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accounts, consensus, core, eth: make chain maker consensus agnostic (#15497)

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* accounts, consensus, core, eth: make chain maker consensus agnostic

* consensus, core: move CalcDifficulty to Engine interface

* consensus: add docs for calcDifficulty function

* consensus, core: minor comment fixups
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gary rong
2017-12-22 20:37:50 +08:00
committed by Péter Szilágyi
parent 9dbb8ef4aa
commit 5f8888e116
23 changed files with 145 additions and 99 deletions
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consensus/consensus.go
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@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc"
"math/big"
)
// ChainReader defines a small collection of methods needed to access the local
@ -88,6 +89,10 @@ type Engine interface {
// seal place on top.
Seal(chain ChainReader, block *types.Block, stop <-chan struct{}) (*types.Block, error)
// CalcDifficulty is the difficulty adjustment algorithm. It returns the difficulty
// that a new block should have.
CalcDifficulty(chain ChainReader, time uint64, parent *types.Header) *big.Int
// APIs returns the RPC APIs this consensus engine provides.
APIs(chain ChainReader) []rpc.API
}