sp-consensus 0.8.1

Common utilities for building and using consensus engines in substrate.
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// Copyright 2019-2020 Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
// This file is part of Substrate Consensus Common.

// Substrate Demo is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.

// Substrate Consensus Common is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.

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// along with Substrate Consensus Common.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

use crate::error::Error;
use sp_runtime::traits::{Block as BlockT, NumberFor};


/// The SelectChain trait defines the strategy upon which the head is chosen
/// if multiple forks are present for an opaque definition of "best" in the
/// specific chain build.
///
/// The Strategy can be customized for the two use cases of authoring new blocks
/// upon the best chain or which fork to finalize. Unless implemented differently
/// by default finalization methods fall back to use authoring, so as a minimum
/// `_authoring`-functions must be implemented.
///
/// Any particular user must make explicit, however, whether they intend to finalize
/// or author through the using the right function call, as these might differ in
/// some implementations.
///
/// Non-deterministically finalizing chains may only use the `_authoring` functions.
pub trait SelectChain<Block: BlockT>: Sync + Send + Clone {

	/// Get all leaves of the chain: block hashes that have no children currently.
	/// Leaves that can never be finalized will not be returned.
	fn leaves(&self) -> Result<Vec<<Block as BlockT>::Hash>, Error>;

	/// Among those `leaves` deterministically pick one chain as the generally
	/// best chain to author new blocks upon and probably finalize.
	fn best_chain(&self) -> Result<<Block as BlockT>::Header, Error>;

	/// Get the best descendent of `target_hash` that we should attempt to
	/// finalize next, if any. It is valid to return the given `target_hash`
	/// itself if no better descendent exists.
	fn finality_target(
		&self,
		target_hash: <Block as BlockT>::Hash,
		_maybe_max_number: Option<NumberFor<Block>>
	) -> Result<Option<<Block as BlockT>::Hash>, Error> {
		Ok(Some(target_hash))
	}
}