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Reorganizes the Protobuf schemas. It is mostly bikeshedding, so if something is contentious or causes a lot of extra work then I'm fine with reverting. Some Protobuf and Go import paths will change. * Move `abci/types/types.proto` to `abci/types.proto`. * Move `crypto/keys/types.proto` and `crypto/merkle/types.proto` to `crypto/keys.proto` and `crypto/proof.proto`. * Drop the use of `msgs` in filenames, as "message" is a very overloaded term (all Protobuf types are messages, and we also have `message Message`). Use `types.proto` as a catch-all, and otherwise name files by conceptual grouping instead of message kind.
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.