This change introduces two new types:
- `PreparedBlock`, representing a block which has undergone semantic
validation and has been prepared for contextual validation;
- `FinalizedBlock`, representing a block which is ready to be finalized
immediately;
and changes the `Request::CommitBlock`,`Request::CommitFinalizedBlock`
variants to use these types instead of their previous fields.
This change solves the problem of passing data between semantic
validation and contextual validation, and cleans up the state code by
allowing it to pass around a bundle of data. Previously, the state code
just passed around an `Arc<Block>`, which forced it to needlessly
recompute block hashes and other data, and was incompatible with the
already-known but not-yet-implemented data transfer requirements, namely
passing in the Sprout and Sapling anchors computed during contextual
validation.
This commit propagates the `PreparedBlock` and `FinalizedBlock` types
through the state code but only uses their data opportunistically, e.g.,
changing .hash() computations to use the precomputed hash. In the
future, these structures can be extended to pass data through the
verification pipeline for reuse as appropriate. For instance, these
changes allow the sprout and sapling anchors to be propagated through
the state.
There's no reason to return a pre-Buffer'd service (there's no need for
internal access to the state service, as in zebra-network), but wrapping
it internally removes control of the buffer size from the caller.
This disables one test that can't be easily fixed at the moment, because
it tests the wrong thing: the checkpoint and block verifiers will
produce different transcripts.
It also disables the initial_tip logic for now, pending simplification
of the ChainVerifier logic.
* stop committing to the state in the ChainVerifier
* commit to the state in the BlockVerifier
* commit to the state in the CheckpointVerifier
Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jlusby42@gmail.com>
This is the first in a sequence of changes that change the block:: items
to not include Block as a prefix in their name, in accordance with the
Rust API guidelines.
* Add checkpoint list generation scripts
* Limit the checkpoint block data size
* Limit the checkpoint height gap
* Add Mainnet and Testnet checkpoint lists
* Parse hard-coded checkpoint lists
The lists were generated using the following limits:
- 256 MB spacing, based on block byte size, and
- 2000 blocks.
* Flatten consensus::verify::* to consensus::*
* Move consensus::*::tests into their own files
* Move CheckpointList into its own file
* Move Progress and Target into a types module
QueuedBlock and QueuedBlockList can stay in checkpoint.rs, because
they are tightly coupled to CheckpointVerifier.
teor
Henry de Valence
Deirdre Connolly
Alfredo Garcia