated regardless.
This was already done in the decodescript RPC, however the same thing was
not being done in the higher level verbose transaction results. This
applies to both the createrawtransaction and decoderawtransaction RPCs.
Also, since this was the only thing that could error within those
functions, the error returns and caller checking of now non-existent
errors have been removed.
Fixes#210.
This commit introduces a new flag, --notls, which can be used to disable
TLS for the RPC server. However, the flag can only be used when the RPC
server is bound to localhost interfaces. This is intended to prevent the
situation where someone decides they want to expose the RPC server to the
web for remote management/access, but forgot they have TLS disabled.
