7f8f1cde8c
This change changes the ABCI socket client to allow goroutines to block writing to the internal queue. This has the effect ensuring that callers of the ABCI methods do not error on a full internal queue at the expense of allowing the number of goroutines waiting on this internal queue to grow in an unbounded fashion. This tradeoff seems preferable since it allows callers of the ABCI methods to be certain that a request that was made will reach the application if it is available.
Closes: #7827
This change was initially implemented here: e13b4386ff and never landed on v0.34, only v0.35+
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.