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github.com/MegaGrindStone/btcwallet/walletdb
Package walletdb provides a namespaced database interface for btcwallet. A wallet essentially consists of a multitude of stored data such as private and public keys, key derivation bits, pay-to-script-hash scripts, and various metadata. One of the issues with many wallets is they are tightly integrated. Designing a wallet with loosely coupled components that provide specific functionality is ideal, however it presents a challenge in regards to data storage since each component needs to store its own data without knowing the internals of other components or breaking atomicity. This package solves this issue by providing a pluggable driver, namespaced database interface that is intended to be used by the main wallet daemon. This allows the potential for any backend database type with a suitable driver. Each component, which will typically be a package, can then implement various functionality such as address management, voting pools, and colored coin metadata in their own namespace without having to worry about conflicts with other packages even though they are sharing the same database that is managed by the wallet. A quick overview of the features walletdb provides are as follows: The main entry point is the DB interface. It exposes functionality for creating, retrieving, and removing namespaces. It is obtained via the Create and Open functions which take a database type string that identifies the specific database driver (backend) to use as well as arguments specific to the specified driver. The Namespace interface is an abstraction that provides facilities for obtaining transactions (the Tx interface) that are the basis of all database reads and writes. Unlike some database interfaces that support reading and writing without transactions, this interface requires transactions even when only reading or writing a single key. The Begin function provides an unmanaged transaction while the View and Update functions provide a managed transaction. These are described in more detail below. The Tx interface provides facilities for rolling back or commiting changes that took place while the transaction was active. It also provides the root bucket under which all keys, values, and nested buckets are stored. A transaction can either be read-only or read-write and managed or unmanaged. A managed transaction is one where the caller provides a function to execute within the context of the transaction and the commit or rollback is handled automatically depending on whether or not the provided function returns an error. Attempting to manually call Rollback or Commit on the managed transaction will result in a panic. An unmanaged transaction, on the other hand, requires the caller to manually call Commit or Rollback when they are finished with it. Leaving transactions open for long periods of time can have several adverse effects, so it is recommended that managed transactions are used instead. The Bucket interface provides the ability to manipulate key/value pairs and nested buckets as well as iterate through them. The Get, Put, and Delete functions work with key/value pairs, while the Bucket, CreateBucket, CreateBucketIfNotExists, and DeleteBucket functions work with buckets. The ForEach function allows the caller to provide a function to be called with each key/value pair and nested bucket in the current bucket. As discussed above, all of the functions which are used to manipulate key/value pairs and nested buckets exist on the Bucket interface. The root bucket is the upper-most bucket in a namespace under which data is stored and is created at the same time as the namespace. Use the RootBucket function on the Tx interface to retrieve it. The CreateBucket and CreateBucketIfNotExists functions on the Bucket interface provide the ability to create an arbitrary number of nested buckets. It is a good idea to avoid a lot of buckets with little data in them as it could lead to poor page utilization depending on the specific driver in use. This example demonstrates creating a new database, getting a namespace from it, and using a managed read-write transaction against the namespace to store and retrieve data.
Readme
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(https://travis-ci.org/MegaGrindStone/btcwallet)
Package walletdb provides a namespaced database interface for btcwallet.
A wallet essentially consists of a multitude of stored data such as private and public keys, key derivation bits, pay-to-script-hash scripts, and various metadata. One of the issues with many wallets is they are tightly integrated. Designing a wallet with loosely coupled components that provide specific functionality is ideal, however it presents a challenge in regards to data storage since each component needs to store its own data without knowing the internals of other components or breaking atomicity.
This package solves this issue by providing a namespaced database interface that is intended to be used by the main wallet daemon. This allows the potential for any backend database type with a suitable driver. Each component, which will typically be a package, can then implement various functionality such as address management, voting pools, and colored coin metadata in their own namespace without having to worry about conflicts with other packages even though they are sharing the same database that is managed by the wallet.
A suite of tests is provided to ensure proper functionality. See
test_coverage.txt
for the gocov coverage report. Alternatively, if you are
running a POSIX OS, you can run the cov_report.sh
script for a real-time
report. Package walletdb is licensed under the copyfree ISC license.
This interfaces provided by this package were heavily inspired by the excellent boltdb project at https://github.com/boltdb/bolt by Ben B. Johnson.
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(http://godoc.org/github.com/MegaGrindStone/btcwallet/walletdb)
Full go doc
style documentation for the project can be viewed online without
installing this package by using the GoDoc site here:
http://godoc.org/github.com/MegaGrindStone/btcwallet/walletdb
You can also view the documentation locally once the package is installed with
the godoc
tool by running godoc -http=":6060"
and pointing your browser to
http://localhost:6060/pkg/github.com/MegaGrindStone/btcwallet/walletdb
$ go get github.com/MegaGrindStone/btcwallet/walletdb
Package walletdb is licensed under the copyfree ISC License.
FAQs
Package walletdb provides a namespaced database interface for btcwallet. A wallet essentially consists of a multitude of stored data such as private and public keys, key derivation bits, pay-to-script-hash scripts, and various metadata. One of the issues with many wallets is they are tightly integrated. Designing a wallet with loosely coupled components that provide specific functionality is ideal, however it presents a challenge in regards to data storage since each component needs to store its own data without knowing the internals of other components or breaking atomicity. This package solves this issue by providing a pluggable driver, namespaced database interface that is intended to be used by the main wallet daemon. This allows the potential for any backend database type with a suitable driver. Each component, which will typically be a package, can then implement various functionality such as address management, voting pools, and colored coin metadata in their own namespace without having to worry about conflicts with other packages even though they are sharing the same database that is managed by the wallet. A quick overview of the features walletdb provides are as follows: The main entry point is the DB interface. It exposes functionality for creating, retrieving, and removing namespaces. It is obtained via the Create and Open functions which take a database type string that identifies the specific database driver (backend) to use as well as arguments specific to the specified driver. The Namespace interface is an abstraction that provides facilities for obtaining transactions (the Tx interface) that are the basis of all database reads and writes. Unlike some database interfaces that support reading and writing without transactions, this interface requires transactions even when only reading or writing a single key. The Begin function provides an unmanaged transaction while the View and Update functions provide a managed transaction. These are described in more detail below. The Tx interface provides facilities for rolling back or commiting changes that took place while the transaction was active. It also provides the root bucket under which all keys, values, and nested buckets are stored. A transaction can either be read-only or read-write and managed or unmanaged. A managed transaction is one where the caller provides a function to execute within the context of the transaction and the commit or rollback is handled automatically depending on whether or not the provided function returns an error. Attempting to manually call Rollback or Commit on the managed transaction will result in a panic. An unmanaged transaction, on the other hand, requires the caller to manually call Commit or Rollback when they are finished with it. Leaving transactions open for long periods of time can have several adverse effects, so it is recommended that managed transactions are used instead. The Bucket interface provides the ability to manipulate key/value pairs and nested buckets as well as iterate through them. The Get, Put, and Delete functions work with key/value pairs, while the Bucket, CreateBucket, CreateBucketIfNotExists, and DeleteBucket functions work with buckets. The ForEach function allows the caller to provide a function to be called with each key/value pair and nested bucket in the current bucket. As discussed above, all of the functions which are used to manipulate key/value pairs and nested buckets exist on the Bucket interface. The root bucket is the upper-most bucket in a namespace under which data is stored and is created at the same time as the namespace. Use the RootBucket function on the Tx interface to retrieve it. The CreateBucket and CreateBucketIfNotExists functions on the Bucket interface provide the ability to create an arbitrary number of nested buckets. It is a good idea to avoid a lot of buckets with little data in them as it could lead to poor page utilization depending on the specific driver in use. This example demonstrates creating a new database, getting a namespace from it, and using a managed read-write transaction against the namespace to store and retrieve data.
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