The command really only accepts IP addresses, but we use 'localhost' as
an exception to bind to loopback for ipv4 and ipv6 at the same time.
Also improve logging of errors and avoid failing to start the API
service if a bind address wasn't an IP.
Where we wrap the old RPC code we need to revert the byte-order from the
strings created there for the uint256.
This simplyfies the code by introducing a helper method.
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.
This is rather embarrasing, but I have to ask why fully synching the
testnet created precisely for this fork (to the same height as the
explorers) didn't fail. Did it not have any schnorr signatures? Otherwise
this bug would have shown. What good is a testnet then?
All client apps (=connecting to a server only) now gained the verbose
and quiet command line arguments to select a different level of
verbosity.
Servers don't need this as they use a config file.
This also makes the --debug option only for debug builds as the logging
system already doesn't compile in debug statements otherwise, it makes
little sense to try to print them.
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.
The rule is that all sha256s are serialized like they are printed (so
zeros first for a blockID), this updates various places in the API did
reversed this order.
Nodes that follow a different chain (and thus send us headers that we
already invalidated) now get an immediate disconnect whereas before
we could keep them around for an hour.
Also upgrade the cashier app with logging, ctrl-c catching
and debug + version command line arguments.
Last, this checks the server version and exits if the Hub
version is too old.
Remove txIndex option, its move to Flowee Indexer
Also remove the GUI option for setting the amount
of "script validator threads". :D
Remove DBCash command line option too, equally obsolete.
Also write some new accessor methods on the baseclass.
The longer term idea is to make the server itself only use the uint160
raw version for bitcoin addresses.
For now move the encodings (between that uint160 and human-readable) to
the utils library.
Write a changesSincePruning integer which has the following effects;
after a restart;
* We will do a prune faster and/or more often for nodes that are not
running very long stretches of time.
* We will skip pruning files that don't need it.
Context; pruning of the UTXO is throwing away already spent outputs
that are still in our dirty files.
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)
TomZ