124 lines
4 KiB
Go
124 lines
4 KiB
Go
// Copyright (c) 2013-2015 The btcsuite developers
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// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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package wire
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import (
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"bytes"
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"io"
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"time"
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)
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// BlockVersion is the current latest supported block version.
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const BlockVersion = 3
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// Version 4 bytes + Timestamp 4 bytes + Bits 4 bytes + Nonce 4 bytes +
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// PrevBlock and MerkleRoot hashes.
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const MaxBlockHeaderPayload = 16 + (HashSize * 2)
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// BlockHeader defines information about a block and is used in the bitcoin
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// block (MsgBlock) and headers (MsgHeaders) messages.
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type BlockHeader struct {
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// Version of the block. This is not the same as the protocol version.
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Version int32
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// Hash of the previous block in the block chain.
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PrevBlock ShaHash
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// Merkle tree reference to hash of all transactions for the block.
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MerkleRoot ShaHash
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// Time the block was created. This is, unfortunately, encoded as a
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// uint32 on the wire and therefore is limited to 2106.
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Timestamp time.Time
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// Difficulty target for the block.
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Bits uint32
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// Nonce used to generate the block.
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Nonce uint32
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}
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// blockHeaderLen is a constant that represents the number of bytes for a block
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// header.
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const blockHeaderLen = 80
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// BlockSha computes the block identifier hash for the given block header.
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func (h *BlockHeader) BlockSha() ShaHash {
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// Encode the header and double sha256 everything prior to the number of
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// transactions. Ignore the error returns since there is no way the
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// encode could fail except being out of memory which would cause a
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// run-time panic.
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var buf bytes.Buffer
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_ = writeBlockHeader(&buf, 0, h)
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return DoubleSha256SH(buf.Bytes())
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}
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// Deserialize decodes a block header from r into the receiver using a format
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// that is suitable for long-term storage such as a database while respecting
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// the Version field.
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func (h *BlockHeader) Deserialize(r io.Reader) error {
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// At the current time, there is no difference between the wire encoding
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// at protocol version 0 and the stable long-term storage format. As
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// a result, make use of readBlockHeader.
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return readBlockHeader(r, 0, h)
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}
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// Serialize encodes a block header from r into the receiver using a format
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// that is suitable for long-term storage such as a database while respecting
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// the Version field.
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func (h *BlockHeader) Serialize(w io.Writer) error {
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// At the current time, there is no difference between the wire encoding
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// at protocol version 0 and the stable long-term storage format. As
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// a result, make use of writeBlockHeader.
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return writeBlockHeader(w, 0, h)
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}
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// NewBlockHeader returns a new BlockHeader using the provided previous block
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// hash, merkle root hash, difficulty bits, and nonce used to generate the
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// block with defaults for the remaining fields.
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func NewBlockHeader(prevHash *ShaHash, merkleRootHash *ShaHash, bits uint32,
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nonce uint32) *BlockHeader {
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// Limit the timestamp to one second precision since the protocol
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// doesn't support better.
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return &BlockHeader{
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Version: BlockVersion,
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PrevBlock: *prevHash,
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MerkleRoot: *merkleRootHash,
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Timestamp: time.Unix(time.Now().Unix(), 0),
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Bits: bits,
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Nonce: nonce,
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}
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}
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// readBlockHeader reads a bitcoin block header from r. See Deserialize for
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// decoding block headers stored to disk, such as in a database, as opposed to
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// decoding from the wire.
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func readBlockHeader(r io.Reader, pver uint32, bh *BlockHeader) error {
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var sec uint32
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err := readElements(r, &bh.Version, &bh.PrevBlock, &bh.MerkleRoot, &sec,
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&bh.Bits, &bh.Nonce)
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if err != nil {
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return err
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}
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bh.Timestamp = time.Unix(int64(sec), 0)
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return nil
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}
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// writeBlockHeader writes a bitcoin block header to w. See Serialize for
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// encoding block headers to be stored to disk, such as in a database, as
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// opposed to encoding for the wire.
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func writeBlockHeader(w io.Writer, pver uint32, bh *BlockHeader) error {
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sec := uint32(bh.Timestamp.Unix())
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err := writeElements(w, bh.Version, &bh.PrevBlock, &bh.MerkleRoot,
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sec, bh.Bits, bh.Nonce)
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if err != nil {
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return err
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}
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return nil
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}
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