JSON Schema extraction via `schemars` is provided for configurations.
There are other interfaces that use JSON for (de-)serialization, such as
the communication with `radicle-node` via the control socket.
To ease implementation of tools that want to communicate via the control
socket, we add the respective `schemars` annotations.
1. Adds a user-agent string to the node announcement. This lets us keep
track of what software version everyone is running. Especially useful
to see what percentage of the network has upgraded to a new release.
For old nodes, this defaults to the string `/radicle/`.
The user agent format is roughly based on BIP 0014.
2. Advertize protocol version in node announcement.
By advertizing the protocol version, nodes can decide to only connect to
peers with a compatible version. The default and current version is `1`.
We bundle these two changes as they both modify the node announcement
and node database.
3. Swap the order of the fields in announcements to make the message
extensible.
When using `network: "test"`, we shouldn't default to any public seed
node. This change makes sure that the "preferredSeeds" configuration var
is only given a value when `network` is `main`.
Previously, we might ban a node if we're having trouble connecting to
it, but this could be due to internet connectivity issues.
We introduce a penalty score for nodes, that increases if there are
connection issues or the node misbehaves, and decreases on successful
connections.
When connected to new nodes, we sort them so that low-penalty nodes are
attempted first.
Instead of having a routing database, and an addresses database,
consolidate that in a single database called `node.db`.
We also simplify database access, by providing a single type for opening
the database, and use traits to access the various functions.
We create a new `seed::Store` that has seed-related methods split out of
the `address::Store`.
Note that tracking is still in its own database currently, as it isn't
ephemeral state. This makes it easy to delete the new `node.db` without
risk of losing any important information.
To avoid renaming all database methods, we create a `Stores` wrapper
that allows us to access routing, addresses, seeds etc. without type
ambiguity.
This is a breaking change and requires `addresses.db` and `routing.db`
to be deleted.
As a starting point, we populate the address book (if empty) with some
bootstrap nodes which are trusted.
To prevent these nodes being connected to during tests (including e2e
tests), we create a new constructor for `Config` that is used in tests.
Note that a `cfg(test)` check is not enough given that e2e tests don't
have that set.
Lorenz Leutgeb
cloudhead
Alexis Sellier
xphoniex