Every transaction can have zero or more announcements, which are essentially
messages that must be included across all future mergers and updates.
Announcements are typically used for transmitting information related to
receiving UTXOs, encrypted. However, a new use case is that of *transparent
transaction info*, which is an announcement containing the UTXOs and the
commitment randomnesses needed to reproduce the transaction's inputs and
outputs. With such a transparent transaction info announcement, third parties
can transparently audit transactions.
This commit adds a page for viewing announcements, and if the announcement can
be parsed as a transparent transaction info type announcement then it is
rendered as such, complete with native currency amounts and linkable UTXOs
(where possible).
The path for accessing announcements is any of
- `/announcement/digest/<hex-string>/<index>`
- `/announcement/tip/<index>`
- `/announcement/genesis/<index>`
- `/announcement/height/<height>/<index>`
- `/announcement/height_or_digest/<height-or-diges>/index/<index>`.
The last bullet point exists to support the quick lookup functionality, which is
also new. A `AnnouncementSelector` has display and from-string methods relating
these path formats to the relevant object. A suite of (prop)tests verifies
parsing.
Also, this commit enables mocking, which is useful when the neptune-core node
the explorer is connected to is outdated, unsynced, or for whatever reason does
not serve the desired data. The RPC client call is intercepted, and if it fails
and mocking is enabled, an imagined (pseudorandom) resource of the requested
type is returned. To enable mocking, compile with the "mock" feature flag and
set the "MOCK" environment variable.
closes#7.
adds a blockchain watchdog that checks every hour if the tip height has
advanced or not. Sends alert email if height is less or equal to
height at the last check and enters a warning mode. In warning mode
it waits until the height is greater than previous, and then sends a
recovery alert and switches to normal mode.
Adds a 'Canonical' field to the /block page.
note: this requires updating neptune-core in order to obtain the field
from neptune-core's /block_info rpc endpoint.
it was also necessary to change 'use neptune_core::<x>" statements to
'use neptune_cash::<x>'
ArcSwap is lock-free and optimized for our use-case of lots of
concurrent reads and infrequent updates.
So it is pretty close to a shared-nothing architecture.
Some small changes were necessary, but its mostly a drop-in
replacement for RwLock.
closes#1
Implements a background watchdog task that:
1. calls neptune-core /network rpc every N seconds (default: 10)
2. emits log message on any state change
3. sends detailed email alert to admin on any state change
Changes:
* AppState now has internal Arc<RwLock<AppStateInner>> to permit
watchdog task to mutate the rpc_client field.
* adjust application to AppState changes (use locks)
* not_found functions no longer accept state arg
* move state initialization into AppState::init()
* add optional alert parameters: admin-email, smtp-*
* add neptune_rpc module with watchdog task
* add alert_email module
* simplify main()
* log warnings if alert parameters not set
* add chrono dep
* add lettre dep
