In this commit, the RPC API is adapted to run on top of the new Go API.
This required lots of changes to many packages, but has a few side
benefits:
- Ethereum and LightEthereum can now be used as a contract backend.
- Some duplicated code could be removed (there is added duplication in
other places though)
- It is now much easier to see which operations are unsupported with the
light client. Package les previously relied on the full node RPC API
backend, which masked several issues because the RPC API performed
direct access to the chain database.
Changes to packages in detail:
accounts/abi/bind:
- Contract call boilerplate has moved to package core.
cmd/utils:
- les now inherits the event.TypeMux from the Node instance
contracts/release:
- The ReleaseService now uses Ethereum and LightEthereum as backend.
core:
- MissingNumber is exposed so it can be used in package eth.
- GetTransaction now returns the index as an int, for convenience
reasons.
- ApplyCallMessage has been added as the new one and only
implementation of read-only contract calls.
- TxPool exposes NonceAt instead of the more general accessor for the
ManagedState.
core/types:
- Signer.SignECDSA is gone (it was basically unused).
- WithSignature doesn't return an error anymore (all implementations panic for
invalid length). I made this change to avoid code duplication in the API.
eth:
- EthApiBackend is gone. In its place, Ethereum gains many new methods
which implement a large portion of the new Go API. It does not
yet support event subscriptions and log filtering.
- Some accessors for internal objects are gone.
- ethapi.PrivateDebugAPI and ethapi.TxPoolDebugAPI are now created in
package eth for dependency reasons.
eth/downloader:
- Progress returns a pointer to simplify callers.
eth/filters:
- The Backend interface is simpler and uses the stable Go API where
possible. The new BlockReceipts method saves one DB read because
BlockReceipts also takes a block number argument.
- ChainDB is no longer passed via the Backend interface.
- EventSystem now relies on HeaderByHash for reorgs in light client mode
instead of reading from the chain database.
eth/gasprice:
- The LightPriceOracle now uses ethereum.ChainReader instead of
ethapi.Backend.
ethclient:
- TransactionByHash is adapted for the last-minute API change which
adds the isPending return value.
internal/ethapi:
- PublicTxPoolAPI is now called TxPoolDebugAPI, moved to its own file
and talks to the transaction pool instead of using the main Backend.
- The API no longer accesses the chain database directly. All access
is mediated through Backend methods.
- The backend is now split into three interfaces.
Implementing Backend is mandatory but does not require the pending
state. The other two (PendingState, TransactionInclusionBlock) are
optional and discovered at runtime.
les:
- LesApiBackend is gone, LightEthereum gets all the methods.
- Weird accessors copied from package eth are now gone as well.
light:
- TxPool.Stats now returns a queued count of zero. It implements the
ethapi.TxPool interface and can be used with TxPoolDebugAPI.
This change imports the Swarm protocol codebase. Compared to the 'swarm'
branch, a few mostly cosmetic changes had to be made:
* The various redundant log message prefixes are gone.
* All files now have LGPLv3 license headers.
* Minor code changes were needed to please go vet and make the tests
pass on Windows.
* Further changes were required to adapt to the go-ethereum develop
branch and its new Go APIs.
Some code has not (yet) been brought over:
* swarm/cmd/bzzhash: will reappear as cmd/bzzhash later
* swarm/cmd/bzzup.sh: will be reimplemented in cmd/bzzup
* swarm/cmd/makegenesis: will reappear somehow
* swarm/examples/album: will move to a separate repository
* swarm/examples/filemanager: ditto
* swarm/examples/files: will not be merged
* swarm/test/*: will not be merged
* swarm/services/swear: will reappear as contracts/swear when needed
This change also deletes generator.go, moving the only interesting line
in it into release.go. The binding has been regenerated with abigen from
develop and solc v0.3.6.
The wrapper code is adapted from the swarm/services/chequebook package
with the following mostly cosmetic changes:
* The code now uses the new Go API interfaces to query balances. Some
minor functional changes were required to make this work.
* The package no longer depends on swarm/services/swap/swap. References
to swap.Promise are replaced by interface{}, the base type of Promise.
This is temporary.
* The contract wrapper has been regenerated with latest abigen
and solc v0.3.6.
* There is a new generator that creates the 'deployed code' variable.
* Documentation comments now follow the recommended godoc style.
* [CHEQUEBOOK] log prefixes are gone.
* LGPL license headers have been added to all files.
