gateway

Documentation

Overview

Package gateway connects a Sia node to the Sia flood network. The flood network is used to propagate blocks and transactions. The gateway is the primary avenue that a node uses to hear about transactions and blocks, and is the primary avenue used to tell the network about blocks that you have mined or about transactions that you have created.

Index

• Constants
• type Gateway
  • func New(addr string, bootstrap bool, persistDir string) (*Gateway, error)
  • func (g *Gateway) Address() modules.NetAddress
  • func (g *Gateway) Broadcast(name string, obj interface{}, peers []modules.Peer)
  • func (g *Gateway) Close() error
  • func (g *Gateway) Connect(addr modules.NetAddress) error
  • func (g *Gateway) Disconnect(addr modules.NetAddress) error
  • func (g *Gateway) Peers() []modules.Peer
  • func (g *Gateway) RPC(addr modules.NetAddress, name string, fn modules.RPCFunc) error
  • func (g *Gateway) RegisterConnectCall(name string, fn modules.RPCFunc)
  • func (g *Gateway) RegisterRPC(name string, fn modules.RPCFunc)
  • func (g *Gateway) UnregisterConnectCall(name string)
  • func (g *Gateway) UnregisterRPC(name string)

Constants

const (

	// EncodedVersionHeaderLength is the length of a session header encoded
	// with the encode package.
	EncodedVersionHeaderLength = 57
)

Types

type Gateway

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

Gateway implements the modules.Gateway interface.

func New

func New(addr string, bootstrap bool, persistDir string) (*Gateway, error)

New returns an initialized Gateway.

func (*Gateway) Address

func (g *Gateway) Address() modules.NetAddress

Address returns the NetAddress of the Gateway.

func (*Gateway) Broadcast

func (g *Gateway) Broadcast(name string, obj interface{}, peers []modules.Peer)

Broadcast calls an RPC on all of the specified peers. The calls are run in parallel. Broadcasts are restricted to "one-way" RPCs, which simply write an object and disconnect. This is why Broadcast takes an interface{} instead of an RPCFunc.

func (*Gateway) Close

func (g *Gateway) Close() error

Close saves the state of the Gateway and stops its listener process.

func (*Gateway) Connect

func (g *Gateway) Connect(addr modules.NetAddress) error

Connect establishes a persistent connection to a peer, and adds it to the Gateway's peer list.

func (*Gateway) Disconnect

func (g *Gateway) Disconnect(addr modules.NetAddress) error

Disconnect terminates a connection to a peer and removes it from the Gateway's peer list. The peer's address remains in the node list.

func (*Gateway) Peers

func (g *Gateway) Peers() []modules.Peer

Peers returns the addresses currently connected to the Gateway.

func (*Gateway) RPC

func (g *Gateway) RPC(addr modules.NetAddress, name string, fn modules.RPCFunc) error

RPC calls an RPC on the given address. RPC cannot be called on an address that the Gateway is not connected to.

func (*Gateway) RegisterConnectCall

func (g *Gateway) RegisterConnectCall(name string, fn modules.RPCFunc)

RegisterConnectCall registers a name and RPCFunc to be called on a peer upon connecting.

func (*Gateway) RegisterRPC

func (g *Gateway) RegisterRPC(name string, fn modules.RPCFunc)

RegisterRPC registers an RPCFunc as a handler for a given identifier. To call an RPC, use gateway.RPC, supplying the same identifier given to RegisterRPC. Identifiers should always use PascalCase. The first 8 characters of an identifier should be unique, as the identifier used internally is truncated to 8 bytes.

func (*Gateway) UnregisterConnectCall

func (g *Gateway) UnregisterConnectCall(name string)

UnregisterConnectCall unregisters an on-connect call and removes the corresponding RPCFunc from g.initRPCs. Future connections to peers will not trigger the RPC to be called on them.

func (*Gateway) UnregisterRPC

func (g *Gateway) UnregisterRPC(name string)

UnregisterRPC unregisters an RPC and removes the corresponding RPCFunc from g.handlers. Future calls to the RPC by peers will fail.