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Using the zmq notifications to avoid excessive mempool polling can be difficult given the current notifications available. It announces all transactions being added to mempool or included in blocks, but announces no evictions and gives no indication if the transaction is in the mempool or a block. Block notifications for zmq are also substandard, in that it only announces block tips, while all block transactions are still announced. This commit adds a unified stream which can be used to closely track mempool: 1) getrawmempool to fill out mempool knowledge 2) if txhash is announced, add or remove from set based on add/remove flag 3) if blockhash is announced, get block txn list, remove from those transactions local view of mempool 4) if we drop a sequence number, go to (1) The mempool sequence number starts at the value 1, and increments each time a transaction enters the mempool, or is evicted from the mempool for any reason, including block inclusion. The mempool sequence number is published via ZMQ for any transaction-related notification. These features allow for ZMQ/RPC consumer to track mempool state in a more exacting way, without unnecesarily polling getrawmempool. See interface_zmq.py::test_mempool_sync for example usage. |
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chain.cpp | ||
chain.h | ||
handler.cpp | ||
handler.h | ||
node.cpp | ||
node.h | ||
README.md | ||
wallet.cpp | ||
wallet.h |
Internal c++ interfaces
The following interfaces are defined here:
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Chain
— used by wallet to access blockchain and mempool state. Added in #14437, #14711, #15288, and #10973. -
ChainClient
— used by node to start & stopChain
clients. Added in #14437. -
Node
— used by GUI to start & stop bitcoin node. Added in #10244. -
Handler
— returned byhandleEvent
methods on interfaces above and used to manage lifetimes of event handlers. -
Init
— used by multiprocess code to access interfaces above on startup. Added in #10102.
The interfaces above define boundaries between major components of bitcoin code (node, wallet, and gui), making it possible for them to run in different processes, and be tested, developed, and understood independently. These interfaces are not currently designed to be stable or to be used externally.