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Fix some linter issues to conform with the Protobuf style guide. The state sync enum changes are ok to break since it's not released yet. Personally I find the uppercase kind of ugly, but that's what the guide says. Couldn't find a way to generate camel case in Go, short of specifying custom names for each and every enum variant. Another option would be to simply disable the enum case lint.
KVStore
There are two app's here: the KVStoreApplication and the PersistentKVStoreApplication.
KVStoreApplication
The KVStoreApplication is a simple merkle key-value store.
Transactions of the form key=value are stored as key-value pairs in the tree.
Transactions without an = sign set the value to the key.
The app has no replay protection (other than what the mempool provides).
PersistentKVStoreApplication
The PersistentKVStoreApplication wraps the KVStoreApplication and provides two additional features:
- persistence of state across app restarts (using Tendermint's ABCI-Handshake mechanism)
- validator set changes
The state is persisted in leveldb along with the last block committed, and the Handshake allows any necessary blocks to be replayed. Validator set changes are effected using the following transaction format:
"val:pubkey1!power1,pubkey2!power2,pubkey3!power3"
where pubkeyN is a base64-encoded 32-byte ed25519 key and powerN is a new voting power for the validator with pubkeyN (possibly a new one).
To remove a validator from the validator set, set power to 0.
There is no sybil protection against new validators joining.