adding a way to test node and id chain locally

beaconchain/beaconchain.go

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func generateIDCKeys() kyber.Point {
 
 //AcceptConnections welcomes new connections
 func (IDC *BeaconChain) AcceptConnections(b []byte) {
-	Node := node.DeserializeWaitNode(b)
+	Node := node.DeserializeNode(b)
 	IDC.registerNode(Node) //This copies lock value of sync.mutex, we need to have a way around it by creating auxiliary data struct.
 }
 

node/node.go

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ func (node *Node) ConnectIdentityChain() {
 
 // SerializeWaitNode serializes the node
 // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12854125/how-do-i-dump-the-struct-into-the-byte-array-without-reflection/12854659#12854659
-func (node *Node) SerializeWaitNode() []byte {
+func (node *Node) SerializeNode() []byte {
 	//Needs to escape the serialization of unexported fields
 	result := new(bytes.Buffer)
 	encoder := gob.NewEncoder(result)
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ func (node *Node) SerializeWaitNode() []byte {
 }
 
 // DeserializeWaitNode deserializes the node
-func DeserializeWaitNode(d []byte) *Node {
+func DeserializeNode(d []byte) *Node {
 	var wn Node
 	r := bytes.NewBuffer(d)
 	decoder := gob.NewDecoder(r)

runid/run_identity.go

@@ -1,12 +1,26 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 
 	"github.com/simple-rules/harmony-benchmark/beaconchain"
+	"github.com/simple-rules/harmony-benchmark/node"
+	"github.com/simple-rules/harmony-benchmark/p2p"
 )
 
 func main() {
 	bc := beaconchain.New("temp")
+
+	ip := flag.String("ip", "127.0.0.0", "IP of the node")
+	port := flag.String("port", "9000", "port of the node.")
+	flag.Parse()
+	peer := p2p.Peer{Ip: *ip, Port: *port}
+	node := node.Node{}
+	node.Self = peer
+	msg := node.SerializeNode()
+	fmt.Print(msg)
+	// fmt.Println(ip)
+	// fmt.Println(peer)
 	fmt.Print(bc)
 }

runnode/run_node.go

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/simple-rules/harmony-benchmark/node"
+	"github.com/simple-rules/harmony-benchmark/p2p"
+)
+
+func main() {
+
+	ip := flag.String("ip", "127.0.0.0", "IP of the node")
+	port := flag.String("port", "9000", "port of the node.")
+	flag.Parse()
+	peer := p2p.Peer{Ip: *ip, Port: *port}
+	node := node.Node{}
+	node.Self = peer
+	msg := node.SerializeNode()
+	fmt.Print(msg)
+	// fmt.Println(ip)
+	// fmt.Println(peer)
+
+}