The `PopulateAndValidateSnapshot` function introduced in
f6e2da5fb7 from #19806 has been setting fake
`nTx` and `nChainTx` values that can show up in RPC results (see #29328) and
make `CBlockIndex` state hard to reason about, because it is difficult to know
whether the values are real or fake.
Revert to previous behavior of setting `nTx` and `nChainTx` to 0 when the
values are unknown, instead of faking them.
This commit fixes at least two assert failures in the (pindex->nChainTx ==
pindex->nTx + prev_chain_tx) check that would happen previously. Tests for
these failures are added separately in the next two commits.
Compatibility note: This change could result in -checkblockindex failures if a
snapshot was loaded by a previous version of Bitcoin Core and not fully
validated, because fake nTx values will have been saved to the block index. It
would be pretty easy to avoid these failures by adding some compatibility code
to `LoadBlockIndex` and changing `nTx` values from 1 to 0 when they are fake
(when `(pindex->nStatus & BLOCK_VALID_MASK) < BLOCK_VALID_TRANSACTIONS`), but a
little simpler not to worry about being compatible in this case.
When simulating a snapshot, remove the HAVE_DATA status for blocks below the
snapshot height, to simulate never having downloaded them at all. This makes
tests more realistic (and more closely match what will happen when using
assumeutxo).
The fs.* files are already part of the libbitcoin_util library. With the
introduction of the fs_helpers.* it makes sense to move fs.* into the
util/ directory as well.
This CreateAndActivateUTXOSnapshot parameter is necessary once we
perform snapshot completion within ABC, since the existing UpdateTip
test will fail because the IBD chain that has generated the snapshot
will exceed the base of the snapshot.
Being able to test snapshots being loaded into a mostly-uninitialized
datadir allows for more realistic unittest scenarios.
Add more fs::path operator/ and operator+ overloads to prevent unsafe
string->path conversions on Windows that would cause strings to be
decoded according to the current Windows locale & code page instead of
the correct string encoding.
Update application code to deal with loss of implicit string->path
conversions by calling fs::u8path or fs::PathFromString explicitly, or
by just changing variable types from std::string to fs::path to avoid
conversions altoghther, or make them happen earlier.
In all cases, there's no change in behavior either (1) because strings
only contained ASCII characters and would be decoded the same regardless
of what encoding was used, or (2) because of the 1:1 mapping between
paths and strings using the PathToString and PathFromString functions.
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
ffd09281fe rpc: various fixups for dumptxoutset (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
This is part of the [assumeutxo project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/11) (parent PR: #15606)
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A few fixes to make this RPC actually useful when generating snapshots.
- Generate an assumeutxo hash and display it (sort of a bugfix)
- Add nchaintx to output (necessary for use in chainparams entry)
- Add path of serialized UTXO file to output
ACKs for top commit:
laanwj:
Code review ACK ffd09281fe
Tree-SHA512: b0b5fd5138dea0e21258b1b18ab75bf3fd1628522cc1dbafa81af9cb9fa96562a1c39124fdb31057f256bfc560f462f907e9fe5e209b577b3f57afae2b7be826
- Actually generate an assumeutxo hash and display it
- Add nchaintx to output (necessary for use in chainparams entry)
- Add path of serialized UTXO file to output
There is no change in behavior. This just helps prepare for the
transition from boost::filesystem to std::filesystem by avoiding calls
to methods which will be unsafe after the transaction to std::filesystem
to due lack of a boost::filesystem::path::imbue equivalent and inability
to set a predictable locale.
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kiminuo <kiminuo@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>
