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* Revert "update protos (#8515)"
This reverts commit f094fd204a.
It appears that #8515 may have been generated with an out-of-date version of
either buf or the gogo plugin. using the latest versions (buf 1.4.0 and gogo
1.3.2) reverts those changes.
* Add a script to re-generate protos with the latest tools.
This script is just a wrapper for the Make rule, but it runs the build inside a
container with the latest versions of buf and gogo installed. This reduces the
chance that an out-of-date ambient installation on a developer machine will get
us outdated output.
Application BlockChain Interface (ABCI)
Blockchains are systems for multi-master state machine replication. ABCI is an interface that defines the boundary between the replication engine (the blockchain), and the state machine (the application). Using a socket protocol, a consensus engine running in one process can manage an application state running in another.
Previously, the ABCI was referred to as TMSP.
The community has provided a number of additional implementations, see the Tendermint Ecosystem
Installation & Usage
To get up and running quickly, see the getting started guide along with the abci-cli documentation which will go through the examples found in the examples directory.
Specification
A detailed description of the ABCI methods and message types is contained in:
Protocol Buffers
To compile the protobuf file, run (from the root of the repo):
make protoc_abci
See protoc --help and the Protocol Buffers site
for details on compiling for other languages. Note we also include a GRPC
service definition.