- Rename all instances to "shutdownCtx" to be really explicit. This context is special in that it can be closed at any time without warning, so it should be obvious to the reader.
- Don't use shutdownCtx in RPC clients. Clients should not stop working immediately when shutdown is signalled, they need to keep working while the process is shutting down.
`CanTicketVote` doesn't really fit into the RPC client code as it is more of a business logic function. Moving it into the webapi package is more appropriate.
* Remove global cache variable.
Rather than maintaining cached data in a global variable, instantiate a cache struct and keep it in the `Server` struct.
* Store net params in RPC clients.
This means net params only need to be supplied once at startup, and also removes a global instance of net params in `background.go`.
This allows both tspend and treasury policies to be set by clients on a per-ticket basis. Preferences can be set when initially registering a ticket with `/payfee`, and can be later updated using `/setvotechoices`.
Any requests which alter treasury/tspend policy will be stored in the database using the existing accountability system.
**Note:** This does not include consistency checking, it will need to be added later when dcrwallet has an RPC to retrieve policies in batches.
vspd will now call dcrd RPC `getblockchaininfo` to determine if DCP-0010 is active, and take that information into consideration when calculating ticket registration fee.
This renames "Voting wallet status" to "VSP status" and it now includes the status of the local dcrd instance. This change impacts both the /admin page of the UI, and the response of the /admin/status API endpoint.
This commit marks the point at which vspd will stop working against dcrd 1.6 and start to target master.
The dcrwallet RPC version has not changed, so vspd continues to work with dcrwallet 1.6 or master.
* Add network proportion to homepage and /vspinfo.
Proportion is calculated using the number of tickets currently registered with the VSP, divided by the total size of the network ticket pool as reported by `getblockheader`.
The value will only ever be an estimate because:
- it's possible for a single ticket to be added to multiple VSPs.
- vspd does not distinguish between immature and live tickets, whereas `getblockheader` only reports live tickets.
- `getblockheader` is reporting the size of the ticket pool as of the previous block, not the current block.
* xaur suggestions
* Show missed ticket %, not just the raw number.
- Fee tx status is now tracked using a dedicated field, with values none/received/broadcast/confirmed/error.
- Fee tx hex and hash are now both set in /payfee. The absense of txhash is no longer used to determine if a fee tx has been broadcast or not.
- setvotechoices can no longer be called before a fee is received.
- Remove `binding:required` from response types. It has no effect on responses, it is only needed on request types which are validated by gin.
