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tendermint/abci
Erik Grinaker 0566646373 test/abci: use random socket names to avoid collisions (#4885)
Fixes these test failures:

```
=== RUN   TestKVStore
### Testing KVStore 
I[2020-05-25|13:32:31.303] Starting ABCIServer service                  module=abci-server impl=ABCIServer
    TestKVStore: example_test.go:48: 
                Error Trace:    example_test.go:48
                                                        example_test.go:28
                Error:          Received unexpected error:
                                listen unix test.sock: bind: address already in use
                Test:           TestKVStore
                Messages:       Error starting socket server
--- FAIL: TestKVStore (0.00s) 
```
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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.