Failure uses a distinct Fail trait rather than the standard library's
Error trait, which causes a lot of interoperability problems with tower
and other Error-using crates. Since failure was created, the standard
library's Error trait was improved, and its conveniences are now
available without the custom Fail trait using `thiserror` (for easy
error derives) and `anyhow` (for a better boxed Error).
Add a tower-based peer implementation.
Tower provides middleware for request-response oriented protocols, while Bitcoin/Zcash just send messages which could be interpreted either as requests or responses, depending on context. To bridge this mismatch we define our own internal request/response protocol, and implement a per-peer event loop that scans incoming messages and interprets them either as requests from the remote peer to our node, or as responses to requests we made previously. This is performed by the `PeerService` task, and a corresponding `PeerClient: tower::Service` can send it requests. These tasks are themselves created by a `PeerConnector: tower::Service` which dials a remote peer and performs a handshake.
This field is called `services` in Bitcoin and Zcash, but because we use
that word internally for other purposes, calling it `PeerServices`
disambiguates the meaning to "the services advertised by the peer",
rather than, e.g., a `tower::Service`.
I don't feel super strongly about this change, so I'm happy to drop it,
but it makes the parsing match statements line up nicely and aligns
naming with the naming used in Bitcoin.
This removes the inventory vector structs from `zebra-chain` (as they
are really part of the network protocol) and refactors them into a
single `InventoryHash` type. This corresponds to Bitcoin's "inventory
vector" but with a different, better name (it's not a vector, it's just
a typed hash of some other item).
This provides a significantly cleaner API to consumers, because it
allows using adaptors that convert a TCP stream to a stream of messages,
and potentially allows more efficient message handling.
Deirdre Connolly
Henry de Valence