ipld-eth-server/vendor/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/blockchain/example_test.go
Rob Mulholand 560305f601 Update dependencies
- uses newer version of go-ethereum required for go1.11
2018-09-13 16:14:35 -05:00

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// Copyright (c) 2014-2016 The btcsuite developers
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package blockchain_test
import (
"fmt"
"math/big"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/blockchain"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database"
_ "github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database/ffldb"
"github.com/btcsuite/btcutil"
)
// This example demonstrates how to create a new chain instance and use
// ProcessBlock to attempt to add a block to the chain. As the package
// overview documentation describes, this includes all of the Bitcoin consensus
// rules. This example intentionally attempts to insert a duplicate genesis
// block to illustrate how an invalid block is handled.
func ExampleBlockChain_ProcessBlock() {
// Create a new database to store the accepted blocks into. Typically
// this would be opening an existing database and would not be deleting
// and creating a new database like this, but it is done here so this is
// a complete working example and does not leave temporary files laying
// around.
dbPath := filepath.Join(os.TempDir(), "exampleprocessblock")
_ = os.RemoveAll(dbPath)
db, err := database.Create("ffldb", dbPath, chaincfg.MainNetParams.Net)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to create database: %v\n", err)
return
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dbPath)
defer db.Close()
// Create a new BlockChain instance using the underlying database for
// the main bitcoin network. This example does not demonstrate some
// of the other available configuration options such as specifying a
// notification callback and signature cache. Also, the caller would
// ordinarily keep a reference to the median time source and add time
// values obtained from other peers on the network so the local time is
// adjusted to be in agreement with other peers.
chain, err := blockchain.New(&blockchain.Config{
DB: db,
ChainParams: &chaincfg.MainNetParams,
TimeSource: blockchain.NewMedianTime(),
})
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to create chain instance: %v\n", err)
return
}
// Process a block. For this example, we are going to intentionally
// cause an error by trying to process the genesis block which already
// exists.
genesisBlock := btcutil.NewBlock(chaincfg.MainNetParams.GenesisBlock)
isMainChain, isOrphan, err := chain.ProcessBlock(genesisBlock,
blockchain.BFNone)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to process block: %v\n", err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Block accepted. Is it on the main chain?: %v", isMainChain)
fmt.Printf("Block accepted. Is it an orphan?: %v", isOrphan)
// Output:
// Failed to process block: already have block 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
}
// This example demonstrates how to convert the compact "bits" in a block header
// which represent the target difficulty to a big integer and display it using
// the typical hex notation.
func ExampleCompactToBig() {
// Convert the bits from block 300000 in the main block chain.
bits := uint32(419465580)
targetDifficulty := blockchain.CompactToBig(bits)
// Display it in hex.
fmt.Printf("%064x\n", targetDifficulty.Bytes())
// Output:
// 0000000000000000896c00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
}
// This example demonstrates how to convert a target difficulty into the compact
// "bits" in a block header which represent that target difficulty .
func ExampleBigToCompact() {
// Convert the target difficulty from block 300000 in the main block
// chain to compact form.
t := "0000000000000000896c00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
targetDifficulty, success := new(big.Int).SetString(t, 16)
if !success {
fmt.Println("invalid target difficulty")
return
}
bits := blockchain.BigToCompact(targetDifficulty)
fmt.Println(bits)
// Output:
// 419465580
}