lbcd/blockchain/example_test.go
Dave Collins b69a849114 Import btcchain repo into blockchain directory.
This commit contains the entire btcchain repository along with several
changes needed to move all of the files into the blockchain 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 btcchain test files have been changed to
  the new location
- All references to btcchain as the package name have been changed to
  blockchain
2015-01-30 15:49:59 -06:00

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// Copyright (c) 2014 Conformal Systems LLC.
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package blockchain_test
import (
"fmt"
"math/big"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/blockchain"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database"
_ "github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database/memdb"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcnet"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcutil"
)
// This example demonstrates how to create a new chain instance and use
// ProcessBlock to attempt to attempt add a block to the chain. As the package
// overview documentation describes, this includes all of the Bitcoin consensus
// rules. This example intentionally attempts to insert a duplicate genesis
// block to illustrate how an invalid block is handled.
func ExampleBlockChain_ProcessBlock() {
// Create a new database to store the accepted blocks into. Typically
// this would be opening an existing database and would not use memdb
// which is a memory-only database backend, but we create a new db
// here so this is a complete working example.
db, err := database.CreateDB("memdb")
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to create database: %v\n", err)
return
}
defer db.Close()
// Insert the main network genesis block. This is part of the initial
// database setup. Like above, this typically would not be needed when
// opening an existing database.
genesisBlock := btcutil.NewBlock(btcnet.MainNetParams.GenesisBlock)
_, err = db.InsertBlock(genesisBlock)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to insert genesis block: %v\n", err)
return
}
// Create a new BlockChain instance using the underlying database for
// the main bitcoin network and ignore notifications.
chain := blockchain.New(db, &btcnet.MainNetParams, nil)
// Create a new median time source that is required by the upcoming
// call to ProcessBlock. Ordinarily this would also add time values
// obtained from other peers on the network so the local time is
// adjusted to be in agreement with other peers.
timeSource := blockchain.NewMedianTime()
// Process a block. For this example, we are going to intentionally
// cause an error by trying to process the genesis block which already
// exists.
isOrphan, err := chain.ProcessBlock(genesisBlock, timeSource, blockchain.BFNone)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to process block: %v\n", err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Block accepted. Is it an orphan?: %v", isOrphan)
// Output:
// Failed to process block: already have block 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
}
// This example demonstrates how to convert the compact "bits" in a block header
// which represent the target difficulty to a big integer and display it using
// the typical hex notation.
func ExampleCompactToBig() {
// Convert the bits from block 300000 in the main block chain.
bits := uint32(419465580)
targetDifficulty := blockchain.CompactToBig(bits)
// Display it in hex.
fmt.Printf("%064x\n", targetDifficulty.Bytes())
// Output:
// 0000000000000000896c00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
}
// This example demonstrates how to convert a target difficulty into the compact
// "bits" in a block header which represent that target difficulty .
func ExampleBigToCompact() {
// Convert the target difficulty from block 300000 in the main block
// chain to compact form.
t := "0000000000000000896c00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
targetDifficulty, success := new(big.Int).SetString(t, 16)
if !success {
fmt.Println("invalid target difficulty")
return
}
bits := blockchain.BigToCompact(targetDifficulty)
fmt.Println(bits)
// Output:
// 419465580
}