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Chain Query API

ChainQueryAPI

The ChainQueryApi is how the wallet project stays aware of the current best chain. This allows the wallet for example to calculate the number of confirmations for a transaction, get the current chain tip, or even retrieve block filters for a given set of blocks.

Since this is an API it can be hooked up to the chain module of bitcoin-s but it can also be linked to any other implementation of your choosing. This allows you to use the bitcoin-s wallet in any schema that you want.

The functions that the ChainQueryApi supports are:

trait ChainQueryApi {

  /** Gets the height of the given block */
  def getBlockHeight(blockHash: DoubleSha256DigestBE): Future[Option[Int]]

  /** Gets the hash of the block that is what we consider "best" */
  def getBestBlockHash(): Future[DoubleSha256DigestBE]

  /** Gets number of confirmations for the given block hash*/
  def getNumberOfConfirmations(
      blockHashOpt: DoubleSha256DigestBE): Future[Option[Int]]

  /** Gets the number of compact filters in the database */
  def getFilterCount: Future[Int]

  /** Returns the block height of the given block stamp */
  def getHeightByBlockStamp(blockStamp: BlockStamp): Future[Int]

  def getFiltersBetweenHeights(
      startHeight: Int,
      endHeight: Int): Future[Vector[FilterResponse]]
      
  def getMedianTimePast(): Future[Long]
}

Chain query with bitcoind

As an example, we will show you how to use the ChainQueryApi and bitcoind to query chain data.

implicit val system: ActorSystem = ActorSystem(s"node-api-example")
implicit val ec: ExecutionContextExecutor = system.dispatcher
implicit val walletConf: WalletAppConfig =
    BitcoinSTestAppConfig.getNeutrinoTestConfig().walletConf

val instance = BitcoindInstanceLocal.fromConfigFile(BitcoindConfig.DEFAULT_CONF_FILE)
val bitcoind = BitcoindRpcClient(instance)
val nodeApi = MockNodeApi.mock

// This function can be used to create a callback for when our chain api receives a transaction, block, or
// a block filter, the returned NodeCallbacks will contain the necessary items to initialize the callbacks
def createCallbacks(
      processTransaction: Transaction => Future[Unit],
      processCompactFilters: (Vector[(DoubleSha256DigestBE, GolombFilter)]) => Future[Unit],
      processBlock: Block => Future[Unit]): NodeCallbacks = {
    lazy val onTx: OnTxReceived = { tx =>
      processTransaction(tx)
    }
    lazy val onCompactFilters: OnCompactFiltersReceived = {
      blockFilters =>
        processCompactFilters(blockFilters)
    }
    lazy val onBlock: OnBlockReceived = { block =>
      processBlock(block)
    }
    NodeCallbacks(onTxReceived = Vector(onTx),
                  onBlockReceived = Vector(onBlock),
                  onCompactFiltersReceived = Vector(onCompactFilters))
  }

// Here is a super simple example of a callback, this could be replaced with anything, from
// relaying the block on the network, finding relevant wallet transactions, verifying the block,
// or writing it to disk
val exampleProcessTx = (tx: Transaction) =>
    Future.successful(println(s"Received tx: ${tx.txIdBE}"))

val exampleProcessBlock = (block: Block) =>
    Future.successful(println(s"Received block: ${block.blockHeader.hashBE}"))

val exampleProcessFilters =
    (filters: Vector[(DoubleSha256DigestBE, GolombFilter)]) =>
      Future.successful(println(s"Received filter: ${filters.head._1.flip.hex} ${filters.head._2.hash.flip.hex}"))

val exampleCallbacks =
    createCallbacks(exampleProcessTx, exampleProcessFilters, exampleProcessBlock)

// Here is where we are defining our actual chain api, Ideally this could be it's own class
// but for the examples sake we will keep it small.
val chainApi = new ChainQueryApi {

    override def epochSecondToBlockHeight(time: Long): Future[Int] =
        Future.successful(0)

    /** Gets the height of the given block */
    override def getBlockHeight(
        blockHash: DoubleSha256DigestBE): Future[Option[Int]] = {
      bitcoind.getBlock(blockHash).map(block => Some(block.height))
    }

    /** Gets the hash of the block that is what we consider "best" */
    override def getBestBlockHash(): Future[DoubleSha256DigestBE] = {
      bitcoind.getBestBlockHash()
    }

    /** Gets number of confirmations for the given block hash */
    override def getNumberOfConfirmations(
        blockHash: DoubleSha256DigestBE): Future[Option[Int]] = {
      for {
        tip <- bitcoind.getBlockCount()
        block <- bitcoind.getBlock(blockHash)
      } yield {
        Some(tip - block.height + 1)
      }
    }

    /** Gets the number of compact filters in the database */
    override def getFilterCount(): Future[Int] = {
      // since bitcoind should have the filter for
      // every block we can just return the block height
      bitcoind.getBlockCount()
    }

    /** Returns the block height of the given block stamp */
    override def getHeightByBlockStamp(blockStamp: BlockStamp): Future[Int] = {
      blockStamp match {
        case blockHeight: BlockStamp.BlockHeight =>
          Future.successful(blockHeight.height)
        case blockHash: BlockStamp.BlockHash =>
          getBlockHeight(blockHash.hash).map(_.get)
        case blockTime: BlockStamp.BlockTime =>
          Future.failed(new RuntimeException(s"Not implemented: $blockTime"))
      }
    }

    override def getFiltersBetweenHeights(
        startHeight: Int,
        endHeight: Int): Future[Vector[FilterResponse]] = {
      val filterFs = startHeight
        .until(endHeight)
        .map { height =>
          for {
            hash <- bitcoind.getBlockHash(height)
            filter <- bitcoind.getBlockFilter(hash, FilterType.Basic)
          } yield {
            FilterResponse(filter.filter, hash, height)
          }
        }
        .toVector

      Future.sequence(filterFs)
    }
    
    override def getMedianTimePast(): Future[Long] = bitcoind.getMedianTimePast()
  }

// Finally, we can initialize our wallet with our own node api
val wallet =
    Wallet(nodeApi = nodeApi, chainQueryApi = chainApi)

// Then to trigger one of the events we can run
wallet.chainQueryApi.getFiltersBetweenHeights(100, 150)