This commit introduces an optimization for the chain scanning
used in historical confirmations notifications.
It now uses batch request instead of requesting filters one by one.
Earlier GetCFilter could return a nil-error along with a nil-filter in
cases where we failed to fetch the filter. We would just ignore the
block causing us to miss potential crucial information.
Now that GetCFilter will return an error in cases where the fetch
failed, the filter will never be nil (even for blocks with only coinbase
transactions), and we'll instead return an error.
We also increase the number of retries for the filter from the default 2
to 5.
Since GetUtxo is a potentially long running call, we would see
RegisterSpendNtfn block in some cases, in particular on starting the
chain watcher, causing lnd to hang on startup.
This commit makes the call to GetUtxo in a go routine, letting
RegisterSpendNtfn return immediately when the notification events are
created.
In this commit, we update the build to point to the latest version of
neutrino and btcwallet. The latest version of neutrino includes a number
of bug fixes, and new features like reliably transaction broadcast. The
latest version of btcwallet contains a number of bug fixes related to
properly remove invalid transactions from its database.
In this commit, we extend the NeutrinoNotifier to support registering
scripts for spends notifications. Once the script has been detected as
spent within the chain, a spend notification will be dispatched through
the Spend channel of the SpendEvent returned upon registration.
For scripts that have been spent in the past, the rescan logic has been
modified to match on the script rather than the outpoint. A concurrent
queue for relevant transactions has been added to proxy notifications
from the underlying rescan to the txNotifier. This is needed for
scripts, as we cannot perform a historical rescan for scripts through
`GetUtxo`, like we do with outpoints.
For scripts that are unspent, a filter update is sent to the underlying
rescan to ensure that we match and dispatch on the script when
processing new blocks.
Along the way, we also address an issue where we'd miss detecting that
an outpoint/script has been spent in the future due to not receiving a
historical dispatch request from the underlying txNotifier. To fix this,
we ensure that we always request the backend to notify us of the spend
once it detects it at tip, regardless of whether a historical rescan was
detected or not.
In this commit, we extend the NeutrinoNotifier to support registering
scripts for confirmation notifications. Once the script has been
detected as confirmed within the chain, a confirmation notification will
be dispatched to through the Confirmed channel of the ConfirmationEvent
returned upon registration.
For scripts that have confirmed in the past, the `historicalConfDetails`
method has been modified to determine whether the script has been
confirmed by locating the script in an output of a confirmed
transaction.
For scripts that have yet to confirm, a filter update is sent to the
underlying rescan to ensure that we match and dispatch on the script
when processing new blocks.
Along the way, we also address an issue where we'd miss detecting that a
transaction/script has confirmed in the future due to not receiving a
historical dispatch request from the underlying txNotifier. To fix this,
we ensure that we always update our filters to detect the confirmation
at tip, regardless of whether a historical rescan was detected or not.
In this commit, we modify all existing historical rescans for
ChainNotifier backends to scan backwards rather than forwards. If we
know that a transaction has been confirmed, or outpoint spent, the it's
likely that the event has recently transpired assuming we've been
offline for a short period of time. Therefore, if we scan backwards
rather than forwards, then we can save potentially hundreds or thousands
of block fetches if the event recently happened close to the tip of the
chain.
We bound this search at the genesis block, to ensure we don't underflow
the uint32 used throughout the package in the main loop.
In this commit, we alter the different ChainNotifier implementations to
dispatch confirmation and spend notifications after blocks. We do this
to ensure the external consistency of our registered clients.
In this commit, we modify the notifier to handle filter updates
synchronously. We do this to prevent race conditions between new block
notifications and filter updates. Otherwise, it's possible for a new
block to come in that should match our filter, but doesn't due to the
filter being updated after.
We also modify their order so that the filter is updated first. We do
this so we can immediately start watching for the event at tip while the
rescan is ongoing.
In this commit, we modify the logic within RegisterSpendNtfn for the
NeutrinoNotifier to account for the recent changes made to the
TxNotifier. Since it is now able to handle spend notification
registration and dispatch, we can bypass all the current logic within
the NeutrinoNotifier and interact directly with the TxNotifier instead.
The most notable change is that now we'll only attempt a historical
rescan if the TxNotifier tells us so.
This commit removes shadowing of the currentHeight
variable when registering for neutrino spend
notifications. Currently, a locally scoped variable
is used when determining if the backend is fully
synced before attempting to call GetUtxo, which
means that the variable won't be updated after
breaking out of the loop. As a result, this could
cause us to scan unnecessarily if the backend is
catching up, e.g. after being offline for some time.
rescanning
In this commit, we modify the rescan options Neutrino uses when
performing a rescan for historical chain events to disable disconnected
block notifications. This is needed as the Neutrino backend will mutate
its internal state while rewinding, which causes disconnected block
notifications to be sent. Since the notifier acts upon these
notifications, they would cause it to also rewind unnecessarily.
In this commit, we extend the different ChainNotifier implementations to
cache height hints for our spend events. Each outpoint we've requested a
spend notification for will have its initial height hint cached. We then
increment this height hint at every new block for unspent outpoints.
This allows us to retrieve the *exact* height at which the outpoint has
been spent. By doing this, we optimize the different ChainNotifier
implementations since they will no longer have to rescan forward (and
possibly fetch blocks in the neutrino/pruned node case) from the initial
height hint.
In this commit, we alter the different chain notifiers to query their
height hint cache before registering a confimation notification. We do
this as it's possible that the cache has a higher height hint, which
can potentially reduce the amount of blocked fetched when attempting
historical dispatches.
TestChainNotifier wraps the ChainNotifier interface to allow adding additional testing methods with access to private fields in the notifiers. These testing methods are only compiled when the build tag "debug" is set. UnsafeStart allows starting a notifier with a specified best block.
UnsafeStart is useful for the purpose of testing cases where a notifier's best block is out of date when it receives a new block.
This resolves the situation where a notifier's chain backend skips a series of blocks, causing the notifier to need to dispatch historical block notifications to clients.
Additionally, if the current notifier's best block has been reorged out, this logic enables the notifier to rewind to the common ancestor between the current chain and the outdated best block and dispatches notifications from the ancestor.
This prevents the situation where we notify clients about a newly connected block, and then the block connection itself fails. We also want to set our best block in between connecting the block and notifying clients, in case a client makes queries about the new block they have received.
If the chain backend misses telling the notifier about a series of disconnected blocks, the notifier is now able to disconnect the tip to its new best block.
If a client passes in their best known block when registering for block notifications, check to see if it's behind our best block. If so, dispatch the missed block notifications to the client.
This is necessary because clients that persist their best known block can miss new blocks while registering for notifications.
Clients can optionally pass their best block known into RegisterBlockEpochNtfn. This enables the notifiers to catch up clients on blocks they may have missed.
