+//! Traits and utility impls which allow other parts of rust-lightning to interact with the
+//! blockchain.
+//!
+//! Includes traits for monitoring and receiving notifications of new blocks and block
+//! disconnections, transactio broadcasting, and feerate information requests.
+
use bitcoin::blockdata::block::{Block, BlockHeader};
use bitcoin::blockdata::transaction::Transaction;
use bitcoin::blockdata::script::Script;
use bitcoin::blockdata::constants::genesis_block;
-use bitcoin::util::hash::Sha256dHash;
+use bitcoin::util::hash::{BitcoinHash, Sha256dHash};
use bitcoin::network::constants::Network;
-use bitcoin::network::serialize::BitcoinHash;
use util::logger::Logger;
/// An interface to request notification of certain scripts as they appear the
/// chain.
+///
/// Note that all of the functions implemented here *must* be reentrant-safe (obviously - they're
/// called from inside the library in response to ChainListener events, P2P events, or timer
/// events).
/// Indicates that a listener needs to see all transactions.
fn watch_all_txn(&self);
+ /// Register the given listener to receive events. Only a weak pointer is provided and the
+ /// registration should be freed once that pointer expires.
fn register_listener(&self, listener: Weak<ChainListener>);
//TODO: unregister
/// Note that if a new transaction/outpoint is watched during a block_connected call, the block
/// *must* be re-scanned with the new transaction/outpoints and block_connected should be
/// called again with the same header and (at least) the new transactions.
+ ///
/// Note that if non-new transaction/outpoints may be registered during a call, a second call
/// *must not* happen.
+ ///
/// This also means those counting confirmations using block_connected callbacks should watch
/// for duplicate headers and not count them towards confirmations!
fn block_connected(&self, header: &BlockHeader, height: u32, txn_matched: &[&Transaction], indexes_of_txn_matched: &[u32]);
/// A trait which should be implemented to provide feerate information on a number of time
/// horizons.
+///
/// Note that all of the functions implemented here *must* be reentrant-safe (obviously - they're
/// called from inside the library in response to ChainListener events, P2P events, or timer
/// events).
pub trait FeeEstimator: Sync + Send {
- /// Gets estimated satoshis of fee required per 1000 Weight-Units. This translates to:
- /// * satoshis-per-byte * 250
- /// * ceil(satoshis-per-kbyte / 4)
+ /// Gets estimated satoshis of fee required per 1000 Weight-Units.
+ ///
/// Must be no smaller than 253 (ie 1 satoshi-per-byte rounded up to ensure later round-downs
/// don't put us below 1 satoshi-per-byte).
+ ///
+ /// This translates to:
+ /// * satoshis-per-byte * 250
+ /// * ceil(satoshis-per-kbyte / 4)
fn get_est_sat_per_1000_weight(&self, confirmation_target: ConfirmationTarget) -> u64;
}
}
/// Utility to capture some common parts of ChainWatchInterface implementors.
+///
/// Keeping a local copy of this in a ChainWatchInterface implementor is likely useful.
pub struct ChainWatchInterfaceUtil {
network: Network,
}
impl ChainWatchInterfaceUtil {
+ /// Creates a new ChainWatchInterfaceUtil for the given network
pub fn new(network: Network, logger: Arc<Logger>) -> ChainWatchInterfaceUtil {
ChainWatchInterfaceUtil {
network: network,
}
/// Notify listeners that a block was connected given a full, unfiltered block.
+ ///
/// Handles re-scanning the block and calling block_connected again if listeners register new
/// watch data during the callbacks for you (see ChainListener::block_connected for more info).
pub fn block_connected_with_filtering(&self, block: &Block, height: u32) {
/// Notify listeners that a block was connected, given pre-filtered list of transactions in the
/// block which matched the filter (probably using does_match_tx).
+ ///
/// Returns true if notified listeners registered additional watch data (implying that the
/// block must be re-scanned and this function called again prior to further block_connected
/// calls, see ChainListener::block_connected for more info).