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peer: Improve documentation.
This fleshes out the doc.go documentation which is shown on godoc, the README.md shown on github, and improves a couple of comments for the fields in the Config struct.
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peer
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====
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[]
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(https://travis-ci.org/btcsuite/btcd)
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[]
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(https://travis-ci.org/btcsuite/btcd) [![ISC License]
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(http://img.shields.io/badge/license-ISC-blue.svg)](http://copyfree.org)
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Package peer provides a common base for creating and managing bitcoin network
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peers.
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This package has intentionally been designed so it can be used as a standalone
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package for any projects needing a full featured bitcoin peer base to build on.
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## Overview
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- Create peers for full nodes, Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes,
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proxies etc
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- Built-in handlers for common messages like initial message version
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negotiation, handling and responding to pings
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- Register and manage multiple custom handlers for all messages
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This package builds upon the wire package, which provides the fundamental
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primitives necessary to speak the bitcoin wire protocol, in order to simplify
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the process of creating fully functional peers. In essence, it provides a
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common base for creating concurrent safe fully validating nodes, Simplified
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Payment Verification (SPV) nodes, proxies, etc.
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A quick overview of the major features peer provides are as follows:
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- Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin
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communications via the peer-to-peer protocol
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- Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages
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- Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol
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version negotiation
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- Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for
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notification when the message is actually sent
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- Flexible peer configuration
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- Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for
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incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as
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they see fit (proxies, etc)
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- User agent name and version
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- Bitcoin network
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- Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc)
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- Maximum supported protocol version
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- Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages
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- Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection
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and avoidance
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- Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses
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- Random nonce generation and self connection detection
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- Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not
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specify the related flag to signal support
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- Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough
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- Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions
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- Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and
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written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version
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- Helper functions pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject
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messages
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- These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function,
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but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate
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filtering and address randomization
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- Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect
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- Comprehensive test coverage
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## Documentation
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[]
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[]
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(http://godoc.org/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/peer)
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Full `go doc` style documentation for the project can be viewed online without
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@ -28,11 +68,20 @@ You can also view the documentation locally once the package is installed with
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the `godoc` tool by running `godoc -http=":6060"` and pointing your browser to
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http://localhost:6060/pkg/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/peer
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## Installation
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## Installation and Updating
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```bash
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$ go get github.com/btcsuite/btcd/peer
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$ go get -u github.com/btcsuite/btcd/peer
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```
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Package peer is licensed under the [copyfree](http://copyfree.org) ISC
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License.
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## Examples
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* [New Outbound Peer Example]
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(https://godoc.org/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/peer#example-package--NewOutboundPeer)
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Demonstrates the basic process for initializing and creating an outbound peer.
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Peers negotiate by exchanging version and verack messages. For demonstration,
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a simple handler for the version message is attached to the peer.
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## License
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Package peer is licensed under the [copyfree](http://copyfree.org) ISC License.
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peer/doc.go
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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/*
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Package peer provides a common base for creating and managing bitcoin network
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peers for fully validating nodes, Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes,
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proxies, etc. It includes basic protocol exchanges like version negotiation,
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responding to pings etc.
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Package peer provides a common base for creating and managing Bitcoin network
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peers.
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Inbound peers accept a connection and respond to the version message to begin
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version negotiation.
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Overview
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Outbound peers connect and push the initial version message over a given
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connection.
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This package builds upon the wire package, which provides the fundamental
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primitives necessary to speak the bitcoin wire protocol, in order to simplify
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the process of creating fully functional peers. In essence, it provides a
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common base for creating concurrent safe fully validating nodes, Simplified
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Payment Verification (SPV) nodes, proxies, etc.
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Both peers accept a configuration to customize options such as user agent,
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service flag, protocol version, chain parameters, and proxy.
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A quick overview of the major features peer provides are as follows:
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To extend the basic peer functionality provided by package peer, listeners can
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be configured for all message types using callbacks in the peer configuration.
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- Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin
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communications via the peer-to-peer protocol
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- Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages
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- Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol
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version negotiation
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- Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional channel for
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notification when the message is actually sent
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- Flexible peer configuration
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- Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening for
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incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish connections as
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they see fit (proxies, etc)
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- User agent name and version
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- Bitcoin network
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- Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc)
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- Maximum supported protocol version
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- Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages
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- Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory detection
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and avoidance
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- Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses
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- Random nonce generation and self connection detection
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- Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does not
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specify the related flag to signal support
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- Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough
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- Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions
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- Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read and
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written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version
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- Helper functions pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and reject
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messages
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- These could all be sent manually via the standard message output function,
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but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such as duplicate
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filtering and address randomization
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- Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect
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- Comprehensive test coverage
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Peer Configuration
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All peer configuration is handled with the Config struct. This allows the
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caller to specify things such as the user agent name and version, the bitcoin
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network to use, which services it supports, and callbacks to invoke when bitcoin
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messages are received. See the documentation for each field of the Config
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struct for more details.
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Inbound and Outbound Peers
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A peer can either be inbound or outbound. The caller is responsible for
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establishing the connection to remote peers and listening for incoming peers.
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This provides high flexibility for things such as using proxies, acting as a
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proxy, creating bride peers, choosing whether to listen for inbound peers, etc.
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For outgoing peers, the NewOutboundPeer function must be used to specify the
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configuration followed by invoking Connect with the net.Conn instance. This
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start all async I/O goroutines and initiate the initial negotiation process.
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Once that has been completed, the peer is fully functional.
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For inbound peers, the NewInboundPeer function must be used to specify the
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configuration and net.Conn instance followed by invoking Start. This will start
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all async I/O goroutines and listen for the initial negotiation process. Once
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that has been completed, the peer is fully functional.
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Callbacks
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In order to do anything useful with a peer, it is necessary to react to bitcoin
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messages. This is accomplished by creating an instance of the MessageListeners
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struct with the callbacks to be invoke specified and setting the Listeners field
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of the Config struct specified when creating a peer to it.
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For convenience, a callback hook for all of the currently supported bitcoin
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messages is exposed which receives the peer instance and the concrete message
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type. In addition, a hook for OnRead is provided so even custom messages types
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for which this package does not directly provide a hook, as long as they
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implement the wire.Message interface, can be used. Finally, the OnWrite hook
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is provided, which in conjunction with OnRead, can be used to track server-wide
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byte counts.
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It is often useful to use closures which encapsulate state when specifying the
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callback handlers. This provides a clean method for accessing that state when
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callbacks are invoked. TODO(davec): Provide example...
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Queuing Messages and Inventory
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The QueueMessage function provides the fundamental means to send messages to the
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remote peer. As the name implies, this employs a non-blocking queue. A done
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channel which will be notified when the message is actually sent can optionally
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be specified. There are certain message types which are better send using other
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functions which provide additional functionality.
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Of special interest are inventory messages. Rather than manually sending MsgInv
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message via Queuemessage, the inventory vectors should be queued using the
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QueueInventory function. It employs batching and trickling along with
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intelligent known remote peer inventory detection and avoidance through the use
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of a most-recently used algorithm.
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Message Sending Helper Functions
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In addition to the bare QueueMessage function previously described, the
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PushAddrMsg, PushGetBlocksMsg, PushGetHeadersMsg, and PushRejectMsg functions
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are provided as a convenience. While it is of course possible to create and
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send these message manually via QueueMessage, these helper functions provided
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additional useful functionality that is typically desired.
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For example, the PushAddrMsg function automatically limits the addresses to the
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maximum number allowed by the message and randomizes the chosen addresses when
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there are too many. This allows the caller to simply provide a slice of known
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addresses, such as that returned by the addrmgr package, without having to worry
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about the details.
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Next, the PushGetBlocksMsg and PushGetHeadersMsg functions will construct proper
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messages using a block locator and ignore back to back duplicate requests.
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Finally, the PushRejectMsg function can be used to easily create and send an
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appropriate reject message based on the provided parameters as well as
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optionally provides a flag to cause it to block until the message is actually
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sent.
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Peer Statistics
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A snapshot of the current peer statistics can be obtained with the StatsSnapshot
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function. This includes statistics such as the total number of bytes read and
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written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version.
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Logging
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This package provides extensive logging capabilities through the UseLogger
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function which allows a btclog.Logger to be specified. For example, logging at
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the debug level provides summaries of every message sent and received, and
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logging at the trace level provides full dumps of parsed messages as well as the
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raw message bytes using a format similar to hexdump -C.
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Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
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This package supported all BIPS support by the
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[wire](https://godoc.org/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/wire#hdr-Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals)
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package.
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*/
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package peer
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10
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type Config struct {
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// NewestBlock specifies a callback which provides the newest block
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// details to the peer as needed. This can be nil in which case the
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// peer will report a block height of 0. Typically, only full nodes
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// will need to specify this.
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// peer will report a block height of 0, however it is good practice for
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// peers to specify this so their currently best known is accurately
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// reported.
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NewestBlock ShaFunc
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// BestLocalAddress returns the best local address for a given address.
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// nil in which case the host will be parsed as an IP address.
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HostToNetAddress HostToNetAddrFunc
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// Proxy specifies a SOCKS5 proxy (eg. 127.0.0.1:9050) to use for
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// connections.
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// Proxy indicates a proxy is being used for connections. The only
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// effect this has is to prevent leaking the tor proxy address, so it
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// only needs to specified if using a tor proxy.
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Proxy string
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// UserAgentName specifies the user agent name to advertise. It is
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