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.
---------
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>
This removes the 'time' field from logs, as well as from the tracer interface. This change makes the trace output deterministic. If a tracer needs the time they can measure it themselves. No need for evm to do this.
Co-authored-by: Sina Mahmoodi <itz.s1na@gmail.com>
* feat: rename Tracer interface to EVMLogger;
minor changes in API
refine api_tracer.go
refine Tracer interface
* fix: broken tracer tests
* feat: add BenchmarkTransactionTrace
* feat: tracer CaptureEnter CaptureExit in evm
* feat: upgrade js tracers with geth upstream
* chore: clean test
* feat: eth/tracers: support for golang tracers + add golang callTracer
cf. https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/23708
* chore: clean testdata json
* fix: change test due to IntrinsicGas is not upgraded
* feat: make native Tracer the default Tracer
* fix: update tracers.New in api
* fix: addr prefix in callTracer
* fix: remove `native` in BenchmarkTracers
* fix: return consensus error of InsufficientBalance for tx, instead of vmerr
* chore: drop js tracers: call and noop
* common: delete StringToAddress, StringToHash
These functions are confusing because they don't parse hex, but use the
bytes of the string. This change removes them, replacing all uses of
StringToAddress(s) by BytesToAddress([]byte(s)).
* eth/filters: remove incorrect use of common.BytesToAddress
With this commit, core/state's access to the underlying key/value database is
mediated through an interface. Database errors are tracked in StateDB and
returned by CommitTo or the new Error method.
Motivation for this change: We can remove the light client's duplicated copy of
core/state. The light client now supports node iteration, so tracing and storage
enumeration can work with the light client (not implemented in this commit).
Added the ability to directly compile and run ethereum assembly using
the evm utility: `evm run <file>`. This is equivalant to `evm compile
<file> | evm run`.
* Improved the standard evm tracer output and renamed it to WriteTrace
which now takes an io.Writer to write the logs to.
* Added WriteLogs which writes logs to the given writer in a readable
format.
* evm utility now also prints logs generated during the execution.
