ipld-eth-beacon-indexer/application_component.md
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Overview

This document will go through various application components

Components

internal/boot

The boot package in internal is utilized to start the application. Everything in the boot process must complete successfully for the application to start. If it does not, the application will not start.

pkg/database

The database package allows us to interact with a postgres DB. We utilize the interface to ensure we can interact with any sql database as well. I copied most of the code here from vulcanize/go-ethereum. Down the road, internal teams should be able to reference the package instead of copy pasting it and re-implementing it.

pkg/beaconclient

This package will contain code to interact with the beacon client.

Known Gaps

Known Gaps tracking is handled within this package. The columns are as follows:

  • StartSlot - The start slot for known_gaps, inclusive.
  • EndSlot - The end slot for known_gaps, inclusive.
  • CheckedOut - Indicates if any process is currently processing this entry.
  • ErrorMessage - Captures any error message that might have occurred when previously processing this entry.
  • EntryTime - The time this range was added to the DB. This can help us catch ranges that have not been processed for a long time due to some error.
  • EntryProcess - The entry process that added this process. Potential options are StartUp, Error, HeadGap.
    • This can help us understand how a specific entry was added. It can be useful for debugging the application.
    • StartUp - Gaps found when we started the application.
    • Error - Indicates that the entry was added due to an error with processing.
    • HeadGap - Indicates that gaps where found when keeping up with Head.

pkg/version

A generic package which can be utilized to easily version our applications.

pkg/gracefulshutdown

A generic package that can be used to shutdown various services within an application.

pkg/loghelper

This package contains useful functions for logging.

internal/shutdown

This package is used to shutdown the ipld-ethcl-indexer. It calls the pkg/gracefulshutdown package.