Here we add a Go API for running tracing plugins within the main block import process.
As an advanced user of geth, you can now create a Go file in eth/tracers/live/, and within
that file register your custom tracer implementation. Then recompile geth and select your tracer
on the command line. Hooks defined in the tracer will run whenever a block is processed.
The hook system is defined in package core/tracing. It uses a struct with callbacks, instead of
requiring an interface, for several reasons:
- We plan to keep this API stable long-term. The core/tracing hook API does not depend on
on deep geth internals.
- There are a lot of hooks, and tracers will only need some of them. Using a struct allows you
to implement only the hooks you want to actually use.
All existing tracers in eth/tracers/native have been rewritten to use the new hook system.
This change breaks compatibility with the vm.EVMLogger interface that we used to have.
If you are a user of vm.EVMLogger, please migrate to core/tracing, and sorry for breaking
your stuff. But we just couldn't have both the old and new tracing APIs coexist in the EVM.
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Co-authored-by: Sina M <1591639+s1na@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthieu Vachon <matthieu.o.vachon@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Delweng <delweng@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin HS <martin@swende.se>
* core: use TryGetAccount to read where TryUpdateAccount has been used to write
* Gary's review feedback
* implement Gary's suggestion
* fix bug + rename NewSecure into NewStateTrie
* trie: add backwards-compatibility aliases for SecureTrie
* Update database.go
* make the linter happy
Co-authored-by: Guillaume Ballet <3272758+gballet@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
Co-authored-by: rjl493456442 <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
This chang creates a GaugeInfo metrics type for registering informational (textual) metrics, e.g. geth version number. It also improves the testing for backend-exporters, and uses a shared subpackage in 'internal' to provide sample datasets and ordered registry.
Implements #21783
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>