// Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The btcsuite developers // Copyright (c) 2015-2017 The Decred developers // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package wire import ( "bytes" "io" "time" "github.com/decred/dcrd/chaincfg/chainhash" ) // MaxBlockHeaderPayload is the maximum number of bytes a block header can be. // Version 4 bytes + PrevBlock 32 bytes + MerkleRoot 32 bytes + StakeRoot 32 // bytes + VoteBits 2 bytes + FinalState 6 bytes + Voters 2 bytes + FreshStake 1 // byte + Revocations 1 bytes + PoolSize 4 bytes + Bits 4 bytes + SBits 8 bytes // + Height 4 bytes + Size 4 bytes + Timestamp 4 bytes + Nonce 4 bytes + // ExtraData 32 bytes + StakeVersion 4 bytes. // --> Total 180 bytes. const MaxBlockHeaderPayload = 84 + (chainhash.HashSize * 3) // BlockHeader defines information about a block and is used in the decred // block (MsgBlock) and headers (MsgHeaders) messages. type BlockHeader struct { // Version of the block. This is not the same as the protocol version. Version int32 // Hash of the previous block in the block chain. PrevBlock chainhash.Hash // Merkle tree reference to hash of all transactions for the block. MerkleRoot chainhash.Hash // Merkle tree reference to hash of all stake transactions for the block. StakeRoot chainhash.Hash // Votes on the previous merkleroot and yet undecided parameters. VoteBits uint16 // Final state of the PRNG used for ticket selection in the lottery. FinalState [6]byte // Number of participating voters for this block. Voters uint16 // Number of new sstx in this block. FreshStake uint8 // Number of ssrtx present in this block. Revocations uint8 // Size of the ticket pool. PoolSize uint32 // Difficulty target for the block. Bits uint32 // Stake difficulty target. SBits int64 // Height is the block height in the block chain. Height uint32 // Size is the size of the serialized block in its entirety. Size uint32 // Time the block was created. This is, unfortunately, encoded as a // uint32 on the wire and therefore is limited to 2106. Timestamp time.Time // Nonce is technically a part of ExtraData, but we use it as the // classical 4-byte nonce here. Nonce uint32 // ExtraData is used to encode the nonce or any other extra data // that might be used later on in consensus. ExtraData [32]byte // StakeVersion used for voting. StakeVersion uint32 } // blockHeaderLen is a constant that represents the number of bytes for a block // header. const blockHeaderLen = 180 // BlockHash computes the block identifier hash for the given block header. func (h *BlockHeader) BlockHash() chainhash.Hash { // Encode the header and hash256 everything prior to the number of // transactions. Ignore the error returns since there is no way the // encode could fail except being out of memory which would cause a // run-time panic. buf := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, MaxBlockHeaderPayload)) _ = writeBlockHeader(buf, 0, h) return chainhash.HashH(buf.Bytes()) } // BtcDecode decodes r using the bitcoin protocol encoding into the receiver. // This is part of the Message interface implementation. // See Deserialize for decoding block headers stored to disk, such as in a // database, as opposed to decoding block headers from the wire. func (h *BlockHeader) BtcDecode(r io.Reader, pver uint32) error { return readBlockHeader(r, pver, h) } // BtcEncode encodes the receiver to w using the bitcoin protocol encoding. // This is part of the Message interface implementation. // See Serialize for encoding block headers to be stored to disk, such as in a // database, as opposed to encoding block headers for the wire. func (h *BlockHeader) BtcEncode(w io.Writer, pver uint32) error { return writeBlockHeader(w, pver, h) } // Deserialize decodes a block header from r into the receiver using a format // that is suitable for long-term storage such as a database while respecting // the Version field. func (h *BlockHeader) Deserialize(r io.Reader) error { // At the current time, there is no difference between the wire encoding // at protocol version 0 and the stable long-term storage format. As // a result, make use of readBlockHeader. return readBlockHeader(r, 0, h) } // FromBytes deserializes a block header byte slice. func (h *BlockHeader) FromBytes(b []byte) error { r := bytes.NewReader(b) return h.Deserialize(r) } // Serialize encodes a block header from r into the receiver using a format // that is suitable for long-term storage such as a database while respecting // the Version field. func (h *BlockHeader) Serialize(w io.Writer) error { // At the current time, there is no difference between the wire encoding // at protocol version 0 and the stable long-term storage format. As // a result, make use of writeBlockHeader. return writeBlockHeader(w, 0, h) } // Bytes returns a byte slice containing the serialized contents of the block // header. func (h *BlockHeader) Bytes() ([]byte, error) { buf := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, MaxBlockHeaderPayload)) err := h.Serialize(buf) if err != nil { return nil, err } return buf.Bytes(), nil } // NewBlockHeader returns a new BlockHeader using the provided previous block // hash, merkle root hash, difficulty bits, and nonce used to generate the // block with defaults for the remaining fields. func NewBlockHeader(version int32, prevHash *chainhash.Hash, merkleRootHash *chainhash.Hash, stakeRoot *chainhash.Hash, voteBits uint16, finalState [6]byte, voters uint16, freshStake uint8, revocations uint8, poolsize uint32, bits uint32, sbits int64, height uint32, size uint32, nonce uint32, extraData [32]byte, stakeVersion uint32) *BlockHeader { // Limit the timestamp to one second precision since the protocol // doesn't support better. return &BlockHeader{ Version: version, PrevBlock: *prevHash, MerkleRoot: *merkleRootHash, StakeRoot: *stakeRoot, VoteBits: voteBits, FinalState: finalState, Voters: voters, FreshStake: freshStake, Revocations: revocations, PoolSize: poolsize, Bits: bits, SBits: sbits, Height: height, Size: size, Timestamp: time.Unix(time.Now().Unix(), 0), Nonce: nonce, ExtraData: extraData, StakeVersion: stakeVersion, } } // readBlockHeader reads a Decred block header from r. See Deserialize for // decoding block headers stored to disk, such as in a database, as opposed to // decoding from the wire. func readBlockHeader(r io.Reader, pver uint32, bh *BlockHeader) error { return readElements(r, &bh.Version, &bh.PrevBlock, &bh.MerkleRoot, &bh.StakeRoot, &bh.VoteBits, &bh.FinalState, &bh.Voters, &bh.FreshStake, &bh.Revocations, &bh.PoolSize, &bh.Bits, &bh.SBits, &bh.Height, &bh.Size, (*uint32Time)(&bh.Timestamp), &bh.Nonce, &bh.ExtraData, &bh.StakeVersion) } // writeBlockHeader writes a Decred block header to w. See Serialize for // encoding block headers to be stored to disk, such as in a database, as // opposed to encoding for the wire. func writeBlockHeader(w io.Writer, pver uint32, bh *BlockHeader) error { sec := uint32(bh.Timestamp.Unix()) return writeElements(w, bh.Version, &bh.PrevBlock, &bh.MerkleRoot, &bh.StakeRoot, bh.VoteBits, bh.FinalState, bh.Voters, bh.FreshStake, bh.Revocations, bh.PoolSize, bh.Bits, bh.SBits, bh.Height, bh.Size, sec, bh.Nonce, bh.ExtraData, bh.StakeVersion) }