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This change implements the spec for `ProcessProposal`. It first calls the Tendermint block validation logic to check that all of the proposed block fields are well formed and do not violate any of the rules for Tendermint to consider the block valid and then passes the validated block the `ProcessProposal`. This change also adds additional fixtures to test the change. It adds the `baseMock` types that holds a mock as well as a reference to `BaseApplication`. If the function was not setup by the test on the contained mock Application, the type delegates to the `BaseApplication` and returns what `BaseApplication` returns. The change also switches the `makeState` helper to take an arg struct so that an ABCI application can be plumbed through when needed. closes: #7656
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.