consensus

Documentation

Overview

Package consensus implements different Ethereum consensus engines.

Quorum

Index

• Constants
• Variables
• type Broadcaster
• type ChainHeaderReader
• type ChainReader
• type Engine
• type Handler
• type Istanbul
• type Peer
• type PoW
• type Protocol

Constants

const (
	Istanbul64 = 64
	Istanbul99 = 99
	// this istanbul subprotocol will be registered in addition to "eth"
	Istanbul100 = 100
)

Constants to match up protocol versions and messages istanbul/99 was added to accommodate new eth/64 handshake status data with fork id this is for backward compatibility which allows a mixed old/new istanbul node network istanbul/64 will continue using old status data as eth/63

Variables

var (
	// ErrUnknownAncestor is returned when validating a block requires an ancestor
	// that is unknown.
	ErrUnknownAncestor = errors.New("unknown ancestor")

	// ErrPrunedAncestor is returned when validating a block requires an ancestor
	// that is known, but the state of which is not available.
	ErrPrunedAncestor = errors.New("pruned ancestor")

	// ErrFutureBlock is returned when a block's timestamp is in the future according
	// to the current node.
	ErrFutureBlock = errors.New("block in the future")

	// ErrInvalidNumber is returned if a block's number doesn't equal its parent's
	// plus one.
	ErrInvalidNumber = errors.New("invalid block number")
)

var (
	IstanbulProtocol = Protocol{
		Name:     "istanbul",
		Versions: []uint{Istanbul100, Istanbul99, Istanbul64},

		Lengths: map[uint]uint64{Istanbul100: 22, Istanbul99: 18, Istanbul64: 18},
	}

	CliqueProtocol = Protocol{
		Name:     "eth",
		Versions: []uint{eth66, eth65, eth64, eth63},
		Lengths:  map[uint]uint64{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */},
	}

	// Default: Keep up-to-date with eth/protocol.go
	EthProtocol = Protocol{
		Name:     "eth",
		Versions: []uint{eth66, eth65, eth64, eth63},
		Lengths:  map[uint]uint64{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */},
	}

	NorewardsProtocol = Protocol{
		Name:     "Norewards",
		Versions: []uint{0},
		Lengths:  map[uint]uint64{0: 0},
	}
)

Types

type Broadcaster

type Broadcaster interface {
	// Enqueue add a block into fetcher queue
	Enqueue(id string, block *types.Block)
	// FindPeers retrives peers by addresses
	FindPeers(map[common.Address]bool) map[common.Address]Peer
}

Broadcaster defines the interface to enqueue blocks to fetcher and find peer

type ChainHeaderReader

type ChainHeaderReader interface {
	// Config retrieves the blockchain's chain configuration.
	Config() *params.ChainConfig

	// CurrentHeader retrieves the current header from the local chain.
	CurrentHeader() *types.Header

	// GetHeader retrieves a block header from the database by hash and number.
	GetHeader(hash common.Hash, number uint64) *types.Header

	// GetHeaderByNumber retrieves a block header from the database by number.
	GetHeaderByNumber(number uint64) *types.Header

	// GetHeaderByHash retrieves a block header from the database by its hash.
	GetHeaderByHash(hash common.Hash) *types.Header
}

ChainHeaderReader defines a small collection of methods needed to access the local blockchain during header verification.

type ChainReader

type ChainReader interface {
	ChainHeaderReader

	// GetBlock retrieves a block from the database by hash and number.
	GetBlock(hash common.Hash, number uint64) *types.Block
}

ChainReader defines a small collection of methods needed to access the local blockchain during header and/or uncle verification.

type Engine

type Engine interface {
	// Author retrieves the Ethereum address of the account that minted the given
	// block, which may be different from the header's coinbase if a consensus
	// engine is based on signatures.
	Author(header *types.Header) (common.Address, error)

	// VerifyHeader checks whether a header conforms to the consensus rules of a
	// given engine. Verifying the seal may be done optionally here, or explicitly
	// via the VerifySeal method.
	VerifyHeader(chain ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header, seal bool) error

	// VerifyHeaders is similar to VerifyHeader, but verifies a batch of headers
	// concurrently. The method returns a quit channel to abort the operations and
	// a results channel to retrieve the async verifications (the order is that of
	// the input slice).
	VerifyHeaders(chain ChainHeaderReader, headers []*types.Header, seals []bool) (chan<- struct{}, <-chan error)

	// VerifyUncles verifies that the given block's uncles conform to the consensus
	// rules of a given engine.
	VerifyUncles(chain ChainReader, block *types.Block) error

	// Prepare initializes the consensus fields of a block header according to the
	// rules of a particular engine. The changes are executed inline.
	Prepare(chain ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header) error

	// Finalize runs any post-transaction state modifications (e.g. block rewards)
	// but does not assemble the block.
	//
	// Note: The block header and state database might be updated to reflect any
	// consensus rules that happen at finalization (e.g. block rewards).
	Finalize(chain ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header, state *state.StateDB, txs []*types.Transaction,
		uncles []*types.Header)

	// FinalizeAndAssemble runs any post-transaction state modifications (e.g. block
	// rewards) and assembles the final block.
	//
	// Note: The block header and state database might be updated to reflect any
	// consensus rules that happen at finalization (e.g. block rewards).
	FinalizeAndAssemble(chain ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header, state *state.StateDB, txs []*types.Transaction,
		uncles []*types.Header, receipts []*types.Receipt) (*types.Block, error)

	// Seal generates a new sealing request for the given input block and pushes
	// the result into the given channel.
	//
	// Note, the method returns immediately and will send the result async. More
	// than one result may also be returned depending on the consensus algorithm.
	Seal(chain ChainHeaderReader, block *types.Block, results chan<- *types.Block, stop <-chan struct{}) error

	// SealHash returns the hash of a block prior to it being sealed.
	SealHash(header *types.Header) common.Hash

	// CalcDifficulty is the difficulty adjustment algorithm. It returns the difficulty
	// that a new block should have.
	CalcDifficulty(chain ChainHeaderReader, time uint64, parent *types.Header) *big.Int

	// APIs returns the RPC APIs this consensus engine provides.
	APIs(chain ChainHeaderReader) []rpc.API

	// Protocol returns the protocol for this consensus
	Protocol() Protocol

	// Close terminates any background threads maintained by the consensus engine.
	Close() error
}

Engine is an algorithm agnostic consensus engine.

type Handler

type Handler interface {
	// NewChainHead handles a new head block comes
	NewChainHead() error

	// HandleMsg handles a message from peer
	HandleMsg(address common.Address, data p2p.Msg) (bool, error)

	// SetBroadcaster sets the broadcaster to send message to peers
	SetBroadcaster(Broadcaster)
}

Handler should be implemented is the consensus needs to handle and send peer's message

type Istanbul

type Istanbul interface {
	Engine

	// Start starts the engine
	Start(chain ChainHeaderReader, currentBlock func() *types.Block, hasBadBlock func(db ethdb.Reader, hash common.Hash) bool) error

	// Stop stops the engine
	Stop() error
}

Istanbul is a consensus engine to avoid byzantine failure

type Peer

type Peer interface {
	// Send sends the message to this peer
	Send(msgcode uint64, data interface{}) error

	// SendConsensus sends the message to this p2p peer using the consensus specific devp2p subprotocol
	SendConsensus(msgcode uint64, data interface{}) error

	// SendQBFTConsensus is used to send consensus subprotocol messages from an "eth" peer without encoding the payload
	SendQBFTConsensus(msgcode uint64, payload []byte) error
}

Peer defines the interface to communicate with peer

type PoW

type PoW interface {
	Engine

	// Hashrate returns the current mining hashrate of a PoW consensus engine.
	Hashrate() float64
}

PoW is a consensus engine based on proof-of-work.

type Protocol

type Protocol struct {
	// Official short name of the protocol used during capability negotiation.
	Name string
	// Supported versions of the eth protocol (first is primary).
	Versions []uint
	// Number of implemented message corresponding to different protocol versions.
	Lengths map[uint]uint64
}

Protocol defines the protocol of the consensus