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Continues from #3280 in building support for batched requests/responses in the JSON RPC (as per issue #3213). * Add JSON RPC batching for client and server As per #3213, this adds support for [JSON RPC batch requests and responses](https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#batch). * Add additional checks to ensure client responses are the same as results * Fix case where a notification is sent and no response is expected * Add test to check that JSON RPC notifications in a batch are left out in responses * Update CHANGELOG_PENDING.md * Update PR number now that PR has been created * Make errors start with lowercase letter * Refactor batch functionality to be standalone This refactors the batching functionality to rather act in a standalone way. In light of supporting concurrent goroutines making use of the same client, it would make sense to have batching functionality where one could create a batch of requests per goroutine and send that batch without interfering with a batch from another goroutine. * Add examples for simple and batch HTTP client usage * Check errors from writer and remove nolinter directives * Make error strings start with lowercase letter * Refactor examples to make them testable * Use safer deferred shutdown for example Tendermint test node * Recompose rpcClient interface from pre-existing interface components * Rename WaitGroup for brevity * Replace empty ID string with request ID * Remove extraneous test case * Convert first letter of errors.Wrap() messages to lowercase * Remove extraneous function parameter * Make variable declaration terse * Reorder WaitGroup.Done call to help prevent race conditions in the face of failure * Swap mutex to value representation and remove initialization * Restore empty JSONRPC string ID in response to prevent nil * Make JSONRPCBufferedRequest private * Revert PR hard link in CHANGELOG_PENDING * Add client ID for JSONRPCClient This adds code to automatically generate a randomized client ID for the JSONRPCClient, and adds a check of the IDs in the responses (if one was set in the requests). * Extract response ID validation into separate function * Remove extraneous comments * Reorder fields to indicate clearly which are protected by the mutex * Refactor for loop to remove indexing * Restructure and combine loop * Flatten conditional block for better readability * Make multi-variable declaration slightly more readable * Change for loop style * Compress error check statements * Make function description more generic to show that we support different protocols * Preallocate memory for request and result objects
Tendermint
Byzantine-Fault Tolerant State Machines. Or Blockchain, for short.
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Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state transition machine - written in any programming language - and securely replicates it on many machines.
For protocol details, see the specification.
For detailed analysis of the consensus protocol, including safety and liveness proofs, see our recent paper, "The latest gossip on BFT consensus".
A Note on Production Readiness
While Tendermint is being used in production in private, permissioned environments, we are still working actively to harden and audit it in preparation for use in public blockchains, such as the Cosmos Network. We are also still making breaking changes to the protocol and the APIs. Thus, we tag the releases as alpha software.
In any case, if you intend to run Tendermint in production, please contact us and join the chat.
Security
To report a security vulnerability, see our bug bounty program
For examples of the kinds of bugs we're looking for, see SECURITY.md
Minimum requirements
| Requirement | Notes |
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| Go version | Go1.11.4 or higher |
Documentation
Complete documentation can be found on the website.
Install
See the install instructions
Quick Start
- Single node
- Local cluster using docker-compose
- Remote cluster using terraform and ansible
- Join the Cosmos testnet
Contributing
Please abide by the Code of Conduct in all interactions, and the contributing guidelines when submitting code.
Join the larger community on the forum and the chat.
To learn more about the structure of the software, watch the Developer Sessions and read some Architectural Decision Records.
Learn more by reading the code and comparing it to the specification.
Versioning
Semantic Versioning
Tendermint uses Semantic Versioning to determine when and how the version changes. According to SemVer, anything in the public API can change at any time before version 1.0.0
To provide some stability to Tendermint users in these 0.X.X days, the MINOR version is used to signal breaking changes across a subset of the total public API. This subset includes all interfaces exposed to other processes (cli, rpc, p2p, etc.), but does not include the in-process Go APIs.
That said, breaking changes in the following packages will be documented in the CHANGELOG even if they don't lead to MINOR version bumps:
- crypto
- types
- rpc/client
- config
- node
- libs
- bech32
- common
- db
- errors
- log
Exported objects in these packages that are not covered by the versioning scheme
are explicitly marked by // UNSTABLE in their go doc comment and may change at any
time without notice. Functions, types, and values in any other package may also change at any time.
Upgrades
In an effort to avoid accumulating technical debt prior to 1.0.0, we do not guarantee that breaking changes (ie. bumps in the MINOR version) will work with existing tendermint blockchains. In these cases you will have to start a new blockchain, or write something custom to get the old data into the new chain.
However, any bump in the PATCH version should be compatible with existing histories (if not please open an issue).
For more information on upgrading, see UPGRADING.md
Resources
Tendermint Core
For details about the blockchain data structures and the p2p protocols, see the Tendermint specification.
For details on using the software, see the documentation which is also hosted at: https://tendermint.com/docs/
Tools
Benchmarking and monitoring is provided by tm-bench and tm-monitor, respectively.
Their code is found here and these binaries need to be built seperately.
Additional documentation is found here.
Sub-projects
Applications
- Cosmos SDK; a cryptocurrency application framework
- Ethermint; Ethereum on Tendermint
- Many more