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The code in the Tendermint repository makes heavy use of import aliasing. This is made necessary by our extensive reuse of common base package names, and by repetition of similar names across different subdirectories. Unfortunately we have not been very consistent about which packages we alias in various circumstances, and the aliases we use vary. In the spirit of the advice in the style guide and https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#imports, his change makes an effort to clean up and normalize import aliasing. This change makes no API or behavioral changes. It is a pure cleanup intended o help make the code more readable to developers (including myself) trying to understand what is being imported where. Only unexported names have been modified, and the changes were generated and applied mechanically with gofmt -r and comby, respecting the lexical and syntactic rules of Go. Even so, I did not fix every inconsistency. Where the changes would be too disruptive, I left it alone. The principles I followed in this cleanup are: - Remove aliases that restate the package name. - Remove aliases where the base package name is unambiguous. - Move overly-terse abbreviations from the import to the usage site. - Fix lexical issues (remove underscores, remove capitalization). - Fix import groupings to more closely match the style guide. - Group blank (side-effecting) imports and ensure they are commented. - Add aliases to multiple imports with the same base package name.
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.