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Package rpcclient implements a websocket-enabled Decred JSON-RPC client. This client provides a robust and easy to use client for interfacing with a Decred RPC server that uses a mostly btcd/bitcoin core style Decred JSON-RPC API. This client has been tested with dcrd (https://github.com/decred/dcrd) and dcrwallet (https://github.com/decred/dcrwallet). In addition to the compatible standard HTTP POST JSON-RPC API, dcrd and dcrwallet provide a websocket interface that is more efficient than the standard HTTP POST method of accessing RPC. The section below discusses the differences between HTTP POST and websockets. By default, this client assumes the RPC server supports websockets and has TLS enabled. In practice, this currently means it assumes you are talking to dcrd or dcrwallet by default. However, configuration options are provided to fall back to HTTP POST and disable TLS to support talking with inferior bitcoin core style RPC servers. In HTTP POST-based JSON-RPC, every request creates a new HTTP connection, issues the call, waits for the response, and closes the connection. This adds quite a bit of overhead to every call and lacks flexibility for features such as notifications. In contrast, the websocket-based JSON-RPC interface provided by dcrd and dcrwallet only uses a single connection that remains open and allows asynchronous bi-directional communication. The websocket interface supports all of the same commands as HTTP POST, but they can be invoked without having to go through a connect/disconnect cycle for every call. In addition, the websocket interface provides other nice features such as the ability to register for asynchronous notifications of various events. The client provides both a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous API. The synchronous (blocking) API is typically sufficient for most use cases. It works by issuing the RPC and blocking until the response is received. This allows straightforward code where you have the response as soon as the function returns. The asynchronous API works on the concept of futures. When you invoke the async version of a command, it will quickly return an instance of a type that promises to provide the result of the RPC at some future time. In the background, the RPC call is issued and the result is stored in the returned instance. Invoking the Receive method on the returned instance will either return the result immediately if it has already arrived, or block until it has. This is useful since it provides the caller with greater control over concurrency. The first important part of notifications is to realize that they will only work when connected via websockets. This should intuitively make sense because HTTP POST mode does not keep a connection open! All notifications provided by dcrd require registration to opt-in. For example, if you want to be notified when funds are received by a set of addresses, you register the addresses via the NotifyReceived (or NotifyReceivedAsync) function. Notifications are exposed by the client through the use of callback handlers which are setup via a NotificationHandlers instance that is specified by the caller when creating the client. It is important that these notification handlers complete quickly since they are intentionally in the main read loop and will block further reads until they complete. This provides the caller with the flexibility to decide what to do when notifications are coming in faster than they are being handled. In particular this means issuing a blocking RPC call from a callback handler will cause a deadlock as more server responses won't be read until the callback returns, but the callback would be waiting for a response. Thus, any additional RPCs must be issued an a completely decoupled manner. By default, when running in websockets mode, this client will automatically keep trying to reconnect to the RPC server should the connection be lost. There is a back-off in between each connection attempt until it reaches one try per minute. Once a connection is re-established, all previously registered notifications are automatically re-registered and any in-flight commands are re-issued. This means from the caller's perspective, the request simply takes longer to complete. The caller may invoke the Shutdown method on the client to force the client to cease reconnect attempts and return ErrClientShutdown for all outstanding commands. The automatic reconnection can be disabled by setting the DisableAutoReconnect flag to true in the connection config when creating the client. Minor RPC Server Differences and Chain/Wallet Separation Some of the commands are extensions specific to a particular RPC server. For example, the DebugLevel call is an extension only provided by dcrd (and dcrwallet passthrough). Therefore if you call one of these commands against an RPC server that doesn't provide them, you will get an unimplemented error from the server. An effort has been made to call out which commmands are extensions in their documentation. Also, it is important to realize that dcrd intentionally separates the wallet functionality into a separate process named dcrwallet. This means if you are connected to the dcrd RPC server directly, only the RPCs which are related to chain services will be available. Depending on your application, you might only need chain-related RPCs. In contrast, dcrwallet provides pass through treatment for chain-related RPCs, so it supports them in addition to wallet-related RPCs. There are 3 categories of errors that will be returned throughout this package: The first category of errors are typically one of ErrInvalidAuth, ErrInvalidEndpoint, ErrClientDisconnect, or ErrClientShutdown. NOTE: The ErrClientDisconnect will not be returned unless the DisableAutoReconnect flag is set since the client automatically handles reconnect by default as previously described. The second category of errors typically indicates a programmer error and as such the type can vary, but usually will be best handled by simply showing/logging it. The third category of errors, that is errors returned by the server, can be detected by type asserting the error in a *dcrjson.RPCError. For example, to detect if a command is unimplemented by the remote RPC server: The following full-blown client examples are in the examples directory:

Package health is a library that enables *async* dependency health checking for services running on an orchestrated container platform such as kubernetes or mesos. For additional overview, documentation and contribution guidelines, refer to the project's "README.md". For example usage, refer to https://github.com/InVisionApp/go-health/tree/master/examples/simple-http-server.

Package rpcclient implements a websocket-enabled Decred JSON-RPC client. This client provides a robust and easy to use client for interfacing with a Decred RPC server that uses a mostly btcd/bitcoin core style Decred JSON-RPC API. This client has been tested with dcrd (https://github.com/decred/dcrd) and dcrwallet (https://github.com/decred/dcrwallet). In addition to the compatible standard HTTP POST JSON-RPC API, dcrd and dcrwallet provide a websocket interface that is more efficient than the standard HTTP POST method of accessing RPC. The section below discusses the differences between HTTP POST and websockets. By default, this client assumes the RPC server supports websockets and has TLS enabled. In practice, this currently means it assumes you are talking to dcrd or dcrwallet by default. However, configuration options are provided to fall back to HTTP POST and disable TLS to support talking with inferior bitcoin core style RPC servers. In HTTP POST-based JSON-RPC, every request creates a new HTTP connection, issues the call, waits for the response, and closes the connection. This adds quite a bit of overhead to every call and lacks flexibility for features such as notifications. In contrast, the websocket-based JSON-RPC interface provided by dcrd and dcrwallet only uses a single connection that remains open and allows asynchronous bi-directional communication. The websocket interface supports all of the same commands as HTTP POST, but they can be invoked without having to go through a connect/disconnect cycle for every call. In addition, the websocket interface provides other nice features such as the ability to register for asynchronous notifications of various events. The client provides both a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous API. The synchronous (blocking) API is typically sufficient for most use cases. It works by issuing the RPC and blocking until the response is received. This allows straightforward code where you have the response as soon as the function returns. The asynchronous API works on the concept of futures. When you invoke the async version of a command, it will quickly return an instance of a type that promises to provide the result of the RPC at some future time. In the background, the RPC call is issued and the result is stored in the returned instance. Invoking the Receive method on the returned instance will either return the result immediately if it has already arrived, or block until it has. This is useful since it provides the caller with greater control over concurrency. The first important part of notifications is to realize that they will only work when connected via websockets. This should intuitively make sense because HTTP POST mode does not keep a connection open! All notifications provided by dcrd require registration to opt-in. For example, if you want to be notified when funds are received by a set of addresses, you register the addresses via the NotifyReceived (or NotifyReceivedAsync) function. Notifications are exposed by the client through the use of callback handlers which are setup via a NotificationHandlers instance that is specified by the caller when creating the client. It is important that these notification handlers complete quickly since they are intentionally in the main read loop and will block further reads until they complete. This provides the caller with the flexibility to decide what to do when notifications are coming in faster than they are being handled. In particular this means issuing a blocking RPC call from a callback handler will cause a deadlock as more server responses won't be read until the callback returns, but the callback would be waiting for a response. Thus, any additional RPCs must be issued an a completely decoupled manner. By default, when running in websockets mode, this client will automatically keep trying to reconnect to the RPC server should the connection be lost. There is a back-off in between each connection attempt until it reaches one try per minute. Once a connection is re-established, all previously registered notifications are automatically re-registered and any in-flight commands are re-issued. This means from the caller's perspective, the request simply takes longer to complete. The caller may invoke the Shutdown method on the client to force the client to cease reconnect attempts and return ErrClientShutdown for all outstanding commands. The automatic reconnection can be disabled by setting the DisableAutoReconnect flag to true in the connection config when creating the client. Minor RPC Server Differences and Chain/Wallet Separation Some of the commands are extensions specific to a particular RPC server. For example, the DebugLevel call is an extension only provided by dcrd (and dcrwallet passthrough). Therefore if you call one of these commands against an RPC server that doesn't provide them, you will get an unimplemented error from the server. An effort has been made to call out which commmands are extensions in their documentation. Also, it is important to realize that dcrd intentionally separates the wallet functionality into a separate process named dcrwallet. This means if you are connected to the dcrd RPC server directly, only the RPCs which are related to chain services will be available. Depending on your application, you might only need chain-related RPCs. In contrast, dcrwallet provides pass through treatment for chain-related RPCs, so it supports them in addition to wallet-related RPCs. There are 3 categories of errors that will be returned throughout this package: The first category of errors are typically one of ErrInvalidAuth, ErrInvalidEndpoint, ErrClientDisconnect, or ErrClientShutdown. NOTE: The ErrClientDisconnect will not be returned unless the DisableAutoReconnect flag is set since the client automatically handles reconnect by default as previously described. The second category of errors typically indicates a programmer error and as such the type can vary, but usually will be best handled by simply showing/logging it. The third category of errors, that is errors returned by the server, can be detected by type asserting the error in a *dcrjson.RPCError. For example, to detect if a command is unimplemented by the remote RPC server: The following full-blown client examples are in the examples directory:

Package rpcclient implements a websocket-enabled Decred JSON-RPC client. This client provides a robust and easy to use client for interfacing with a Decred RPC server that uses a mostly btcd/bitcoin core style Decred JSON-RPC API. This client has been tested with dcrd (https://github.com/decred/dcrd) and dcrwallet (https://github.com/decred/dcrwallet). In addition to the compatible standard HTTP POST JSON-RPC API, dcrd and dcrwallet provide a websocket interface that is more efficient than the standard HTTP POST method of accessing RPC. The section below discusses the differences between HTTP POST and websockets. By default, this client assumes the RPC server supports websockets and has TLS enabled. In practice, this currently means it assumes you are talking to dcrd or dcrwallet by default. However, configuration options are provided to fall back to HTTP POST and disable TLS to support talking with inferior bitcoin core style RPC servers. In HTTP POST-based JSON-RPC, every request creates a new HTTP connection, issues the call, waits for the response, and closes the connection. This adds quite a bit of overhead to every call and lacks flexibility for features such as notifications. In contrast, the websocket-based JSON-RPC interface provided by dcrd and dcrwallet only uses a single connection that remains open and allows asynchronous bi-directional communication. The websocket interface supports all of the same commands as HTTP POST, but they can be invoked without having to go through a connect/disconnect cycle for every call. In addition, the websocket interface provides other nice features such as the ability to register for asynchronous notifications of various events. The client provides both a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous API. The synchronous (blocking) API is typically sufficient for most use cases. It works by issuing the RPC and blocking until the response is received. This allows straightforward code where you have the response as soon as the function returns. The asynchronous API works on the concept of futures. When you invoke the async version of a command, it will quickly return an instance of a type that promises to provide the result of the RPC at some future time. In the background, the RPC call is issued and the result is stored in the returned instance. Invoking the Receive method on the returned instance will either return the result immediately if it has already arrived, or block until it has. This is useful since it provides the caller with greater control over concurrency. The first important part of notifications is to realize that they will only work when connected via websockets. This should intuitively make sense because HTTP POST mode does not keep a connection open! All notifications provided by dcrd require registration to opt-in. For example, if you want to be notified when funds are received by a set of addresses, you register the addresses via the NotifyReceived (or NotifyReceivedAsync) function. Notifications are exposed by the client through the use of callback handlers which are setup via a NotificationHandlers instance that is specified by the caller when creating the client. It is important that these notification handlers complete quickly since they are intentionally in the main read loop and will block further reads until they complete. This provides the caller with the flexibility to decide what to do when notifications are coming in faster than they are being handled. In particular this means issuing a blocking RPC call from a callback handler will cause a deadlock as more server responses won't be read until the callback returns, but the callback would be waiting for a response. Thus, any additional RPCs must be issued an a completely decoupled manner. By default, when running in websockets mode, this client will automatically keep trying to reconnect to the RPC server should the connection be lost. There is a back-off in between each connection attempt until it reaches one try per minute. Once a connection is re-established, all previously registered notifications are automatically re-registered and any in-flight commands are re-issued. This means from the caller's perspective, the request simply takes longer to complete. The caller may invoke the Shutdown method on the client to force the client to cease reconnect attempts and return ErrClientShutdown for all outstanding commands. The automatic reconnection can be disabled by setting the DisableAutoReconnect flag to true in the connection config when creating the client. Minor RPC Server Differences and Chain/Wallet Separation Some of the commands are extensions specific to a particular RPC server. For example, the DebugLevel call is an extension only provided by dcrd (and dcrwallet passthrough). Therefore if you call one of these commands against an RPC server that doesn't provide them, you will get an unimplemented error from the server. An effort has been made to call out which commands are extensions in their documentation. Also, it is important to realize that dcrd intentionally separates the wallet functionality into a separate process named dcrwallet. This means if you are connected to the dcrd RPC server directly, only the RPCs which are related to chain services will be available. Depending on your application, you might only need chain-related RPCs. In contrast, dcrwallet provides pass through treatment for chain-related RPCs, so it supports them in addition to wallet-related RPCs. There are 3 categories of errors that will be returned throughout this package: The first category of errors are typically one of ErrInvalidAuth, ErrInvalidEndpoint, ErrClientDisconnect, or ErrClientShutdown. NOTE: The ErrClientDisconnect will not be returned unless the DisableAutoReconnect flag is set since the client automatically handles reconnect by default as previously described. The second category of errors typically indicates a programmer error and as such the type can vary, but usually will be best handled by simply showing/logging it. The third category of errors, that is errors returned by the server, can be detected by type asserting the error in a *dcrjson.RPCError. For example, to detect if a command is unimplemented by the remote RPC server: The following full-blown client examples are in the examples directory:

Package rpcclient implements a websocket-enabled Decred JSON-RPC client. This client provides a robust and easy to use client for interfacing with a Decred RPC server that uses a mostly btcd/bitcoin core style Decred JSON-RPC API. This client has been tested with dcrd (https://github.com/decred/dcrd) and dcrwallet (https://github.com/decred/dcrwallet). In addition to the compatible standard HTTP POST JSON-RPC API, dcrd and dcrwallet provide a websocket interface that is more efficient than the standard HTTP POST method of accessing RPC. The section below discusses the differences between HTTP POST and websockets. By default, this client assumes the RPC server supports websockets and has TLS enabled. In practice, this currently means it assumes you are talking to dcrd or dcrwallet by default. However, configuration options are provided to fall back to HTTP POST and disable TLS to support talking with inferior bitcoin core style RPC servers. In HTTP POST-based JSON-RPC, every request creates a new HTTP connection, issues the call, waits for the response, and closes the connection. This adds quite a bit of overhead to every call and lacks flexibility for features such as notifications. In contrast, the websocket-based JSON-RPC interface provided by dcrd and dcrwallet only uses a single connection that remains open and allows asynchronous bi-directional communication. The websocket interface supports all of the same commands as HTTP POST, but they can be invoked without having to go through a connect/disconnect cycle for every call. In addition, the websocket interface provides other nice features such as the ability to register for asynchronous notifications of various events. The client provides both a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous API. The synchronous (blocking) API is typically sufficient for most use cases. It works by issuing the RPC and blocking until the response is received. This allows straightforward code where you have the response as soon as the function returns. The asynchronous API works on the concept of futures. When you invoke the async version of a command, it will quickly return an instance of a type that promises to provide the result of the RPC at some future time. In the background, the RPC call is issued and the result is stored in the returned instance. Invoking the Receive method on the returned instance will either return the result immediately if it has already arrived, or block until it has. This is useful since it provides the caller with greater control over concurrency. The first important part of notifications is to realize that they will only work when connected via websockets. This should intuitively make sense because HTTP POST mode does not keep a connection open! All notifications provided by dcrd require registration to opt-in. For example, if you want to be notified when funds are received by a set of addresses, you register the addresses via the NotifyReceived (or NotifyReceivedAsync) function. Notifications are exposed by the client through the use of callback handlers which are setup via a NotificationHandlers instance that is specified by the caller when creating the client. It is important that these notification handlers complete quickly since they are intentionally in the main read loop and will block further reads until they complete. This provides the caller with the flexibility to decide what to do when notifications are coming in faster than they are being handled. In particular this means issuing a blocking RPC call from a callback handler will cause a deadlock as more server responses won't be read until the callback returns, but the callback would be waiting for a response. Thus, any additional RPCs must be issued an a completely decoupled manner. By default, when running in websockets mode, this client will automatically keep trying to reconnect to the RPC server should the connection be lost. There is a back-off in between each connection attempt until it reaches one try per minute. Once a connection is re-established, all previously registered notifications are automatically re-registered and any in-flight commands are re-issued. This means from the caller's perspective, the request simply takes longer to complete. The caller may invoke the Shutdown method on the client to force the client to cease reconnect attempts and return ErrClientShutdown for all outstanding commands. The automatic reconnection can be disabled by setting the DisableAutoReconnect flag to true in the connection config when creating the client. Minor RPC Server Differences and Chain/Wallet Separation Some of the commands are extensions specific to a particular RPC server. For example, the DebugLevel call is an extension only provided by dcrd (and dcrwallet passthrough). Therefore if you call one of these commands against an RPC server that doesn't provide them, you will get an unimplemented error from the server. An effort has been made to call out which commmands are extensions in their documentation. Also, it is important to realize that dcrd intentionally separates the wallet functionality into a separate process named dcrwallet. This means if you are connected to the dcrd RPC server directly, only the RPCs which are related to chain services will be available. Depending on your application, you might only need chain-related RPCs. In contrast, dcrwallet provides pass through treatment for chain-related RPCs, so it supports them in addition to wallet-related RPCs. There are 3 categories of errors that will be returned throughout this package: The first category of errors are typically one of ErrInvalidAuth, ErrInvalidEndpoint, ErrClientDisconnect, or ErrClientShutdown. NOTE: The ErrClientDisconnect will not be returned unless the DisableAutoReconnect flag is set since the client automatically handles reconnect by default as previously described. The second category of errors typically indicates a programmer error and as such the type can vary, but usually will be best handled by simply showing/logging it. The third category of errors, that is errors returned by the server, can be detected by type asserting the error in a *dcrjson.RPCError. For example, to detect if a command is unimplemented by the remote RPC server: The following full-blown client examples are in the examples directory:

Package rpcclient implements a websocket-enabled Decred JSON-RPC client. This client provides a robust and easy to use client for interfacing with a Decred RPC server that uses a mostly btcd/bitcoin core style Decred JSON-RPC API. This client has been tested with dcrd (https://github.com/decred/dcrd) and dcrwallet (https://github.com/decred/dcrwallet). In addition to the compatible standard HTTP POST JSON-RPC API, dcrd and dcrwallet provide a websocket interface that is more efficient than the standard HTTP POST method of accessing RPC. The section below discusses the differences between HTTP POST and websockets. By default, this client assumes the RPC server supports websockets and has TLS enabled. In practice, this currently means it assumes you are talking to dcrd or dcrwallet by default. However, configuration options are provided to fall back to HTTP POST and disable TLS to support talking with inferior bitcoin core style RPC servers. In HTTP POST-based JSON-RPC, every request creates a new HTTP connection, issues the call, waits for the response, and closes the connection. This adds quite a bit of overhead to every call and lacks flexibility for features such as notifications. In contrast, the websocket-based JSON-RPC interface provided by dcrd and dcrwallet only uses a single connection that remains open and allows asynchronous bi-directional communication. The websocket interface supports all of the same commands as HTTP POST, but they can be invoked without having to go through a connect/disconnect cycle for every call. In addition, the websocket interface provides other nice features such as the ability to register for asynchronous notifications of various events. The client provides both a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous API. The synchronous (blocking) API is typically sufficient for most use cases. It works by issuing the RPC and blocking until the response is received. This allows straightforward code where you have the response as soon as the function returns. The asynchronous API works on the concept of futures. When you invoke the async version of a command, it will quickly return an instance of a type that promises to provide the result of the RPC at some future time. In the background, the RPC call is issued and the result is stored in the returned instance. Invoking the Receive method on the returned instance will either return the result immediately if it has already arrived, or block until it has. This is useful since it provides the caller with greater control over concurrency. The first important part of notifications is to realize that they will only work when connected via websockets. This should intuitively make sense because HTTP POST mode does not keep a connection open! All notifications provided by dcrd require registration to opt-in. For example, if you want to be notified when funds are received by a set of addresses, you register the addresses via the NotifyReceived (or NotifyReceivedAsync) function. Notifications are exposed by the client through the use of callback handlers which are setup via a NotificationHandlers instance that is specified by the caller when creating the client. It is important that these notification handlers complete quickly since they are intentionally in the main read loop and will block further reads until they complete. This provides the caller with the flexibility to decide what to do when notifications are coming in faster than they are being handled. In particular this means issuing a blocking RPC call from a callback handler will cause a deadlock as more server responses won't be read until the callback returns, but the callback would be waiting for a response. Thus, any additional RPCs must be issued an a completely decoupled manner. By default, when running in websockets mode, this client will automatically keep trying to reconnect to the RPC server should the connection be lost. There is a back-off in between each connection attempt until it reaches one try per minute. Once a connection is re-established, all previously registered notifications are automatically re-registered and any in-flight commands are re-issued. This means from the caller's perspective, the request simply takes longer to complete. The caller may invoke the Shutdown method on the client to force the client to cease reconnect attempts and return ErrClientShutdown for all outstanding commands. The automatic reconnection can be disabled by setting the DisableAutoReconnect flag to true in the connection config when creating the client. This package only provides methods for dcrd RPCs. Using the websocket connection and request-response mapping provided by rpcclient with arbitrary methods or different servers is possible through the generic RawRequest and RawRequestAsync methods (each of which deal with json.RawMessage for parameters and return results). Previous versions of this package provided methods for dcrwallet's JSON-RPC server in addition to dcrd. These were removed in major version 6 of this module. Projects depending on these calls are advised to use the decred.org/dcrwallet/rpc/client/dcrwallet package which is able to wrap rpcclient.Client using the aforementioned RawRequest method: Using struct embedding, it is possible to create a single variable with the combined method sets of both rpcclient.Client and dcrwallet.Client: This technique is valuable as dcrwallet (syncing in RPC mode) will passthrough any unknown RPCs to the backing dcrd server, proxying requests and responses for the client. There are 3 categories of errors that will be returned throughout this package: The first category of errors are typically one of ErrInvalidAuth, ErrInvalidEndpoint, ErrClientDisconnect, or ErrClientShutdown. NOTE: The ErrClientDisconnect will not be returned unless the DisableAutoReconnect flag is set since the client automatically handles reconnect by default as previously described. The second category of errors typically indicates a programmer error and as such the type can vary, but usually will be best handled by simply showing/logging it. The third category of errors, that is errors returned by the server, can be detected by type asserting the error in a *dcrjson.RPCError. For example, to detect if a command is unimplemented by the remote RPC server: The following full-blown client examples are in the examples directory:

Package rpcclient implements a websocket-enabled Decred JSON-RPC client. This client provides a robust and easy to use client for interfacing with a Decred RPC server that uses a mostly btcd/bitcoin core style Decred JSON-RPC API. This client has been tested with dcrd (https://github.com/decred/dcrd) and dcrwallet (https://github.com/decred/dcrwallet). In addition to the compatible standard HTTP POST JSON-RPC API, dcrd and dcrwallet provide a websocket interface that is more efficient than the standard HTTP POST method of accessing RPC. The section below discusses the differences between HTTP POST and websockets. By default, this client assumes the RPC server supports websockets and has TLS enabled. In practice, this currently means it assumes you are talking to dcrd or dcrwallet by default. However, configuration options are provided to fall back to HTTP POST and disable TLS to support talking with inferior bitcoin core style RPC servers. In HTTP POST-based JSON-RPC, every request creates a new HTTP connection, issues the call, waits for the response, and closes the connection. This adds quite a bit of overhead to every call and lacks flexibility for features such as notifications. In contrast, the websocket-based JSON-RPC interface provided by dcrd and dcrwallet only uses a single connection that remains open and allows asynchronous bi-directional communication. The websocket interface supports all of the same commands as HTTP POST, but they can be invoked without having to go through a connect/disconnect cycle for every call. In addition, the websocket interface provides other nice features such as the ability to register for asynchronous notifications of various events. The client provides both a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous API. The synchronous (blocking) API is typically sufficient for most use cases. It works by issuing the RPC and blocking until the response is received. This allows straightforward code where you have the response as soon as the function returns. The asynchronous API works on the concept of futures. When you invoke the async version of a command, it will quickly return an instance of a type that promises to provide the result of the RPC at some future time. In the background, the RPC call is issued and the result is stored in the returned instance. Invoking the Receive method on the returned instance will either return the result immediately if it has already arrived, or block until it has. This is useful since it provides the caller with greater control over concurrency. The first important part of notifications is to realize that they will only work when connected via websockets. This should intuitively make sense because HTTP POST mode does not keep a connection open! All notifications provided by dcrd require registration to opt-in. For example, if you want to be notified when funds are received by a set of addresses, you register the addresses via the NotifyReceived (or NotifyReceivedAsync) function. Notifications are exposed by the client through the use of callback handlers which are setup via a NotificationHandlers instance that is specified by the caller when creating the client. It is important that these notification handlers complete quickly since they are intentionally in the main read loop and will block further reads until they complete. This provides the caller with the flexibility to decide what to do when notifications are coming in faster than they are being handled. In particular this means issuing a blocking RPC call from a callback handler will cause a deadlock as more server responses won't be read until the callback returns, but the callback would be waiting for a response. Thus, any additional RPCs must be issued an a completely decoupled manner. By default, when running in websockets mode, this client will automatically keep trying to reconnect to the RPC server should the connection be lost. There is a back-off in between each connection attempt until it reaches one try per minute. Once a connection is re-established, all previously registered notifications are automatically re-registered and any in-flight commands are re-issued. This means from the caller's perspective, the request simply takes longer to complete. The caller may invoke the Shutdown method on the client to force the client to cease reconnect attempts and return ErrClientShutdown for all outstanding commands. The automatic reconnection can be disabled by setting the DisableAutoReconnect flag to true in the connection config when creating the client. This package only provides methods for dcrd RPCs. Using the websocket connection and request-response mapping provided by rpcclient with arbitrary methods or different servers is possible through the generic RawRequest and RawRequestAsync methods (each of which deal with json.RawMessage for parameters and return results). Previous versions of this package provided methods for dcrwallet's JSON-RPC server in addition to dcrd. These were removed in major version 6 of this module. Projects depending on these calls are advised to use the decred.org/dcrwallet/rpc/client/dcrwallet package which is able to wrap rpcclient.Client using the aforementioned RawRequest method: Using struct embedding, it is possible to create a single variable with the combined method sets of both rpcclient.Client and dcrwallet.Client: This technique is valuable as dcrwallet (syncing in RPC mode) will passthrough any unknown RPCs to the backing dcrd server, proxying requests and responses for the client. There are 3 categories of errors that will be returned throughout this package: The first category of errors are typically one of ErrInvalidAuth, ErrInvalidEndpoint, ErrClientDisconnect, or ErrClientShutdown. NOTE: The ErrClientDisconnect will not be returned unless the DisableAutoReconnect flag is set since the client automatically handles reconnect by default as previously described. The second category of errors typically indicates a programmer error and as such the type can vary, but usually will be best handled by simply showing/logging it. The third category of errors, that is errors returned by the server, can be detected by type asserting the error in a *dcrjson.RPCError. For example, to detect if a command is unimplemented by the remote RPC server: The following full-blown client examples are in the examples directory:

Package peer provides a common base for creating and managing Decred network peers. This package builds upon the wire package, which provides the fundamental primitives necessary to speak the Decred wire protocol, in order to simplify the process of creating fully functional peers. In essence, it provides a common base for creating concurrent safe fully validating nodes, Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes, proxies, etc. A quick overview of the major features peer provides are as follows: All peer configuration is handled with the Config struct. This allows the caller to specify things such as the user agent name and version, the decred network to use, which services it supports, and callbacks to invoke when decred messages are received. See the documentation for each field of the Config struct for more details. A peer can either be inbound or outbound. The caller is responsible for establishing the connection to remote peers and listening for incoming peers. This provides high flexibility for things such as connecting via proxies, acting as a proxy, creating bridge peers, choosing whether to listen for inbound peers, etc. NewOutboundPeer and NewInboundPeer functions must be followed by calling Connect with a net.Conn instance to the peer. This will start all async I/O goroutines and initiate the protocol negotiation process. Once finished with the peer call Disconnect to disconnect from the peer and clean up all resources. WaitForDisconnect can be used to block until peer disconnection and resource cleanup has completed. In order to do anything useful with a peer, it is necessary to react to decred messages. This is accomplished by creating an instance of the MessageListeners struct with the callbacks to be invoke specified and setting the Listeners field of the Config struct specified when creating a peer to it. For convenience, a callback hook for all of the currently supported decred messages is exposed which receives the peer instance and the concrete message type. In addition, a hook for OnRead is provided so even custom messages types for which this package does not directly provide a hook, as long as they implement the wire.Message interface, can be used. Finally, the OnWrite hook is provided, which in conjunction with OnRead, can be used to track server-wide byte counts. It is often useful to use closures which encapsulate state when specifying the callback handlers. This provides a clean method for accessing that state when callbacks are invoked. The QueueMessage function provides the fundamental means to send messages to the remote peer. As the name implies, this employs a non-blocking queue. A done channel which will be notified when the message is actually sent can optionally be specified. There are certain message types which are better sent using other functions which provide additional functionality. Of special interest are inventory messages. Rather than manually sending MsgInv messages via Queuemessage, the inventory vectors should be queued using the QueueInventory function. It employs batching and trickling along with intelligent known remote peer inventory detection and avoidance through the use of a most-recently used algorithm. In addition to the bare QueueMessage function previously described, the PushAddrMsg, PushGetBlocksMsg, PushGetHeadersMsg, and PushRejectMsg functions are provided as a convenience. While it is of course possible to create and send these message manually via QueueMessage, these helper functions provided additional useful functionality that is typically desired. For example, the PushAddrMsg function automatically limits the addresses to the maximum number allowed by the message and randomizes the chosen addresses when there are too many. This allows the caller to simply provide a slice of known addresses, such as that returned by the addrmgr package, without having to worry about the details. Next, the PushGetBlocksMsg and PushGetHeadersMsg functions will construct proper messages using a block locator and ignore back to back duplicate requests. Finally, the PushRejectMsg function can be used to easily create and send an appropriate reject message based on the provided parameters as well as optionally provides a flag to cause it to block until the message is actually sent. A snapshot of the current peer statistics can be obtained with the StatsSnapshot function. This includes statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version. This package provides extensive logging capabilities through the UseLogger function which allows a slog.Logger to be specified. For example, logging at the debug level provides summaries of every message sent and received, and logging at the trace level provides full dumps of parsed messages as well as the raw message bytes using a format similar to hexdump -C. This package supports all improvement proposals supported by the wire package. (https://godoc.org/github.com/decred/dcrd/wire#hdr-Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals) This example demonstrates the basic process for initializing and creating an outbound peer. Peers negotiate by exchanging version and verack messages. For demonstration, a simple handler for version message is attached to the peer.

Package health is a library that enables *async* dependency health checking for services running on an orchestrated container platform such as kubernetes or mesos. For additional overview, documentation and contribution guidelines, refer to the project's "README.md". For example usage, refer to https://github.com/InVisionApp/go-health/tree/master/examples/simple-http-server.

Package peer provides a common base for creating and managing Decred network peers. This package builds upon the wire package, which provides the fundamental primitives necessary to speak the Decred wire protocol, in order to simplify the process of creating fully functional peers. In essence, it provides a common base for creating concurrent safe fully validating nodes, Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes, proxies, etc. A quick overview of the major features peer provides are as follows: All peer configuration is handled with the Config struct. This allows the caller to specify things such as the user agent name and version, the decred network to use, which services it supports, and callbacks to invoke when decred messages are received. See the documentation for each field of the Config struct for more details. A peer can either be inbound or outbound. The caller is responsible for establishing the connection to remote peers and listening for incoming peers. This provides high flexibility for things such as connecting via proxies, acting as a proxy, creating bridge peers, choosing whether to listen for inbound peers, etc. NewOutboundPeer and NewInboundPeer functions must be followed by calling Connect with a net.Conn instance to the peer. This will start all async I/O goroutines and initiate the protocol negotiation process. Once finished with the peer call Disconnect to disconnect from the peer and clean up all resources. WaitForDisconnect can be used to block until peer disconnection and resource cleanup has completed. In order to do anything useful with a peer, it is necessary to react to decred messages. This is accomplished by creating an instance of the MessageListeners struct with the callbacks to be invoke specified and setting the Listeners field of the Config struct specified when creating a peer to it. For convenience, a callback hook for all of the currently supported decred messages is exposed which receives the peer instance and the concrete message type. In addition, a hook for OnRead is provided so even custom messages types for which this package does not directly provide a hook, as long as they implement the wire.Message interface, can be used. Finally, the OnWrite hook is provided, which in conjunction with OnRead, can be used to track server-wide byte counts. It is often useful to use closures which encapsulate state when specifying the callback handlers. This provides a clean method for accessing that state when callbacks are invoked. The QueueMessage function provides the fundamental means to send messages to the remote peer. As the name implies, this employs a non-blocking queue. A done channel which will be notified when the message is actually sent can optionally be specified. There are certain message types which are better sent using other functions which provide additional functionality. Of special interest are inventory messages. Rather than manually sending MsgInv messages via Queuemessage, the inventory vectors should be queued using the QueueInventory function. It employs batching and trickling along with intelligent known remote peer inventory detection and avoidance through the use of a most-recently used algorithm. In addition to the bare QueueMessage function previously described, the PushAddrMsg, PushGetBlocksMsg, and PushGetHeadersMsg functions are provided as a convenience. While it is of course possible to create and send these messages manually via QueueMessage, these helper functions provided additional useful functionality that is typically desired. For example, the PushAddrMsg function automatically limits the addresses to the maximum number allowed by the message and randomizes the chosen addresses when there are too many. This allows the caller to simply provide a slice of known addresses, such as that returned by the addrmgr package, without having to worry about the details. Finally, the PushGetBlocksMsg and PushGetHeadersMsg functions will construct proper messages using a block locator and ignore back to back duplicate requests. A snapshot of the current peer statistics can be obtained with the StatsSnapshot function. This includes statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version. This package provides extensive logging capabilities through the UseLogger function which allows a slog.Logger to be specified. For example, logging at the debug level provides summaries of every message sent and received, and logging at the trace level provides full dumps of parsed messages as well as the raw message bytes using a format similar to hexdump -C. This package supports all improvement proposals supported by the wire package. This example demonstrates the basic process for initializing and creating an outbound peer. Peers negotiate by exchanging version and verack messages. For demonstration, a simple handler for version message is attached to the peer.

Package redis provides both clients and connectors for the Redis server. Both synchronous and asynchronous interaction modes are supported. Asynchronous clients (using the asynchronous connection) use pipelining. Usage example: Asynchronous semantics are defined by redis.AsyncClient interface type. Note that these clients use a pipelining connector and a single instance can be used by multiple go routines. Use of pipelining increases throughput at the cost of latency. If low latency is more important to you than throughput, and you require async call semantics, then you should use only 1 go routine per AsyncClient connection. Usage example without timeouts (caller blocks on Get until the response from Redis has been processed.) Usage example with timeouts - same Redis op as above but here we use TryGet on the Future result with a timeout of 1 msecs:

Package rollbar is a Golang Rollbar client that makes it easy to report errors to Rollbar with full stacktraces. This package is designed to be used via the functions exposed at the root of the `rollbar` package. These work by managing a single instance of the `Client` type that is configurable via the setter functions at the root of the package. If you wish for more fine grained control over the client or you wish to have multiple independent clients then you can create and manage your own instances of the `Client` type. We provide two implementations of the `Transport` interface, `AsyncTransport` and `SyncTransport`. These manage the communication with the network layer. The Async version uses a buffered channel to communicate with the Rollbar API in a separate go routine. The Sync version is fully synchronous. It is possible to create your own `Transport` and configure a Client to use your preferred implementation. Go does not provide a mechanism for handling all panics automatically, therefore we provide two functions `Wrap` and `WrapAndWait` to make working with panics easier. They both take a function with arguments and then report to Rollbar if that function panics. They use the recover mechanism to capture the panic, and therefore if you wish your process to have the normal behaviour on panic (i.e. to crash), you will need to re-panic the result of calling `Wrap`. For example, The above pattern of calling `Wrap(...)` and then `Wait(...)` can be combined via `WrapAndWait(...)`. When `WrapAndWait(...)` returns if there was a panic it has already been sent to the Rollbar API. The error is still returned by this function if there is one. `Wrap` and `WrapAndWait` will accept functions with any number and type of arguments and return values. However, they do not return the function's return value, instead returning the error value. To add Rollbar panic handling to a function while preserving access to the function's return values, we provide the `LogPanic` helper designed to be used inside your deferred function. This offers virtually the same functionality as `Wrap` and `WrapAndWait` while preserving access to the function return values. Due to the nature of the `error` type in Go, it can be difficult to attribute errors to their original origin without doing some extra work. To account for this, we provide multiple ways of configuring the client to unwrap errors and extract stack traces. The client will automatically unwrap any error type which implements the `Unwrap() error` method specified in Go 1.13. (See https://golang.org/pkg/errors/ for details.) This behavior can be extended for other types of errors by calling `SetUnwrapper`. For stack traces, we provide the `Stacker` interface, which can be implemented on custom error types: If you cannot implement the `Stacker` interface on your error type (which is common for third-party error libraries), you can provide a custom tracing function by calling `SetStackTracer`. See the documentation of `SetUnwrapper` and `SetStackTracer` for more information and examples. Finally, users of github.com/pkg/errors can use the utilities provided in the `errors` sub-package.

Package peer provides a common base for creating and managing Decred network peers. This package builds upon the wire package, which provides the fundamental primitives necessary to speak the Decred wire protocol, in order to simplify the process of creating fully functional peers. In essence, it provides a common base for creating concurrent safe fully validating nodes, Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes, proxies, etc. A quick overview of the major features peer provides are as follows: All peer configuration is handled with the Config struct. This allows the caller to specify things such as the user agent name and version, the decred network to use, which services it supports, and callbacks to invoke when decred messages are received. See the documentation for each field of the Config struct for more details. A peer can either be inbound or outbound. The caller is responsible for establishing the connection to remote peers and listening for incoming peers. This provides high flexibility for things such as connecting via proxies, acting as a proxy, creating bridge peers, choosing whether to listen for inbound peers, etc. NewOutboundPeer and NewInboundPeer functions must be followed by calling Connect with a net.Conn instance to the peer. This will start all async I/O goroutines and initiate the protocol negotiation process. Once finished with the peer call Disconnect to disconnect from the peer and clean up all resources. WaitForDisconnect can be used to block until peer disconnection and resource cleanup has completed. In order to do anything useful with a peer, it is necessary to react to decred messages. This is accomplished by creating an instance of the MessageListeners struct with the callbacks to be invoke specified and setting the Listeners field of the Config struct specified when creating a peer to it. For convenience, a callback hook for all of the currently supported decred messages is exposed which receives the peer instance and the concrete message type. In addition, a hook for OnRead is provided so even custom messages types for which this package does not directly provide a hook, as long as they implement the wire.Message interface, can be used. Finally, the OnWrite hook is provided, which in conjunction with OnRead, can be used to track server-wide byte counts. It is often useful to use closures which encapsulate state when specifying the callback handlers. This provides a clean method for accessing that state when callbacks are invoked. The QueueMessage function provides the fundamental means to send messages to the remote peer. As the name implies, this employs a non-blocking queue. A done channel which will be notified when the message is actually sent can optionally be specified. There are certain message types which are better sent using other functions which provide additional functionality. Of special interest are inventory messages. Rather than manually sending MsgInv messages via Queuemessage, the inventory vectors should be queued using the QueueInventory function. It employs batching and trickling along with intelligent known remote peer inventory detection and avoidance through the use of a most-recently used algorithm. In addition to the bare QueueMessage function previously described, the PushAddrMsg, PushGetBlocksMsg, PushGetHeadersMsg, and PushRejectMsg functions are provided as a convenience. While it is of course possible to create and send these message manually via QueueMessage, these helper functions provided additional useful functionality that is typically desired. For example, the PushAddrMsg function automatically limits the addresses to the maximum number allowed by the message and randomizes the chosen addresses when there are too many. This allows the caller to simply provide a slice of known addresses, such as that returned by the addrmgr package, without having to worry about the details. Next, the PushGetBlocksMsg and PushGetHeadersMsg functions will construct proper messages using a block locator and ignore back to back duplicate requests. Finally, the PushRejectMsg function can be used to easily create and send an appropriate reject message based on the provided parameters as well as optionally provides a flag to cause it to block until the message is actually sent. A snapshot of the current peer statistics can be obtained with the StatsSnapshot function. This includes statistics such as the total number of bytes read and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol version. This package provides extensive logging capabilities through the UseLogger function which allows a slog.Logger to be specified. For example, logging at the debug level provides summaries of every message sent and received, and logging at the trace level provides full dumps of parsed messages as well as the raw message bytes using a format similar to hexdump -C. This package supports all improvement proposals supported by the wire package. This example demonstrates the basic process for initializing and creating an outbound peer. Peers negotiate by exchanging version and verack messages. For demonstration, a simple handler for version message is attached to the peer.

Package rpcclient implements a websocket-enabled Decred JSON-RPC client. This client provides a robust and easy to use client for interfacing with a Decred RPC server that uses a mostly btcd/bitcoin core style Decred JSON-RPC API. This client has been tested with dcrd (https://github.com/decred/dcrd) and dcrwallet (https://github.com/decred/dcrwallet). In addition to the compatible standard HTTP POST JSON-RPC API, dcrd and dcrwallet provide a websocket interface that is more efficient than the standard HTTP POST method of accessing RPC. The section below discusses the differences between HTTP POST and websockets. By default, this client assumes the RPC server supports websockets and has TLS enabled. In practice, this currently means it assumes you are talking to dcrd or dcrwallet by default. However, configuration options are provided to fall back to HTTP POST and disable TLS to support talking with inferior bitcoin core style RPC servers. In HTTP POST-based JSON-RPC, every request creates a new HTTP connection, issues the call, waits for the response, and closes the connection. This adds quite a bit of overhead to every call and lacks flexibility for features such as notifications. In contrast, the websocket-based JSON-RPC interface provided by dcrd and dcrwallet only uses a single connection that remains open and allows asynchronous bi-directional communication. The websocket interface supports all of the same commands as HTTP POST, but they can be invoked without having to go through a connect/disconnect cycle for every call. In addition, the websocket interface provides other nice features such as the ability to register for asynchronous notifications of various events. The client provides both a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous API. The synchronous (blocking) API is typically sufficient for most use cases. It works by issuing the RPC and blocking until the response is received. This allows straightforward code where you have the response as soon as the function returns. The asynchronous API works on the concept of futures. When you invoke the async version of a command, it will quickly return an instance of a type that promises to provide the result of the RPC at some future time. In the background, the RPC call is issued and the result is stored in the returned instance. Invoking the Receive method on the returned instance will either return the result immediately if it has already arrived, or block until it has. This is useful since it provides the caller with greater control over concurrency. The first important part of notifications is to realize that they will only work when connected via websockets. This should intuitively make sense because HTTP POST mode does not keep a connection open! All notifications provided by dcrd require registration to opt-in. For example, if you want to be notified when funds are received by a set of addresses, you register the addresses via the NotifyReceived (or NotifyReceivedAsync) function. Notifications are exposed by the client through the use of callback handlers which are setup via a NotificationHandlers instance that is specified by the caller when creating the client. It is important that these notification handlers complete quickly since they are intentionally in the main read loop and will block further reads until they complete. This provides the caller with the flexibility to decide what to do when notifications are coming in faster than they are being handled. In particular this means issuing a blocking RPC call from a callback handler will cause a deadlock as more server responses won't be read until the callback returns, but the callback would be waiting for a response. Thus, any additional RPCs must be issued an a completely decoupled manner. By default, when running in websockets mode, this client will automatically keep trying to reconnect to the RPC server should the connection be lost. There is a back-off in between each connection attempt until it reaches one try per minute. Once a connection is re-established, all previously registered notifications are automatically re-registered and any in-flight commands are re-issued. This means from the caller's perspective, the request simply takes longer to complete. The caller may invoke the Shutdown method on the client to force the client to cease reconnect attempts and return ErrClientShutdown for all outstanding commands. The automatic reconnection can be disabled by setting the DisableAutoReconnect flag to true in the connection config when creating the client. This package only provides methods for dcrd RPCs. Using the websocket connection and request-response mapping provided by rpcclient with arbitrary methods or different servers is possible through the generic RawRequest and RawRequestAsync methods (each of which deal with json.RawMessage for parameters and return results). Previous versions of this package provided methods for dcrwallet's JSON-RPC server in addition to dcrd. These were removed in major version 6 of this module. Projects depending on these calls are advised to use the decred.org/dcrwallet/rpc/client/dcrwallet package which is able to wrap rpcclient.Client using the aforementioned RawRequest method: Using struct embedding, it is possible to create a single variable with the combined method sets of both rpcclient.Client and dcrwallet.Client: This technique is valuable as dcrwallet (syncing in RPC mode) will passthrough any unknown RPCs to the backing dcrd server, proxying requests and responses for the client. There are 3 categories of errors that will be returned throughout this package: The first category of errors are typically one of ErrInvalidAuth, ErrInvalidEndpoint, ErrClientDisconnect, or ErrClientShutdown. NOTE: The ErrClientDisconnect will not be returned unless the DisableAutoReconnect flag is set since the client automatically handles reconnect by default as previously described. The second category of errors typically indicates a programmer error and as such the type can vary, but usually will be best handled by simply showing/logging it. The third category of errors, that is errors returned by the server, can be detected by type asserting the error in a *dcrjson.RPCError. For example, to detect if a command is unimplemented by the remote RPC server: The following full-blown client examples are in the examples directory:

Package messagebus provides simple async message publisher

Package gaio is an Async-IO library for Golang. gaio acts in proactor mode, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactor_pattern. User submit async IO operations and waits for IO-completion signal.