No more bitcoinj peer-group stalls, or slow startups,
or downloading tons of block headers, or checkpoint files.
Now we use ElectrumX protocol to query info from random servers.
Also:
BTC.hash160 callers now use Crypto.hash160 instead.
Added BitTwiddling.fromLEBytes() returns int.
Unit tests seem OK, but needs complete testnet ACCT walkthrough.
Old Qora v1 message types removed.
Message type values changed.
Network handshaking reworked to fix multiple-connections issue.
Instead of using some random peerID, we now use proper keypairs and a challenge-response handshake to prevent doppelgangers/ID-theft.
This results in simpler handshaking code as we don't have to perform some arcane doppelganger resolution.
Handshaking still uses proof-of-work for challenge-response, but switched to newer MemoryPoW.
API call GET /peers no longer has 'buildTimestamp' field, but does now have 'nodeId' field.
Network no longer has a whole raft of getXXXpeers() due to simplified handshaking.
Quite a few method calls changed to simply Network.getHandshakedPeers(), which is also faster.
Previously GET /chats/active/{address} would only return an active group chat
entry where 'address' was a member AND there was an existing CHAT
transaction with the same tx_group_id (and no recipient).
Now the response contains entries for ALL groups where 'address' is a member,
regardless of an existing CHAT transactions, omitting the 'timestamp' entry
if there are none.
CREATE_GROUP, ISSUE_ASSET, REGISTER_NAME and UPDATE_NAME transactions affected.
The code to actually generate 'reduced' name was called inside isValid() and
relied on setting the corresponding transaction data object field so that it would
be saved by isValid()'s caller. Although this worked, it wasn't a very clean
solution.
Now the 'reduced' name is generated by transaction data object's constructors so
it is always present.
Also removed name/group/asset reduceName(String) methods as they were all the
same single-line call to Unicode.sanitize().
Group owner now derived from CREATE_GROUP transaction creator's public key.
Added 'reduced' group name to GroupData, with corresponding change to DB.
Renamed GroupData.getIsOpen() to simply isOpen().
Tidied up CreateGroupTransactionData, adding 'reduced' group name.
Renamed getIsOpen() to simply isOpen().
Added code to generated reduced group name when building genesis block.
Added Group.MIN_NAME_SIZE of 3.
DB tables changed to add reduced_group_name where appropriate,
removing owner where necessary.
Added GroupRepository.reducedGroupNameExists(String).
Fixed up test blockchain configs in src/test/resources/test-chain-v2*.json.
This allows on-chain messages to a group, including NO_GROUP / groupID zero.
No-recipient messages cannot have an amount - where would it go?
Changed MESSAGE serialization layout to add boolean indicating
whether recipient is present.
Changed MESSAGE serialization layout so assetID is after amount,
and only present if amount is non-zero.
Changed DB table structures to cover above.
Added unit tests to cover above.
Owner now derived from issuer's public key.
Maximum asset name length reduced to 40 characters.
Repository table changes.
"owner" removed from test blockchain configs and "issuerPublicKey" used instead
where applicable.
Some getters in the form of "getIs___()" renamed to simply "is____()".
Changes include:
* Allowing renaming
* Tracking last-updated timestamps
* More stringent Unicode processing
* Way more unit tests
* Max name length reduction to 40 chars
Note: HSQLDB repository table changes
Controller no longer starts up BTC support during main startup.
This does mean that BTC startup is deferred until first BTC-related
action, and that the first BTC-related action will take much longer
to complete.
Added tests to cover startup/shutdown.
This also fixes splash logo stuck on-screen and broken Controller
shutdown when using REGTEST bitcoin network AND there is no
local regtest bitcoin server running.
REGISTER_NAME has an "owner" field which can be different from the actual
registrant (transaction creator's public key, used for signing transaction).
This allowed people to register names to be owned by someone else, thus breaking
the whole "one name per account" aspect.
So now "owner" is removed from REGISTER_NAME, and the actual owner address is
derived from transaction creator's public key, as you would expect.
Similarly, UPDATE_NAME has a corresponding "newOwner" field which has been removed.
In addition, UPDATE_NAME now allows users to change their registered name using a new
"newName" field.
Various changes made to DB, Name class, etc. to accomodate above, along with some minor
bug-fixes and comment improvements/corrections.
Needs new unit tests to cover both new functionality and old!
Always add group 0 info to output of API call GET /chats/active/{address}.
No groupName entry as it's "no group" or "group-less" or "not group related".
Timestamp also might be omitted if no message found.
Fix output of POST /chats/compute so it doesn't include zeroed 64-byte signature.
Renamed GET /chats/search to /chats/messages.
Added GET /chats/active/{address} to return lists of group chats
and direct chats involving {address}, where a chat message exists.
Change CHAT API call GET /chat/search to better support the two
main scenarios of:
group-based chatting: supply txGroupId only
private chatting: supply 2 'involving' addresses only
Added some DB indexes to cater for above.
GET /chat/search now returns specialized ChatMessage objects
instead of ChatTransactions. This is to reduce unnecessary fetching
of data from repository, and onward sending to API client.
Previously Controller would loop through the transaction signatures,
discard those already known, and then requesting the full transaction
via peer.getResponse(). This would tie up a networking thread for some
time and also potentially cause repository deadlocks, although the latter
could have been fixed another way.
However, the code after peer.getResponse() was identical to the code
processing an incoming TRANSACTION message. Now instead of requesting
and waiting for then processing each transaction, Controller simply
sends the peer a GET_TRANSACTION for each unknown transaction signature.
As the peer responds with corresponding TRANSACTION messages, these can
be processed individually with shorter period of locking.
