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This PR implements a hack. It does effectively 2 things: 1. It checks in a set of protos, suffixed with `.intermediate` that allow the abci proto generation to proceed. 2. Adds a script / makefile to enable the generation. The script is pretty simple. It copies over the 'intermediate' files over to be the `.proto` files for the `abci/types.proto` file and the `types/types.proto` files, generates all the protos, and then reverts all of the changes made to the `*.proto` files and the `*.pb.go` files, except for the single abci file. If this is too ugly, I'm happy to tweak it, but my goal here is to have some working version of the protos that currently build the abci code so that we can coordinate changes to the code and not have them all sit in different branches that make breaking changes across each other. The end goal is to have the `.intermediate` files disappear completely, since they should be moving towards containing everything that the `.proto` files contain.
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.