// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Conformal Systems LLC. // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package btcdb_test import ( "fmt" "github.com/conformal/btcdb" _ "github.com/conformal/btcdb/memdb" "github.com/conformal/btcnet" "github.com/conformal/btcutil" ) // This example demonstrates creating a new database and inserting the genesis // block into it. func ExampleCreateDB() { // Notice in these example imports that the memdb driver is loaded. // Ordinarily this would be whatever driver(s) your application // requires. // import ( // "github.com/conformal/btcdb" // _ "github.com/conformal/btcdb/memdb" // ) // Create a database and schedule it to be closed on exit. This example // uses a memory-only database to avoid needing to write anything to // the disk. Typically, you would specify a persistent database driver // such as "leveldb" and give it a database name as the second // parameter. db, err := btcdb.CreateDB("memdb") if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } defer db.Close() // Insert the main network genesis block. genesis := btcutil.NewBlock(btcnet.MainNetParams.GenesisBlock) newHeight, err := db.InsertBlock(genesis) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } fmt.Println("New height:", newHeight) // Output: // New height: 0 } // exampleLoadDb is used in the example to elide the setup code. func exampleLoadDb() (btcdb.Db, error) { db, err := btcdb.CreateDB("memdb") if err != nil { return nil, err } // Insert the main network genesis block. genesis := btcutil.NewBlock(btcnet.MainNetParams.GenesisBlock) _, err = db.InsertBlock(genesis) if err != nil { return nil, err } return db, err } // This example demonstrates querying the database for the most recent best // block height and hash. func ExampleDb_NewestSha() { // Load a database for the purposes of this example and schedule it to // be closed on exit. See the CreateDB example for more details on what // this step is doing. db, err := exampleLoadDb() if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } defer db.Close() latestHash, latestHeight, err := db.NewestSha() if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } fmt.Println("Latest hash:", latestHash) fmt.Println("Latest height:", latestHeight) // Output: // Latest hash: 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f // Latest height: 0 }