/* * Copyright (c) 2013, 2014 Conformal Systems LLC * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR * ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN * ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. */ // Package txstore provides an implementation of a transaction store for a // bitcoin wallet. Its primary purpose is to save transactions with // outputs spendable with wallet keys and transactions that are signed by // wallet keys in memory, handle spend tracking for newly-inserted // transactions, report the spendable balance from each unspent // transaction output, and finally to provide a means to serialize the // entire data structure to an io.Writer and deserialize from an io.Reader // (both of which are usually an os.File). // // Transaction outputs which are spendable by wallet keys are called // credits (because they credit to a wallet's total spendable balance) // and are modeled using the Credit structure. Transaction inputs which // spend previously-inserted credits are called debits (because they debit // from the wallet's spendable balance) and are modeled using the Debit // structure. // // Besides just saving transactions, bidirectional spend tracking is also // performed on each credit and debit. Unlike packages such as btcdb, // which only mark whether a transaction output is spent or unspent, this // package always records which transaction is responsible for debiting // (spending) any credit. Each debit also points back to the transaction // credit it spends. // // A significant amount of internal bookkeeping is used to improve the // performance of inserting transactions and querying commonly-needed // data. Most notably, all unspent credits may be iterated over without // including (and ignoring) spent credits. Another trick is to record // the total spendable amount delta as a result of all transactions within // a block, which is the total value of all credits (both spent and // unspent) minus the total value debited from previous transactions, for // every transaction in that block. This allows for the calculation of a // wallet's balance for any arbitrary number of confirmations without // needing to iterate over every unspent credit. // // Finally, this package records transaction insertion history (such as // the date a transaction was first received) and is able to create the // JSON reply structure for RPC calls such as listtransactions for any // saved transaction. // // To use the transaction store, a transaction must be first inserted // with InsertTx. After an insert, credits and debits may be attached to // the returned transaction record using the AddCredit and AddDebits // methods. // // Example use: // // // Create a new transaction store to hold two transactions. // s := txstore.New() // // // Insert a transaction belonging to some imaginary block at // // height 123. // b123 := &txstore.Block{Height: 123, Time: time.Now()} // r1, err := s.InsertTx(txA, b123) // if err != nil { // // handle error // } // // // Mark output 0 as being a non-change credit to this wallet. // c1o0, err := r1.AddCredit(0, false) // if err != nil { // // handle error // } // // // c1o0 (credit 1 output 0) is inserted unspent. // fmt.Println(c1o0.Spent()) // Prints "false" // fmt.Println(s.Balance(1, 123)) // Prints amount of txA output 0. // // // Insert a second transaction at some imaginary block height // // 321. // b321 := &txstore.Block{Height: 321, Time: time.Now()} // r2, err := s.InsertTx(txB, b321) // if err != nil { // // handle error // } // // // Mark r2 as debiting from record 1's 0th credit. // d2, err := r2.AddDebits([]txstore.Credit{c1o0}) // if err != nil { // // handle error // } // // // Spend tracking and the balances are updated accordingly. // fmt.Println(c1o0.Spent()) // Prints "true" // fmt.Println(s.Balance(1, 321)) // Prints "0 BTC" // fmt.Println(d2.InputAmount()) // Prints amount of txA output 0. package txstore