// 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 btcchain import ( "github.com/conformal/btcwire" ) // BlockLocator is used to help locate a specific block. The algorithm for // building the block locator is to add the hashes in reverse order until // the genesis block is reached. In order to keep the list of locator hashes // to a reasonable number of entries, first the most recent previous 10 block // hashes are added, then the step is doubled each loop iteration to // exponentially decrease the number of hashes as a function of the distance // from the block being located. // // For example, assume you have a block chain with a side chain as depicted // below: // genesis -> 1 -> 2 -> ... -> 15 -> 16 -> 17 -> 18 // \-> 16a -> 17a // // The block locator for block 17a would be the hashes of blocks: // [17a 16a 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 6 2 genesis] type BlockLocator []*btcwire.ShaHash // BlockLocatorFromHash returns a block locator for the passed block hash. // See BlockLocator for details on the algotirhm used to create a block locator. // // In addition to the general algorithm referenced above, there are a couple of // special cases which are handled: // // - If the genesis hash is passed, there are no previous hashes to add and // therefore the block locator will only consist of the genesis hash // - If the passed hash is not currently known, the block locator will only // consist of the passed hash func (b *BlockChain) BlockLocatorFromHash(hash *btcwire.ShaHash) BlockLocator { // The locator contains the requested hash at the very least. locator := make(BlockLocator, 0, btcwire.MaxBlockLocatorsPerMsg) locator = append(locator, hash) // Nothing more to do if a locator for the genesis hash was requested. if hash.IsEqual(b.netParams.GenesisHash) { return locator } // Attempt to find the height of the block that corresponds to the // passed hash, and if it's on a side chain, also find the height at // which it forks from the main chain. blockHeight := int64(-1) forkHeight := int64(-1) node, exists := b.index[*hash] if !exists { // Try to look up the height for passed block hash. Assume an // error means it doesn't exist and just return the locator for // the block itself. block, err := b.db.FetchBlockBySha(hash) if err != nil { return locator } blockHeight = block.Height() } else { blockHeight = node.height // Find the height at which this node forks from the main chain // if the node is on a side chain. if !node.inMainChain { for n := node; n.parent != nil; n = n.parent { if n.inMainChain { forkHeight = n.height break } } } } // Generate the block locators according to the algorithm described in // in the BlockLocator comment and make sure to leave room for the // final genesis hash. iterNode := node increment := int64(1) for len(locator) < btcwire.MaxBlockLocatorsPerMsg-1 { // Once there are 10 locators, exponentially increase the // distance between each block locator. if len(locator) > 10 { increment *= 2 } blockHeight -= increment if blockHeight < 1 { break } // As long as this is still on the side chain, walk backwards // along the side chain nodes to each block height. if forkHeight != -1 && blockHeight > forkHeight { // Intentionally use parent field instead of the // getPrevNodeFromNode function since we don't want to // dynamically load nodes when building block locators. // Side chain blocks should always be in memory already, // and if they aren't for some reason it's ok to skip // them. for iterNode != nil && blockHeight > iterNode.height { iterNode = iterNode.parent } if iterNode != nil && iterNode.height == blockHeight { locator = append(locator, iterNode.hash) } continue } // The desired block height is in the main chain, so look it up // from the main chain database. h, err := b.db.FetchBlockShaByHeight(blockHeight) if err != nil { // This shouldn't happen and it's ok to ignore block // locators, so just continue to the next one. log.Warnf("Lookup of known valid height failed %v", blockHeight) continue } locator = append(locator, h) } // Append the appropriate genesis block. locator = append(locator, b.netParams.GenesisHash) return locator } // LatestBlockLocator returns a block locator for the latest known tip of the // main (best) chain. func (b *BlockChain) LatestBlockLocator() (BlockLocator, error) { // Lookup the latest main chain hash if the best chain hasn't been set // yet. if b.bestChain == nil { // Get the latest block hash for the main chain from the // database. hash, _, err := b.db.NewestSha() if err != nil { return nil, err } return b.BlockLocatorFromHash(hash), nil } // The best chain is set, so use its hash. return b.BlockLocatorFromHash(b.bestChain.hash), nil }