// Copyright (c) 2014-2016 The btcsuite developers // Copyright (c) 2015-2020 The Decred developers // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package blockchain_test import ( "context" "fmt" "os" "path/filepath" "github.com/decred/dcrd/blockchain/v3" "github.com/decred/dcrd/chaincfg/v3" "github.com/decred/dcrd/database/v2" _ "github.com/decred/dcrd/database/v2/ffldb" "github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrutil/v3" ) // 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 Decred 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. mainNetParams := chaincfg.MainNetParams() dbPath := filepath.Join(os.TempDir(), "exampleprocessblock") _ = os.RemoveAll(dbPath) db, err := database.Create("ffldb", dbPath, 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(context.Background(), &blockchain.Config{ DB: db, ChainParams: 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 := dcrutil.NewBlock(mainNetParams.GenesisBlock) forkLen, err := chain.ProcessBlock(genesisBlock, blockchain.BFNone) if err != nil { fmt.Printf("Failed to create chain instance: %v\n", err) return } isMainChain := forkLen == 0 fmt.Printf("Block accepted. Is it on the main chain?: %v", isMainChain) // This output is dependent on the genesis block, and needs to be // updated if the mainnet genesis block is updated. // Output: // Failed to process block: already have block 267a53b5ee86c24a48ec37aee4f4e7c0c4004892b7259e695e9f5b321f1ab9d2 }