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.
In this commit, we update the neutrino backend for the ChainNotifier to
use the new API which requires that callers pass the outpoint along with
the pkScript to be notified of any spends.
In this commit, we update the implementation of conf notifications for
neutrino to use the output script rather than the txid when matching
blocks for relevant items. The change itself is rather minor as we just
pass in the script, yet match based on the txid as normal when we go to
dispatch notifications.
In this commit, we add a new Updates channel to our ConfirmationEvent
struct. This channel will be used to deliver updates to a subscriber of
a confirmation notification. Updates will be delivered at every
incremental height of the chain with the number of confirmations
remaining for the transaction to be considered confirmed by the
subscriber.
In this commit, we fix a lingering bug related to the way that we
deliver block epoch notifications to end users. Before this commit, we
would launch a new goroutine for *each block*. This was done in order
to ensure that the notification dispatch wouldn’t block the main
goroutine that was dispatching the notifications. This method archived
the goal, but had a nasty side effect that the goroutines could be
re-ordered during scheduling, meaning that in the case of fast
successive blocks, then notifications would be delivered out of order.
Receiving out of order notifications is either disallowed, or can cause
sub-systems that rely on these notifications to get into weird states.
In order to fix this issue, we’ll no longer launch a new goroutine to
deliver each notification to an awaiting client. Instead, each client
will now gain a concurrent in-order queue for notification delivery.
Due to the internal design of chainntnfs.ConcurrentQueue, the caller
should never block, yet the receivers will receive notifications in
order. This change solves the re-ordering issue and also minimizes the
number of goroutines that we’ll create in order to deliver block epoch
notifications.
In this commit, we fix an issue that was recently introduced to the way
we handle historical dispatches for the neutrino notifier. In a recent
change, we no return an error if we’re unable to actually find the
transaction that spends an outpoint. If this is the case, then the
outpoint is actually unspent, and we should proceed as normal.
