Version.h held mostly stuff for protocol.h, which is a hub-specific file.
The only thing that we actually use is the PROTOCOL_VERSION in our code
and as such that one moved to the interfaces dir.
setting an incorrect value should not keep the old data after we already
update the fValid boolean.
That would give the user the impression that the data was removed while
it really isn't.
These are technically static libs, but not in any way shared libs.
They are used solely only by this repo and really only by the hub.
Most important, no header files are installed and basically none of
the normal rules for reusable libraries are applied to these files.
This introduces several options for public node operators to limit their
nodes usage by 3rd parties, this is aimed at usage of resource-hungry
areas.
We allow limiting the amount of connections any single IP can keep open
with us.
We limit the amount of reconnects we allow in a short number of seconds.
We allow limiting the number of addresses (or scriptHashes) a peer can
register for the node to scan.
The last one is for both the addressMonitorService as well as for the
getBlock filters.
For node operators these items become available using command line
options or config-file options. By default these limits are unlimited as
we assume default usage to be private.
Move some files back to the server "library".
Merge the 'console' lib with server, as it doesn't really make sense with
just one file and nobody exclusively linking to it.
The server "libary" is not really a library, its the place we put all
the files shared by hub-qt hub-cli and hub.
We no longer depend on these files from other places (mostly due to
moving to the new logging framework) and as such we can move the files
back.
Move some globals and all stuff pulling in crypto to the
server/serverutil.cpp file
Remove dead code.
Move several items that were used in only one place to the respective
files using them.
Move the class WaitUntilFinishedHelper into its own file.
Made sure no header includes utils.h
remove a handfull of files including utils.h for nothing.
Should a user point to a config file with the option `-conf` then
we will read the testnet/regtest options from that file.
This does not change the old behavior. To be clear;
Should a user pass -regtest on the commandline (and not -conf) then
we will only read the config file from the regtest subdir
(~/.config/flowee/regtest).
as the number of applications grows it makes more sense to separate
the 'server' library from the actually reusable libraries.
To recap, the 'server' library is what we started with when importing
all the code from the hub. Slowly we are moving good code out that
is stand-alone and reusable.
We inherited the design from Core that you can put in your config
file which chain you will follow (testnet, regtest).
This has the effect that you can't have different config files for
different chains and that we always read the fallback location for
all chains. Especially the last one is just harmful.
So, regtest/testnet can only be selected from commandline.
If you choose one of those, it will look for a flowee.conf in the
related subdir (flowee/regtest/flowee.conf for instance) and NOT
for the global one. The global one is only ever read for mainnet.
Actually delete the asio io_service when we are done with it since that
will delete any left over tasks in the queue.
This makes deletion order more predictable.
So, now we install the example config file
Then we follow XDG for retrieving it.
We first check XDG_CONFIG (~/.config/flowee) and if we can't find a confg
file there fall back to the data dir (~/.local/share/flowee).
So the service only noticed new stuff happening, like a transaction
coming in or block being mined.
With this change we get a little smarter and look in the current mempool
as well to try and match a transaction.
This should be very useful for clients that lose network connection
briefly.
This service allows one to connect it and register any number of
bitcoin-addresses which will then cause any transaction or block
coming in the future lead the subscriber to get notified about
such events.
The change signifies that the server is not just for admin purposes it
will become the preferred way for all subnet-local interactions.
Notice that we still have the JSON based RPC protocol as fallback.
tomFlowee
TomZ