cumulus-relay-chain-minimal-node 0.32.0

Minimal node implementation to be used in tandem with RPC or light-client mode.
Documentation
// Copyright (C) Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
// This file is part of Cumulus.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0

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use polkadot_core_primitives::{Block, Hash, Header};
use sp_runtime::traits::NumberFor;

use sc_network::{
	config::{
		NetworkConfiguration, NonReservedPeerMode, NotificationHandshake, PeerStore, ProtocolId,
		SetConfig,
	},
	peer_store::PeerStoreProvider,
	service::traits::NetworkService,
	NotificationMetrics,
};

use sc_network::{config::FullNetworkConfiguration, NetworkBackend, NotificationService};
use sc_network_common::{role::Roles, sync::message::BlockAnnouncesHandshake};
use sc_service::{error::Error, Configuration, SpawnTaskHandle};

use std::{iter, sync::Arc};

/// Build the network service, the network status sinks and an RPC sender.
pub(crate) fn build_collator_network<Network: NetworkBackend<Block, Hash>>(
	config: &Configuration,
	mut network_config: FullNetworkConfiguration<Block, Hash, Network>,
	spawn_handle: SpawnTaskHandle,
	genesis_hash: Hash,
	best_header: Header,
	notification_metrics: NotificationMetrics,
) -> Result<(Arc<dyn NetworkService>, Arc<dyn sp_consensus::SyncOracle + Send + Sync>), Error> {
	let protocol_id = config.protocol_id();
	let (block_announce_config, notification_service) = get_block_announce_proto_config::<Network>(
		protocol_id.clone(),
		&None,
		Roles::from(&config.role),
		best_header.number,
		best_header.hash(),
		genesis_hash,
		notification_metrics.clone(),
		network_config.peer_store_handle(),
	);

	// Since this node has no syncing, we do not want light-clients to connect to it.
	// Here we set any potential light-client slots to 0.
	adjust_network_config_light_in_peers(&mut network_config.network_config);

	let peer_store = network_config.take_peer_store();
	spawn_handle.spawn("peer-store", Some("networking"), peer_store.run());

	let network_params = sc_network::config::Params::<Block, Hash, Network> {
		role: config.role,
		executor: {
			let spawn_handle = Clone::clone(&spawn_handle);
			Box::new(move |fut| {
				spawn_handle.spawn("libp2p-node", Some("networking"), fut);
			})
		},
		fork_id: None,
		network_config,
		genesis_hash,
		protocol_id,
		metrics_registry: config.prometheus_config.as_ref().map(|config| config.registry.clone()),
		block_announce_config,
		bitswap_config: None,
		notification_metrics,
	};

	let network_worker = Network::new(network_params)?;
	let network_service = network_worker.network_service();

	// The network worker is responsible for gathering all network messages and processing
	// them. This is quite a heavy task, and at the time of the writing of this comment it
	// frequently happens that this future takes several seconds or in some situations
	// even more than a minute until it has processed its entire queue. This is clearly an
	// issue, and ideally we would like to fix the network future to take as little time as
	// possible, but we also take the extra harm-prevention measure to execute the networking
	// future using `spawn_blocking`.
	spawn_handle.spawn_blocking("network-worker", Some("networking"), async move {
		// The notification service must be kept alive to allow litep2p to handle
		// requests under the hood. It has been noted that without the notification
		// service of the `/block-announces/1` protocol, collators are not advertised
		// and their produced blocks do not propagate:
		// https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/8474
		//
		// This is because the full nodes on the relay chain will attempt to establish
		// a connection to the minimal relay chain. By dropping the notification service,
		// litep2p would terminate the background task which handles the `/block-announces/1`
		// notification protocol. The downstream effect of this is that the full node
		// would ban and disconnect the the minimal relay chain node.
		let _notification_service = notification_service;
		network_worker.run().await;
	});

	Ok((network_service, Arc::new(SyncOracle {})))
}

fn adjust_network_config_light_in_peers(config: &mut NetworkConfiguration) {
	let light_client_in_peers = (config.default_peers_set.in_peers +
		config.default_peers_set.out_peers)
		.saturating_sub(config.default_peers_set_num_full);
	if light_client_in_peers > 0 {
		tracing::debug!(target: crate::LOG_TARGET, "Detected {light_client_in_peers} peer slots for light clients. Since this minimal node does support\
											 neither syncing nor light-client request/response, we are setting them to 0.");
	}
	config.default_peers_set.in_peers =
		config.default_peers_set.in_peers.saturating_sub(light_client_in_peers);
}

struct SyncOracle;

impl sp_consensus::SyncOracle for SyncOracle {
	fn is_major_syncing(&self) -> bool {
		false
	}

	fn is_offline(&self) -> bool {
		true
	}
}

fn get_block_announce_proto_config<Network: NetworkBackend<Block, Hash>>(
	protocol_id: ProtocolId,
	fork_id: &Option<String>,
	roles: Roles,
	best_number: NumberFor<Block>,
	best_hash: Hash,
	genesis_hash: Hash,
	metrics: NotificationMetrics,
	peer_store_handle: Arc<dyn PeerStoreProvider>,
) -> (Network::NotificationProtocolConfig, Box<dyn NotificationService>) {
	let block_announces_protocol = {
		let genesis_hash = genesis_hash.as_ref();
		if let Some(ref fork_id) = fork_id {
			format!("/{}/{}/block-announces/1", array_bytes::bytes2hex("", genesis_hash), fork_id)
		} else {
			format!("/{}/block-announces/1", array_bytes::bytes2hex("", genesis_hash))
		}
	};

	Network::notification_config(
		block_announces_protocol.into(),
		iter::once(format!("/{}/block-announces/1", protocol_id.as_ref()).into()).collect(),
		1024 * 1024,
		Some(NotificationHandshake::new(BlockAnnouncesHandshake::<Block>::build(
			roles,
			best_number,
			best_hash,
			genesis_hash,
		))),
		// NOTE: `set_config` will be ignored by `protocol.rs` as the block announcement
		// protocol is still hardcoded into the peerset.
		SetConfig {
			in_peers: 0,
			out_peers: 0,
			reserved_nodes: Vec::new(),
			non_reserved_mode: NonReservedPeerMode::Deny,
		},
		metrics,
		peer_store_handle,
	)
}