// Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The btcsuite developers // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package wire import ( "io" "github.com/kaspanet/kaspad/util/daghash" ) // MsgGetHeaders implements the Message interface and represents a bitcoin // getheaders message. It is used to request a list of block headers for // blocks starting after the last known hash in the slice of block locator // hashes. The list is returned via a headers message (MsgHeaders) and is // limited by a specific hash to stop at or the maximum number of block headers // per message, which is currently 2000. // // Set the StopHash field to the hash at which to stop and use // AddBlockLocatorHash to build up the list of block locator hashes. // // The algorithm for building the block locator hashes should be to add the // hashes in reverse order until you reach the genesis block. In order to keep // the list of locator hashes to a resonable number of entries, first add the // most recent 10 block hashes, then double the step each loop iteration to // exponentially decrease the number of hashes the further away from head and // closer to the genesis block you get. type MsgGetHeaders struct { StartHash *daghash.Hash StopHash *daghash.Hash } // BtcDecode decodes r using the bitcoin protocol encoding into the receiver. // This is part of the Message interface implementation. func (msg *MsgGetHeaders) BtcDecode(r io.Reader, pver uint32) error { msg.StartHash = &daghash.Hash{} err := ReadElement(r, msg.StartHash) if err != nil { return err } msg.StopHash = &daghash.Hash{} return ReadElement(r, msg.StopHash) } // BtcEncode encodes the receiver to w using the bitcoin protocol encoding. // This is part of the Message interface implementation. func (msg *MsgGetHeaders) BtcEncode(w io.Writer, pver uint32) error { err := WriteElement(w, msg.StartHash) if err != nil { return err } return WriteElement(w, msg.StopHash) } // Command returns the protocol command string for the message. This is part // of the Message interface implementation. func (msg *MsgGetHeaders) Command() string { return CmdGetHeaders } // MaxPayloadLength returns the maximum length the payload can be for the // receiver. This is part of the Message interface implementation. func (msg *MsgGetHeaders) MaxPayloadLength(pver uint32) uint32 { // start hash + stop hash. return 2 * daghash.HashSize } // NewMsgGetHeaders returns a new bitcoin getheaders message that conforms to // the Message interface. See MsgGetHeaders for details. func NewMsgGetHeaders(startHash, stopHash *daghash.Hash) *MsgGetHeaders { return &MsgGetHeaders{ StartHash: startHash, StopHash: stopHash, } }