Follow up of PR https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/724
For https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/708
Reported initially in #708, this bug was reconfirmed
by the fuzzer.
This fix ensures that:
* if the user doesn't pass in `"id"` that we send them back
a message in an error telling them to send `"id"`. Previously
we let the handler return a 200 with nothing.
* passing in nil `params` doesn't crash
* not passing in `params` doesn't crash
* passing in non-JSON parseable data to `params` doesn't crash
* Updated code with feedback from @melekes, @ebuchman and @silasdavis.
* Added Makefile clause `release` to only run the test on seeing tag
`release` during releases i.e
```shell
make release
```
which will run the comprehensive and long integration-ish tests.
```
-bash-4.2$ tendermint show_validators
panic: failed to determine gopath: exec: "go": executable file not found in $PATH
goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/common.gopath(0xc4200632c0, 0x18)
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/03.Build.Package/go/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/common/os.go:26 +0x1b5
github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/common.init()
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/03.Build.Package/go/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/common/os.go:17 +0x13c
github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/go-wire.init()
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/03.Build.Package/go/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/go-wire/wire.go:165 +0x50
github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/go-wire/data.init()
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/03.Build.Package/go/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/go-wire/data/wrapper.go:89 +0x50
github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/cli.init()
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/03.Build.Package/go/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/vendor/github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/cli/setup.go:190 +0x76
main.init()
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/03.Build.Package/go/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint/main.go:42 +0x49```
An error message instead would be nice.
```
Now GoPath() is a function instead of a variable.
Fixes https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/751.
Adds jitter to our exponential backoff to mitigate a self DDOS
vector. The jitter is a randomly picked percentage of a second
whose purpose is to ensure that each exponential backoff retry
occurs within (1<<attempts) == 2**attempts, but with the delay
each client will have a random buffer time before it tries to
reconnect instead of all at once reconnections that might even
bring back the previous conditions that might have caused the
dial to the WSServer to have failed e.g
* Network outage
* File descriptor exhaustion
* False positives from firewalls
etc
