Use dcrd and GCS filters to find voted/revoked tickets rather than using
the dcrwallet TicketInfo RPC.
Using TicketInfo was a bit flakey because wallets do not always
correctly detect votes/revokes, and as a result VSP admins may notice
that with this change vspd detects some historic voted/revoked tickets
which TicketInfo never detected.
Fix a bug where it appeared as though a notification handler was being
attached to the dcrd RPC client, but actually no notifications were
received until the client was disconnected a new one was created.
Now, rather than delaying attaching the notification handler, it is
attached immediately upon client creation and vspd does not start
handling the received notifications until it is ready.
sendrawtransaction is expected to fail if the transaction already exists in the mempool or a mined block. dcrd returns two different errors which can indicate this situation. Handling for one of them already existed, and this commit adds handling for the other.
This removes all of the global loggers from the project and replaces them with loggers which are instantiated in vspd.go and passed down as params.
To support this, the background package was removed. It only contained one file so it was a bit pointless anyway. It only existed so background tasks could have their own named logger.
While removing the globals from background.go it also made sense to clean up the use of dcrd RPC clients. Previously two seperate clients were maintained, one for making RPC calls and one for receiving notifications. These clients have been unified.
- 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.
