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Author SHA1 Message Date
Henry de Valence 1266653be2
Handle error conversions properly. (#56)
This adds a type alias, BoxedStdError, for a boxed std::error::Error
trait object, and uses it in the where bounds for the generic service
code.  In the future, we may want to standardize on using
std::error::Error exclusively, but we would then possibly lose out on
backtrace information.
2019-10-08 13:49:12 -07:00
Henry de Valence ed608f7231
Initial tower-based peer implementation. (#17)
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.
2019-10-07 15:36:16 -07:00