sync

Documentation

Index

• type State
  • func (s State) Duration() time.Duration
  • func (s State) Finished() bool
• type Syncer
  • func NewSyncer(exchange header.Exchange, store header.Store, sub header.Subscriber, ...) *Syncer
  • func (s *Syncer) Head(ctx context.Context) (*header.ExtendedHeader, error)
  • func (s *Syncer) Start(ctx context.Context) error
  • func (s *Syncer) State() State
  • func (s *Syncer) Stop(ctx context.Context) error
  • func (s *Syncer) WaitSync(ctx context.Context) error

Types

type State

type State struct {
	ID                   uint64 // incrementing ID of a sync
	Height               uint64 // height at the moment when State is requested for a sync
	FromHeight, ToHeight uint64 // the starting and the ending point of a sync
	FromHash, ToHash     tmbytes.HexBytes
	Start, End           time.Time
	Error                error // the error that might happen within a sync
}

State collects all the information about a sync.

func (State) Duration

func (s State) Duration() time.Duration

Duration returns the duration of the sync.

func (State) Finished

func (s State) Finished() bool

Finished returns true if sync is done, false otherwise.

type Syncer

type Syncer struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Syncer implements efficient synchronization for headers.

Subjective header - the latest known header that is not expired (within trusting period) Network header - the latest header received from the network

There are two main processes running in Syncer: 1. Main syncing loop(s.syncLoop)

• Performs syncing from the subjective(local chain view) header up to the latest known trusted header
• Syncs by requesting missing headers from Exchange or
• By accessing cache of pending and verified headers

2. Receives new headers from PubSub subnetwork (s.processIncoming)

• Usually, a new header is adjacent to the trusted head and if so, it is simply appended to the local store, incrementing the subjective height and making it the new latest known trusted header.
• Or, if it receives a header further in the future, verifies against the latest known trusted header adds the header to pending cache(making it the latest known trusted header) and triggers syncing loop to catch up to that point.

func NewSyncer

func NewSyncer(exchange header.Exchange, store header.Store, sub header.Subscriber, blockTime time.Duration) *Syncer

NewSyncer creates a new instance of Syncer.

func (*Syncer) Head

func (s *Syncer) Head(ctx context.Context) (*header.ExtendedHeader, error)

Head returns the Syncer's latest known header. It calls 'networkHead' in order to either return or eagerly fetch the most recent header.

func (*Syncer) Start

func (s *Syncer) Start(ctx context.Context) error

Start starts the syncing routine.

func (*Syncer) State

func (s *Syncer) State() State

State reports state of the current (if in progress), or last sync (if finished). Note that throughout the whole Syncer lifetime there might an initial sync and multiple catch-ups. All of them are treated as different syncs with different state IDs and other information.

func (*Syncer) Stop

func (s *Syncer) Stop(ctx context.Context) error

Stop stops Syncer.

func (*Syncer) WaitSync

func (s *Syncer) WaitSync(ctx context.Context) error

WaitSync blocks until ongoing sync is done.