qortal/NOTES.md
catbref 795da06505 Refactor stupid getResultSetBytes() method & fix migrate
* Replaced occurances of "this.repository.getResultSetBytes(resultSet.getBinaryStream(index))"
with "resultSet.getBytes(index)"

* Replaced corresponding preparedStatement.setBinaryStream() with preparedStatement.setBytes()

* Fixed migrate app so DB can be rebuilt using old v1 Qora client
2018-06-19 16:49:42 +01:00

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### General
- Reduce Qora2 down to core blockchain node with RESTful API access.
Other libraries can process name-storage data into websites, or provide web-based wallet UI, etc.
- Trying to reduce number of external dependencies where possible, e.g. avoiding heavy-weight ORM like Hive, Hibernate, etc.
- Trying to reduce duplicated code, especially across transactions with lots of serialisation and signature generation.
- Transaction signatures should really be generated after creating the transaction,
compared to the old style of generating signature first (and throw-away transaction in the process)
then using signature when creating actual transaction!
- Trying to keep most of the source structure, naming, code paths, etc. similar to old Qora to reduce brain load!
- More comments/javadoc
- More JUnit tests
### Differences due to switching from MapDB to HSQLDB
- We might need to maintain more mappings in the database, e.g. Qora address to/from public key,
as previously public key objects could be stored directly in MapDB.
- The new database tried to store the data in "rawest" form, i.e. raw ```byte[]``` signatures, not base58-encoded.
- The ```Transactions``` table contains ```creator``` column, which duplicates various child table columns,
e.g. ```PaymentTransactions.sender```,
so that all transactions by a specific Qora account can be quickly found without scanning all child tables.
- SQL is contained within repository classes repository.* (interfaces) and repository.hsqldb.* (implementations).
- We use transfer objects in data.*
- "Business logic" is left in qora.*
- Some MapDB-based objects had Java Map<> objects as their values. These will need to be unpacked into separate tables.