TurtleCoind High-Availability Daemon Wrapper
This project is designed to wrap the TurtleCoind daemon on a *nix system and monitor it for hangups, locks, fork, or other events that cause the daemon to stop responding to requests in an accurate manner.
The sample service.js includes how to automatically restart the daemon if it hangs, locks, or otherwise stops responding.
Table of Contents
To Do
N/A
Dependencies
- NodeJS v8.x
- TurtleCoind v0.8.4 or higher
Easy Start
You must copy TurtleCoind
into the turtlecoind-ha
folder for the easy start process to occur.
git clone https://github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoind-ha.gitcd turtlecoind-hacp <TurtleCoind> .sudo npm install & node service.js
It is highly recommended that you use checkpoints when starting fresh or you'll need to wait a while for the sync to occur.
Keep it Running
I'm a big fan of PM2 so if you don't have it installed, the setup is quite simple.
npm install -g pm2 pm2 startuppm2 install pm2-logrotate pm2 start service.js --name turtlecoindpm2 save
Documentation
Initialization
Practically all TurtleCoind command line arguments are exposed in the constructor method. Simply include them in your list of options to get activate or use them. Default values are defined below.
var daemon = // These are our TurtleCoind-ha options pollingInterval: 10000 // How often to check the daemon in milliseconds maxPollingFailures: 3 // How many polling intervals can fail before we emit a down event? checkHeight: true // Check the daemon block height against known trusted nodes maxDeviance: 5 // What is the maximum difference between our block height and the network height that we're willing to accept? clearP2pOnStart: true // Will automatically delete the p2pstate.bin file on start if set to true clearDBLockFile: true // Will automatically delete the DB LOCK file on start if set to true timeout: 2000 // How long to wait for RPC responses in milliseconds enableWebSocket: true // Enables a socket.io websocket server on the rpcBindPort + 1 webSocketPassword: false // Set this to a password to use for the privileged socket events. // These are the standard TurtleCoind options path: './TurtleCoind' // Where can I find TurtleCoind? dataDir: '~/.TurtleCoin' // Where do you store your blockchain? testnet: false // Use the testnet? enableCors: false // Enable CORS support for the domain in this value enableBlockExplorer: true // Enable the block explorer loadCheckpoints: false // If set to a path to a file, will supply that file to the daemon if it exists. rpcBindIp: '0.0.0.0' // What IP to bind the RPC server to rpcBindPort: 11898 // What Port to bind the RPC server to p2pBindIp: '0.0.0.0' // What IP to bind the P2P network to p2pBindPort: 11897 // What Port to bind the P2P network to p2pExternalPort: 0 // What External Port to bind the P2P network to for those behind NAT allowLocalIp: false // Add our own IP to the peer list? peers: false // Manually add the peer(s) to the list. Allows for a string or an Array of strings. priorityNodes: false // Manually add the priority node(s) to the peer list. Allows for a string or an Array of strings. exclusiveNodes: false // Only add these node(s) to the peer list. Allows for a string or an Array of strings. seedNode: false // Connect to this node to get the peer list then quit. Allows for a string. hideMyPort: false // Hide from the rest of the network dbThreads: 2 // Number of database background threads dbMaxOpenFiles: 100 // Number of allowed open files for the DB dbWriteBufferSize: 256 // Size of the DB write buffer in MB dbReadBufferSize: 10 // Size of the DB read cache in MB feeAddress: false // allows to specify the fee address for the node feeAmount: 0 // allows to specify the fee amount for the node
Methods
daemon.api.start()
Starts up the daemon and starts monitoring the process.
daemonstart
daemon.api.stop()
Stops the daemon and halts all monitoring processes.
daemon
daemon.api.write(text)
Allows you to send a line of text to the daemon console
daemon
Events
Event - block
This is emitted whenever a new block is found on the network (or locally).
daemon
Sample data
"alreadyGeneratedCoins": "1484230931125" "alreadyGeneratedTransactions": 974921 "baseReward": 2935998 "blockSize": 48846 "depth": 0 "difficulty": 358164537 "effectiveSizeMedian": 100000 "hash": "f11580d74134ac34673c74f8da458080aacbe1eccea05b197e9d10bde05139f5" "height": 501854 "major_version": 4 "minor_version": 0 "nonce": 214748383 "orphan_status": false "penalty": 0 "prev_hash": "674046ea53a8673c630bd34655c4723199e69fdcfd518503f4c714e16a7121b5" "reward": 2936608 "sizeMedian": 231 "timestamp": 1527891820 "totalFeeAmount": 610 "transactions": "amount_out": 2936608 "fee": 0 "hash": "61b29d7a3fe931928388f14cffb5e705a68db219e1df6b4e15aee39d1c2a16e8" "size": 266 "amount_out": 2005890 "fee": 110 "hash": "8096a55ccd0d4a736b3176836429905f349c3de53dd4e92d34f4a2db7613dc4b" "size": 2288 "amount_out": 3999900 "fee": 100 "hash": "304a068cbe87cd02b48f80f8831197174b133870d0c118d1fe65d07a33331c4e" "size": 2691 "amount_out": 7862058 "fee": 100 "hash": "29c0d6708e8148eec6e02173b3bab0093768e5f486f553939495a47f883b4445" "size": 9638 "amount_out": 6951392 "fee": 100 "hash": "fe661f11a0ba9838610c147f70813c17755ab608c7b033f6432c0b434671182c" "size": 10004 "amount_out": 6800150 "fee": 100 "hash": "4b0366f79ec341cf60d5ef8c9dd8e65974dacb1be1d30dc0bf11d2d9d8240b46" "size": 11493 "amount_out": 7260417 "fee": 100 "hash": "066b86268b7bb2f780ed76f452d1e6f7213dc6cae273b71fbd4ba378befaed00" "size": 12155 "transactionsCumulativeSize": 48535
Event - data
Feeds back the stdout of the daemon process on a line by line basis. You can use this to monitor the progress of the application or hook and do your own development.
daemon
Event - desync
This event is emitted when the daemon has lost synchronization with the TurtleCoin network
daemon
Event - down
This event is emitted when the daemon is not responding to RPC requests or local console checks. We believe at that point that the daemon is hung.
daemon
Event - error
This event is emitted when the daemon or our service encounters an error.
daemon
Event - info
This event is emitted when the daemon or our service has something to tell you but its not that important.
daemon
Event - ready
This event is emitted when the daemon is synchronized with the TurtleCoin network and is passing all the checks we have for it. It returns the equivalent of a /getinfo call to the RPC server with a few minor additions.
daemon
Sample Data
"alt_blocks_count": 1 "difficulty": 250799029 "grey_peerlist_size": 4995 "hashrate": 8359967 "height": 502282 "incoming_connections_count": 8 "last_known_block_index": 340143 "network_height": 502282 "outgoing_connections_count": 8 "status": "OK" "synced": true "tx_count": 473402 "tx_pool_size": 0 "version": "0.5.0" "white_peerlist_size": 602
Event - start
This event is emitted when the daemon starts. The callback contains the command line arguments supplied to TurtleCoind.
daemon
Event - started
This event is emitted when the daemon is now accepting P2P connections.
daemon
Event - stopped
This event is emitted when the daemon is stopped for whatever reason.
daemon
Event - synced
This event is emitted when the daemon has synchronized with the TurtleCoin network.
daemon
Event - syncing
This event is emitted when the daemon is syncing. It gives the current status of the sync.
daemon
Event - topblock
This event is emitted when the daemon detects a new top block on the network. It will be the next block found.
daemon
TurtleCoind RPC API Interface
As we can actually run this wrapper inside another nodeJS project, we expose all of the TurtleCoind RPC API commands via the daemon.api
property. Each of the below methods are Javascript Promises. For safety sake, always handle your promise catches as we do use them properly.
Methods noted having options have parameters that may be optional or required as documented.
daemon.api.getBlocks(options)
Returns information on the last 30 blocks before height (inclusive).
options.height
The height of the blockchain to start at - required
Example Data
"cumul_size": 22041 "difficulty": 285124963 "hash": "62f0058453292af5e1aa070f8526f7642ab6974c6af2c17088c21b31679c813d" "height": 500000 "timestamp": 1527834137 "tx_count": 4 "cumul_size": 384 "difficulty": 258237161 "hash": "74a45602da61b8b8ff565b1c81c854416046a23ca53f4416684ffaa60bc50796" "height": 499999 "timestamp": 1527834031 "tx_count": 1 "cumul_size": 418 "difficulty": 256087255 "hash": "ed628ff13eacd5b99c5d7bcb3aeb29ef8fc61dbb21d48b65e0cdaf5ab21211c1" "height": 499998 "timestamp": 1527834020 "tx_count": 1
daemon.api.getBlock(options)
Returns information on a single block
options.hash
Block hash of the block you wish to retrieve - required
Sample Data
"alreadyGeneratedCoins": "1484230931125" "alreadyGeneratedTransactions": 974921 "baseReward": 2935998 "blockSize": 48846 "depth": 0 "difficulty": 358164537 "effectiveSizeMedian": 100000 "hash": "f11580d74134ac34673c74f8da458080aacbe1eccea05b197e9d10bde05139f5" "height": 501854 "major_version": 4 "minor_version": 0 "nonce": 214748383 "orphan_status": false "penalty": 0 "prev_hash": "674046ea53a8673c630bd34655c4723199e69fdcfd518503f4c714e16a7121b5" "reward": 2936608 "sizeMedian": 231 "timestamp": 1527891820 "totalFeeAmount": 610 "transactions": "amount_out": 2936608 "fee": 0 "hash": "61b29d7a3fe931928388f14cffb5e705a68db219e1df6b4e15aee39d1c2a16e8" "size": 266 "amount_out": 2005890 "fee": 110 "hash": "8096a55ccd0d4a736b3176836429905f349c3de53dd4e92d34f4a2db7613dc4b" "size": 2288 "amount_out": 3999900 "fee": 100 "hash": "304a068cbe87cd02b48f80f8831197174b133870d0c118d1fe65d07a33331c4e" "size": 2691 "amount_out": 7862058 "fee": 100 "hash": "29c0d6708e8148eec6e02173b3bab0093768e5f486f553939495a47f883b4445" "size": 9638 "amount_out": 6951392 "fee": 100 "hash": "fe661f11a0ba9838610c147f70813c17755ab608c7b033f6432c0b434671182c" "size": 10004 "amount_out": 6800150 "fee": 100 "hash": "4b0366f79ec341cf60d5ef8c9dd8e65974dacb1be1d30dc0bf11d2d9d8240b46" "size": 11493 "amount_out": 7260417 "fee": 100 "hash": "066b86268b7bb2f780ed76f452d1e6f7213dc6cae273b71fbd4ba378befaed00" "size": 12155 "transactionsCumulativeSize": 48535
daemon.api.getTransaction(options)
Gets information on the single transaction.
options.hash
The transaction hash - required
Sample Data
"block": "cumul_size": 22041 "difficulty": 103205633 "hash": "62f0058453292af5e1aa070f8526f7642ab6974c6af2c17088c21b31679c813d" "height": 500000 "timestamp": 1527834137 "tx_count": 4 "status": "OK" "tx": "extra": "019e430ecdd501714900c71cb45fd49b4fa77ebd4a68d967cc2419ccd4e72378e3020800000000956710b6" "unlock_time": 500040 "version": 1 "vin": "type": "ff" "value": "height": 500000 "vout": "amount": 80 "target": "data": "key": "5ce69a87940df7ae8443261ff610861d2e4207a7556ef1aa35878c0a5e7e382d" "type": "02" "amount": 200 "target": "data": "key": "7c7f316befaac16ba3782a2ce489e7c0f16c2b733ac0eaa0a72a12ee637822e9" "type": "02" "amount": 6000 "target": "data": "key": "defcb7eb6537bf0a63368ed464df10197e67d7ea8f080e885911cf9ea71abb62" "type": "02" "amount": 30000 "target": "data": "key": "9693e864dba53f308d0b59623c608b6fe16bbdc7cdc75be94f78582d547b46a4" "type": "02" "amount": 900000 "target": "data": "key": "b739e9fbaa3ee976a9ed8ad93a2731ee191c384cf136929e737786573fcd3e96" "type": "02" "amount": 2000000 "target": "data": "key": "5621667d44e7ffb87e5010a5984c188f58a799efb01569e8e42fa2415bb7d14a" "type": "02" "txDetails": "amount_out": 2936280 "fee": 0 "hash": "702ad5bd04b9eff14b080d508f69a320da1909e989d6c163c18f80ae7a5ab832" "mixin": 0 "paymentId": "" "size": 266
daemon.api.getTransactionPool()
Gets the list of transaction hashs in the mempool.
Sample Data
"amount_out": 1660000 "fee": 0 "hash": "721ae50994d5446d5683ca79d6fa97dce321a39e88e1df70ae433dc67573841b" "size": 13046 "amount_out": 325000 "fee": 0 "hash": "fc88004d9cd012c0341506f13003da015efec940cffca0baeff0a381c7846203" "size": 28038 "amount_out": 4040000 "fee": 0 "hash": "de63292050c73db4bb74637910ceab2aef6b9a0b611d0d93e7a757f9c53f975a" "size": 28058 "amount_out": 10200000 "fee": 0 "hash": "edcd17184bd0c953be009da6b555e90a7cd5fc596f5f560332382995be7b55a7" "size": 28091 "amount_out": 3380000 "fee": 0 "hash": "e1846775508a750a2f027db46972114e86866d27d304c9178867ae4616b3723c" "size": 28092 "amount_out": 3960000 "fee": 0 "hash": "015646a75a5279050b5f02df6d5ff9814860fabc8b093818995a4fb6a33e45d8" "size": 28096 "amount_out": 3860000 "fee": 0 "hash": "5e2f8bcc8c6c9a74e8ce33a66213711b418633eceeefce50042aecb8544676ba" "size": 28097
daemon.api.getBlockCount()
Gets the current block count
Sample Data
502322
daemon.api.getBlockHash(options)
Gets a block hash by height.
options.height
The height of the block - required
Sample Data
74a45602da61b8b8ff565b1c81c854416046a23ca53f4416684ffaa60bc50796
daemon.api.getBlockTemplate(options)
options.reserveSize
Reserve size - required
options.walletAddress
Public Wallet Address - required
Sample Data
"blocktemplate_blob": "0400...0581" "difficulty": 194635827 "height": 502335 "reserved_offset": 412 "status": "OK"
daemon.api.submitBlock(options)
options.blockBlob
The block blob data - required
Sample Data
"status": "OK"
daemon.api.getLastBlockHeader()
Sample Data
"block_header": "block_size": 419 "depth": 0 "difficulty": 200671816 "hash": "7d6db7b77232d41c19d898e81c85ecf08c4e8dfa3434f975a319f6261a695739" "height": 502345 "major_version": 4 "minor_version": 0 "nonce": 130876 "num_txes": 1 "orphan_status": false "prev_hash": "5af657331edff98791720c23aacf72e8b6247ddba2a5c42c93984a46946abd14" "reward": 2935955 "timestamp": 1527907348 "status": "OK"
daemon.api.getBlockHeaderByHash(options)
options.hash
Block hash - required
Sample Data
"block_header": "block_size": 419 "depth": 2 "difficulty": 200671816 "hash": "7d6db7b77232d41c19d898e81c85ecf08c4e8dfa3434f975a319f6261a695739" "height": 502345 "major_version": 4 "minor_version": 0 "nonce": 130876 "num_txes": 1 "orphan_status": false "prev_hash": "5af657331edff98791720c23aacf72e8b6247ddba2a5c42c93984a46946abd14" "reward": 2935955 "timestamp": 1527907348 "status": "OK"
daemon.api.getBlockHeaderByHeight(options)
options.height
Block height - required
Sample Data
"block_header": "block_size": 419 "depth": 2 "difficulty": 200671816 "hash": "7d6db7b77232d41c19d898e81c85ecf08c4e8dfa3434f975a319f6261a695739" "height": 502345 "major_version": 4 "minor_version": 0 "nonce": 130876 "num_txes": 1 "orphan_status": false "prev_hash": "5af657331edff98791720c23aacf72e8b6247ddba2a5c42c93984a46946abd14" "reward": 2935955 "timestamp": 1527907348 "status": "OK"
daemon.api.getCurrencyId()
Sample Data
7fb97df81221dd1366051b2d0bc7f49c66c22ac4431d879c895b06d66ef66f4c
daemon.api.height()
Sample Data
"height": 502354 "network_height": 502354 "status": "OK"
daemon.api.info()
Sample Data
"alt_blocks_count": 14 "difficulty": 289121015 "grey_peerlist_size": 4997 "hashrate": 9637367 "height": 502354 "incoming_connections_count": 12 "last_known_block_index": 502352 "network_height": 502354 "outgoing_connections_count": 8 "status": "OK" "synced": true "tx_count": 473486 "tx_pool_size": 1 "version": "0.5.0" "white_peerlist_size": 1000
daemon.api.fee()
Sample Data
"address": "TRTLv27NRnfaGLvxDuE1SfQt2zbvfEiTNJtFcBNZwUAAQYL1oxejK1c8PaCTCa61he99a31So9KNaQ4kGkKjjstwhyM2FqdwUyU" "amount": 5000 "status": "OK"
daemon.api.getTransactions()
Sample Data
"missed_tx": "status": "OK" "txs_as_hex":
daemon.api.peers()
Sample Data
"peers": "174.21.179.198:11897" "94.23.49.75:11897" "..." "80.14.183.25:11897" "71.193.1.94:11897" "status": "OK"
daemon.api.sendRawTransaction()
Note: This method is not implemented.
WebSocket Connections
A WebSocket socket.io server is initialized if enableWebSocket
is true in the initialization of the module. The server is created on the rpcBindPort
specified + 1
.
Some events require that the socket is authenticated via a auth
event.
If the nonce column is Yes you may send a nonce in the payload in addition to the options defined.
Client Initiated Events
Event | JSON Payload | Nonce Honored | Payload |
---|---|---|---|
auth | No | No | string sha256 hash of password |
getBlocks | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlocks(options) |
getBlock | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlocks(options) |
getTransaction | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getTransaction(options) |
getTransactionPool | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getTransactionPool() |
getBlockCount | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockCount() |
getBlockHash | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockHash(options) |
getBlockTemplate | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockTemplate(options) |
submitBlock | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.submitBlock(options) |
getLastBlockHeader | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getLastBlockHeader() |
getBlockHeaderByHash | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockHeaderByHash(options) |
getBlockHeaderByHeight | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockHeaderByHeight(options) |
getCurrencyId | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getCurrencyId() |
height | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getHeight() |
info | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getInfo() |
fee | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.fee() |
getTransactions | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getTransactions() |
peers | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.getPeers() |
sendRawTransaction | Yes | Yes | See daemon.api.sendRawTransaction() |
Server Initiated Events
Event | Authentication Required | Payload |
---|---|---|
block | No | See Event - block |
stopped | Yes | See Event - stopped |
data | Yes | See Event - data |
desync | Yes | See Event - desync |
down | Yes | See Event - down |
error | Yes | See Event - error |
info | Yes | See Event - info |
ready | Yes | See Event - ready |
start | Yes | See Event - start |
started | Yes | See Event - started |
synced | Yes | See Event - synced |
syncing | Yes | See Event - syncing |
topblock | No | See Event - topblock |
warning | Yes | *See Event - warning |
Server Responses
All responses except for auth return data in the same format.
"nonce": 123456 "data": <payload>
Event | Nonced | Payload |
---|---|---|
auth | No | boolean Responds to a client initiated auth event. If true the password was correct. If false the password was incorrect. |
getBlocks | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlocks(options) |
getBlock | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlocks(options) |
getTransaction | Yes | See daemon.api.getTransaction(options) |
getTransactionPool | Yes | See daemon.api.getTransactionPool() |
getBlockCount | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockCount() |
getBlockHash | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockHash(options) |
getBlockTemplate | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockTemplate(options) |
submitBlock | Yes | See daemon.api.submitBlock(options) |
getLastBlockHeader | Yes | See daemon.api.getLastBlockHeader() |
getBlockHeaderByHash | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockHeaderByHash(options) |
getBlockHeaderByHeight | Yes | See daemon.api.getBlockHeaderByHeight(options) |
getCurrencyId | Yes | See daemon.api.getCurrencyId() |
height | Yes | See daemon.api.height() |
info | Yes | See daemon.api.info() |
fee | Yes | See daemon.api.fee() |
getTransactions | Yes | See daemon.api.getTransactions() |
peers | Yes | See daemon.api.peers() |
sendRawTransaction | Yes | See daemon.api.sendRawTransaction() |
License
Copyright (c) 2018, Brandon Lehmann, The TurtleCoin Developers
Please see the included LICENSE file for more information.