Update value returned by web3_clientVersion to be ethstats friendly
* Version part starts with a v
* SNAPSHOT builds report 32 bits of the git hash
* OS and architecture are sniffed out and reported
* JVM version and branding are sniffed out and reported
Example values (not all real):
pantheon/v0.9.0-dev-f800a0b1/osx-x86_64/oracle-java-1.8
pantheon/v0.9.0-dev-27960b57/osx-x86_64/zulu-java-11
pantheon/v0.9.0/linux-arm64/openjdk-java-12
* Introduce ProtocolScheduleBuilder and use it for Clique, MainNet, IBFT and dev.
* Remove default milestone blocks and simplify MainnetProtocolSchedule. All milestone blocks must now be defined in the genesis file (previously ethash chains would get Mainnet milestone blocks by default).
* Make GenesisConfigFile responsible for handling all the content in the genesis config file and rename GenesisConfig to GenesisState as it is now just responsible for creating the initial state at genesis.
* In CliqueProtocolController, pass the network ID to EthProtocolManager instead of the chain ID and use downloader parallelism setting instead of network ID for the number of threads.
* Introduce classes to wrap JSON config instead of accessing it directly in multiple places.
* Fix discrepancy in how CliqueProtocolSchedule and CliquePantheonController loaded the block period configuration.
* EthGetWork Added with Unit and acceptance tests
* EthGetWork Added with Unit and acceptance tests
* EthGetWork Added with Unit and acceptance tests
* EthGetWork Added with Unit and acceptance tests
Debugged
* EthGetWork Added with Unit and acceptance tests
Debugged
Change Requests Actioned
With the advent of Clique, some JSON RPCs pertaining to mining are
no longer going to produce appropriate results.
The Get/Set coinbase RPCs cannot affect a Clique based miner, as such
the miner throws an "Unsupported Operation" exception. The JSON
handler is responsible for catching this, and returning an
appropriate error code.
* [NC-1685] Fix BlockHashOperation so it handles blocks being added on forks and gets the hash of the block at the requested number on that fork rather than on the current canonical chain.
* [NC-1644] Cache block hashes across all transactions in a block.
The MiningCoordinator has been split into common, and ethhash
specific funcationality.
This adversely affects the JSON RPC, in that all mining related
RPCs are now generic based on the type of miner being used.