eth-statediff-service

A standalone statediffing service which runs directly on top of a go-ethereum LevelDB instance. This service can serve historical state data over the same rpc interface as statediffing geth without needing to run a full node.

Setup

Configure access to the private Git server at git.vdb.to, then build the executable:

go build .

Configuration

See ./environments/example.toml for an annotated example config file.

Note: previous versions of this service used different variable names. To update, change the following:

• LVLDB_MODE, LVLDB_PATH, LVLDB_ANCIENT, LVLDB_URL => LEVELDB_*
• LOG_FILE_PATH => LOG_FILE

Local Setup

• Create a chain config file chain.json according to chain config in genesis json file used by local geth.

  Example:

  {
    "chainId": 41337,
    "homesteadBlock": 0,
    "eip150Block": 0,
    "eip150Hash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "eip155Block": 0,
    "eip158Block": 0,
    "byzantiumBlock": 0,
    "constantinopleBlock": 0,
    "petersburgBlock": 0,
    "istanbulBlock": 0,
    "clique": {
      "period": 5,
      "epoch": 30000
    }
  }
  

  Provide the path to the above file in the config.

Usage

• Create / update the config file (refer to example config above).

serve

• To serve the statediff RPC API:

  ./eth-statediff-service serve --config=<config path>
  

  Example:

  ./eth-statediff-service serve --config environments/config.toml
  

• Available RPC methods:

  • statediff_stateTrieAt()
  • statediff_streamCodeAndCodeHash()
  • statediff_stateDiffAt()
  • statediff_writeStateDiffAt()
  • statediff_writeStateDiffsInRange()

  Example:

  curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "statediff_writeStateDiffsInRange",
    "params": [0, 1, {
        "ncludeBlock": true,
        "includeReceipts": true,
        "includeTD": true,
        "includeCode": true
      }
    ],
    "id": 1
  }' "$HOST":"$PORT"
  

• Prerun:

  • The process can be configured locally with sets of ranges to process as a "prerun" to processing directed by the server endpoints.
  • This is done by turning "prerun" on in the config (statediff.prerun = true) and defining ranges and params in the prerun section of the config.
  • Set the range using prerun.start and prerun.stop. Use prerun.ranges if prerun on more than one range is required.

• NOTE: Currently, params.includeTD must be set to / passed as true.

Monitoring

• Enable metrics using config parameters prom.metrics and prom.http.
• eth-statediff-service exposes following prometheus metrics at /metrics endpoint:
  • ranges_queued: Number of range requests currently queued.
  • loaded_height: The last block that was loaded for processing.
  • processed_height: The last block that was processed.
  • stats.t_block_load: Block loading time.
  • stats.t_block_processing: Block (header, uncles, txs, rcts, tx trie, rct trie) processing time.
  • stats.t_state_processing: State (state trie, storage tries, and code) processing time.
  • stats.t_postgres_tx_commit: Postgres tx commit time.
  • http.count: HTTP request count.
  • http.duration: HTTP request duration.
  • ipc.count: Unix socket connection count.

Tests

• Run unit tests:

  make test
  

Import output data in file mode into a database

• When eth-statediff-service is run in file mode (database.type: file) the output is in form of a SQL file or multiple CSV files.

SQL

• Assuming the output files are located in host's ./output_dir directory.

• Create a directory to store post-processed output:

  mkdir -p output_dir/processed_output
  

• (Optional) Get row counts in the output:

  wc -l output_dir/statediff.sql > output_stats.txt
  

• De-duplicate data:

  sort -u output_dir/statediff.sql -o output_dir/processed_output/deduped-statediff.sql
  

• Copy over the post-processed output files to the DB server (say in /output_dir).

• Run the following to import data:

  psql -U <DATABASE_USER> -h <DATABASE_HOSTNAME> -p <DATABASE_PORT> <DATABASE_NAME> --set ON_ERROR_STOP=on -f /output_dir/processed_output/deduped-statediff.sql
  

CSV

• Create an env file with the required variables. Refer .sample.env.

• (Optional) Get row counts in the output:

  ./scripts/count-lines.sh <ENV_FILE_PATH>
  

• De-duplicate data:

  ./scripts/dedup.sh <ENV_FILE_PATH>
  

• Perform column checks:

  ./scripts/check-columns.sh <ENV_FILE_PATH>
  

  Check the output logs for any rows detected with unexpected number of columns.

  Example:

  # log
  eth.header_cids
  Start: Wednesday 21 September 2022 06:00:38 PM IST
  Time taken: 00:00:05
  End: Wednesday 21 September 2022 06:00:43 PM IST
  Total bad rows: 1 ./check-columns/eth.header_cids.txt
  
  # bad row output
  # line number, num. of columns, data
  23 17 22,xxxxxx,0x07f5ea5c94aa8dea60b28f6b6315d92f2b6d78ca4b74ea409adeb191b5a114f2,0x5918487321aa57dd0c50977856c6231e7c4ee79e95b694c7c8830227d77a1ecc,bagiacgzaa726uxeuvkg6uyfsr5vwgfozf4vw26gkjn2ouqe232yzdnnbctza,45,geth,0,0xad8fa8df61b98dbda7acd6ca76d5ce4cbba663d5f608cc940957adcdb94cee8d,0xc621412320a20b4aaff5363bdf063b9d13e394ef82e55689ab703aae5db08e26,0x71ec1c7d81269ce115be81c81f13e1cc2601c292a7f20440a77257ecfdc69940,0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347,\x2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,1658408419,/blocks/DMQAP5PKLSKKVDPKMCZI623DCXMS6K3NPDFEW5HKICNN5MMRWWQRJ4Q,1,0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  

• Import data using timescaledb-parallel-copy:
  (requires timescaledb-parallel-copy installation; readily comes with TimescaleDB docker image)

  ./scripts/timescaledb-import.sh <ENV_FILE_PATH>
  

• NOTE: COPY command on CSVs inserts empty strings as NULL in the DB. Passing FORCE_NOT_NULL <COLUMN_NAME> forces it to insert empty strings instead. This is required to maintain compatibility of the imported statediff data with the data generated in postgres mode. Reference: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-copy.html

Stats

The binary includes a stats command which reports stats for the offline or remote levelDB.

At this time, the only stat supported is to return the latest/highest block height and hash found the levelDB, this is useful for determining what the upper limit is for a standalone statediffing process on a given levelDB.

./eth-statediff-service stats --config={path to toml config file}