04da9f4834 [RPC] Update getrawtransaction interface (Amiti Uttarwar)
Pull request description:
- stop checking unspent UTXOs for a transaction when txindex is not enabled, as per conversation here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3220#issuecomment-377458383
- code contributed by sipa
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42ff30ec6 [Docs] add short documentation for /rest/blockhashbyheight (Jonas Schnelli)
579d418f7 [QA] add rest tests for /rest/blockhashbyheight/<HEIGHT>.<FORMAT> (Jonas Schnelli)
eb9ef04c4 REST: add "blockhashbyheight" call, fetch blockhash by height (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
Completes the REST interface for trivial block exploring by adding a call that allows to fetch the blockhash in the main chain by a given height.
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b9f226b41f rpc: Remove cs_main lock from blockToJSON and blockHeaderToJSON (João Barbosa)
343b98cbcd rpc: Specify chain tip instead of chain in GetDifficulty (João Barbosa)
54dc13b6a2 rpc: Fix SoftForkMajorityDesc and SoftForkDesc signatures (João Barbosa)
Pull request description:
Motivated by https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11913#discussion_r157798157, this pull makes `blockToJSON` and `blockheaderToJSON` free of `cs_main` locks.
Locking `cs_main` was required to access `chainActive` in order to check if the block was in the chain and to retrieve the next block index.
With the this approach, `CBlockIndex::GetAncestor()` is used in a way to check if the block belongs to the specified chain tip and, at the same time, get the next block index.
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This change:
* adds a length check to ParseHashStr, appropriate given its use to populate
a 256-bit number from a hex str.
* allows the caller to handle the failure, which allows for the more
appropriate JSONRPCError on failure in prioritisetransaction rpc
JSON calls do not use the raw data generated for
the .bin and .hex calls. By moving the raw data
creation into the .bin and .hex switch branches,
JSON calls become faster.
Now that the transaction index is updated asynchronously, in order to
preserve the current behavior of public interfaces, the code blocks
until the transaction index is caught up with the current state of the
blockchain.
1f45e21 scripted-diff: Convert 11 enums into scoped enums (C++11) (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Rationale (from Bjarne Stroustrup's ["C++11 FAQ"](http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#enum)):
>
> The enum classes ("new enums", "strong enums") address three problems with traditional C++ enumerations:
>
> * conventional enums implicitly convert to int, causing errors when someone does not want an enumeration to act as an integer.
> * conventional enums export their enumerators to the surrounding scope, causing name clashes.
> * the underlying type of an enum cannot be specified, causing confusion, compatibility problems, and makes forward declaration impossible.
>
> The new enums are "enum class" because they combine aspects of traditional enumerations (names values) with aspects of classes (scoped members and absence of conversions).
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A few "a->an" and "an->a".
"Shows, if the supplied default SOCKS5 proxy" -> "Shows if the supplied default SOCKS5 proxy". Change made on 3 occurrences.
"without fully understanding the ramification of a command" -> "without fully understanding the ramifications of a command".
Removed duplicate words such as "the the".
This patch makes several related changes:
* Changes the CCoinsView virtual methods (GetCoins, HaveCoins, ...)
to be COutPoint/Coin-based rather than txid/CCoins-based.
* Changes the chainstate db to a new incompatible format that is also
COutPoint/Coin based.
* Implements reconstruction code for hash_serialized_2.
* Adapts the coins_tests unit tests (thanks to Russell Yanofsky).
A side effect of the new CCoinsView model is that we can no longer
use the (unreliable) test for transaction outputs in the UTXO set
to determine whether we already have a particular transaction.
This makes the following changes:
* In undo data and the chainstate database, the transaction nVersion
field is removed from the data structures, always written as 0, and
ignored when reading.
* The definition of hash_serialized in gettxoutsetinfo is changed to no
longer incude the nVersion field. It is renamed to hash_serialized_2
to avoid confusion. The new definition also includes transaction
height and coinbase information, as this information was missing
before.
This depends on having a CHashVerifier-based undo data checksum
verifier.
Apart from changing the definition of serialized_hash, downgrading
after using this patch is supported, as no release ever used the value
of nVersion field in UTXO entries.
Remove the nType and nVersion as parameters to all serialization methods
and functions. There is only one place where it's read and has an impact
(in CAddress), and even there it does not impact any of the recursively
invoked serializers.
Instead, the few places that need nType or nVersion are changed to read
it directly from the stream object, through GetType() and GetVersion()
methods which are added to all stream classes.
