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4.3 KiB
Go
91 lines
4.3 KiB
Go
// Copyright 2016 The go-ethereum Authors
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// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
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//
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// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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// (at your option) any later version.
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//
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// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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//
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// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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/*
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Package node sets up multi-protocol Ethereum nodes.
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In the model exposed by this package, a node is a collection of services which use shared
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resources to provide RPC APIs. Services can also offer devp2p protocols, which are wired
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up to the devp2p network when the node instance is started.
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Resources Managed By Node
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All file-system resources used by a node instance are located in a directory called the
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data directory. The location of each resource can be overridden through additional node
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configuration. The data directory is optional. If it is not set and the location of a
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resource is otherwise unspecified, package node will create the resource in memory.
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To access to the devp2p network, Node configures and starts p2p.Server. Each host on the
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devp2p network has a unique identifier, the node key. The Node instance persists this key
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across restarts. Node also loads static and trusted node lists and ensures that knowledge
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about other hosts is persisted.
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JSON-RPC servers which run HTTP, WebSocket or IPC can be started on a Node. RPC modules
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offered by registered services will be offered on those endpoints. Users can restrict any
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endpoint to a subset of RPC modules. Node itself offers the "debug", "admin" and "web3"
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modules.
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Service implementations can open LevelDB databases through the service context. Package
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node chooses the file system location of each database. If the node is configured to run
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without a data directory, databases are opened in memory instead.
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Node also creates the shared store of encrypted Ethereum account keys. Services can access
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the account manager through the service context.
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Sharing Data Directory Among Instances
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Multiple node instances can share a single data directory if they have distinct instance
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names (set through the Name config option). Sharing behaviour depends on the type of
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resource.
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devp2p-related resources (node key, static/trusted node lists, known hosts database) are
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stored in a directory with the same name as the instance. Thus, multiple node instances
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using the same data directory will store this information in different subdirectories of
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the data directory.
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LevelDB databases are also stored within the instance subdirectory. If multiple node
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instances use the same data directory, opening the databases with identical names will
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create one database for each instance.
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The account key store is shared among all node instances using the same data directory
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unless its location is changed through the KeyStoreDir configuration option.
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Data Directory Sharing Example
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In this example, two node instances named A and B are started with the same data
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directory. Node instance A opens the database "db", node instance B opens the databases
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"db" and "db-2". The following files will be created in the data directory:
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data-directory/
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A/
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nodekey -- devp2p node key of instance A
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nodes/ -- devp2p discovery knowledge database of instance A
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db/ -- LevelDB content for "db"
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A.ipc -- JSON-RPC UNIX domain socket endpoint of instance A
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B/
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nodekey -- devp2p node key of node B
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nodes/ -- devp2p discovery knowledge database of instance B
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static-nodes.json -- devp2p static node list of instance B
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db/ -- LevelDB content for "db"
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db-2/ -- LevelDB content for "db-2"
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B.ipc -- JSON-RPC UNIX domain socket endpoint of instance B
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keystore/ -- account key store, used by both instances
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*/
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package node
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