The idea of binding to interfaces now will take into account the
interfaces maybe becoming available only after the server started.
If your server starts at machine boot, it is a 50/50 chance that the
network interfaces are already fully configured and have received
addresses. In case of dhcp, more often than not this means that your
server will not be listening at the main interface because it wasn't up
yet.
This new api allows the server to give a function to register a new
interface and we have some linux specific code that will notice changes
in the interfaces and we'll allow the app to bind to it a moment or two
after that.
This gets around the sillyness where you need an extra dir for a config.
~/.config/flowee/rest-service/rest-service.conf
now you can just use
~/.config/flowee/rest-service.conf
When there is no config we now bind on all available (at startup)
interfaces to listen for service requests.
This solves the problem where a fresh server would not listen to
requests from the outside world but only on localhost.
For service applications that bind to networks (currently
only indexer) this allows users to pass the address:
0.0.0.0
to bind to. The effect will be that we find all the network
interfaces in the system and bind to all of them.
Notice that we already had "localhost" as an alias to bind to both
v4 and v6 loopback interfaces.
This new feature depends on optional dependency QtNetwork.
Now everyone auto-connects to localhost unless passed the
option --connect=
Also make indexer find the logs.conf from the same dir as the
commandline passed config file.
This makes running it as a service more useful.
This adds lots of little things;
* Add GetTransaction API call
* I refactored the GetBlock API a little to reuse code.
* a new 'Version' API call for the hub
* API for the logging manager, so we can set a default
setup with just C++-APIs
* various (usability) fixes in the FloweeServiceApplication
* Binding to localhost attempts to bind to both IPv4 and v6
* Print the actual transaction hex from indexer-cli (which really
is just a testing app)
tomFlowee
TomZ