go-ethereum/eth/tracers/live.go
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eth/tracers: live chain tracing with hooks (#29189)
Here we add a Go API for running tracing plugins within the main block import process. 

As an advanced user of geth, you can now create a Go file in eth/tracers/live/, and within
that file register your custom tracer implementation. Then recompile geth and select your tracer
on the command line. Hooks defined in the tracer will run whenever a block is processed.

The hook system is defined in package core/tracing. It uses a struct with callbacks, instead of 
requiring an interface, for several reasons:

- We plan to keep this API stable long-term. The core/tracing hook API does not depend on
  on deep geth internals.
- There are a lot of hooks, and tracers will only need some of them. Using a struct allows you
   to implement only the hooks you want to actually use.

All existing tracers in eth/tracers/native have been rewritten to use the new hook system.

This change breaks compatibility with the vm.EVMLogger interface that we used to have.
If you are a user of vm.EVMLogger, please migrate to core/tracing, and sorry for breaking
your stuff. But we just couldn't have both the old and new tracing APIs coexist in the EVM.

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Co-authored-by: Matthieu Vachon <matthieu.o.vachon@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Delweng <delweng@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin HS <martin@swende.se>
2024-03-22 18:53:53 +01:00

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package tracers
import (
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/tracing"
)
type ctorFunc func(config json.RawMessage) (*tracing.Hooks, error)
// LiveDirectory is the collection of tracers which can be used
// during normal block import operations.
var LiveDirectory = liveDirectory{elems: make(map[string]ctorFunc)}
type liveDirectory struct {
elems map[string]ctorFunc
}
// Register registers a tracer constructor by name.
func (d *liveDirectory) Register(name string, f ctorFunc) {
d.elems[name] = f
}
// New instantiates a tracer by name.
func (d *liveDirectory) New(name string, config json.RawMessage) (*tracing.Hooks, error) {
if f, ok := d.elems[name]; ok {
return f(config)
}
return nil, errors.New("not found")
}