* Improves `BestBlock` comment
* Improves `TraceDB` comment
* Improves `journaldb::Algorithm` comment.
Probably the whole enum should be renamed to `Strategy` or something alike.
* Comments some of the `Client`'s fields
* Deglobs client imports
* Fixes comments
* Extracts `import_lock` to `Importer` struct
* Extracts `verifier` to `Importer` struct
* Extracts `block_queue` to `Importer` struct
* Extracts `miner` to `Importer` struct
* Extracts `ancient_verifier` to `Importer` struct
* Extracts `rng` to `Importer` struct
* Extracts `import_old_block` to `Importer` struct
* Adds `Nonce` trait
* Adds `Balance` trait
* Adds `ChainInfo` trait
* Fixes imports for tests using `chain_info` method
* Adds `BlockInfo` trait
* Adds more `ChainInfo` imports
* Adds `BlockInfo` imports
* Adds `ReopenBlock` trait
* Adds `PrepareOpenBlock` trait
* Fixes import in tests
* Adds `CallContract` trait
* Fixes imports in tests using `call_contract` method
* Adds `TransactionInfo` trait
* Adds `RegistryInfo` trait
* Fixes imports in tests using `registry_address` method
* Adds `ScheduleInfo` trait
* Adds `ImportSealedBlock` trait
* Fixes imports in test using `import_sealed_block` method
* Adds `BroadcastProposalBlock` trait
* Migrates `Miner` to static dispatch
* Fixes tests
* Moves `calculate_enacted_retracted` to `Importer`
* Moves import-related methods to `Importer`
* Removes redundant `import_old_block` wrapper
* Extracts `import_block*` into separate trait
* Fixes tests
* Handles `Pending` in `LightFetch`
* Handles `Pending` in filters
* Handles `Pending` in `ParityClient`
* Handles `Pending` in `EthClient`
* Removes `BlockId::Pending`, partly refactors dependent code
* Adds `StateInfo` trait
* Exports `StateOrBlock` and `BlockChain` types from `client` module
* Refactors `balance` RPC using generic API
* Refactors `storage_at` RPC using generic API
* Makes `MinerService::pending_state`'s return type dynamic
* Adds `StateOrBlock` and `BlockChain` types
* Adds impl of `client::BlockChain` for `Client`
* Exports `StateInfo` trait from `client` module
* Missing `self` use
To be fixed up to "Adds impl of `client::BlockChain` for `Client`"
* Adds `number_to_id` and refactors dependent RPC methods
* Refactors `code_at` using generic API
* Adds `StateClient` trait
* Refactors RPC to use `StateClient` trait
* Reverts `client::BlockChain` trait stuff, refactors methods to accept `StateOrBlock`
* Refactors TestClient
* Adds helper function `block_number_to_id`
* Uses `block_number_to_id` instead of local function
* Handles `Pending` in `list_accounts` and `list_storage_keys`
* Attempt to use associated types for state instead of trait objects
* Simplifies `state_at_beginning`
* Extracts `call` and `call_many` into separate trait
* Refactors `build_last_hashes` to accept reference
* Exports `Call` type from the module
* Refactors `call` and `call_many` to accept state and header
* Exports `state_at` in `StateClient`
* Exports `pending_block_header` from `MinerService`
* Refactors RPC `call` method using new API
* Adds missing parentheses
* Refactors `parity::call` to use new call API
* Update .gitlab-ci.yml
fix gitlab lint
* Fixes error handling
* Refactors `traces::call` and `call_many` to use new call API
* Refactors `call_contract`
* Refactors `block_header`
* Refactors internal RPC method `block`
* Moves `estimate_gas` to `Call` trait, refactors parameters
* Refactors `estimate_gas` in RPC
* Refactors `uncle`
* Refactors RPC `transaction`
* Covers missing branches
* Makes it all compile, fixes compiler grumbles
* Adds casts in `blockchain` module
* Fixes `PendingBlock` tests, work on `MinerService`
* Adds test stubs for StateClient and EngineInfo
* Makes `state_db` public
* Adds missing impls for `TestBlockChainClient`
* Adds trait documentation
* Adds missing docs to the `state_db` module
* Fixes trivial compilation errors
* Moves `code_hash` method to a `BlockInfo` trait
* Refactors `Verifier` to be generic over client
* Refactors `TransactionFilter` to be generic over client
* Refactors `Miner` and `Client` to reflect changes in verifier and txfilter API
* Moves `ServiceTransactionChecker` back to `ethcore`
* Fixes trait bounds in `Miner` API
* Fixes `Client`
* Fixes lifetime bound in `FullFamilyParams`
* Adds comments to `FullFamilyParams`
* Fixes imports in `ethcore`
* Fixes BlockNumber handling in `code_at` and `replay_block_transactions`
* fix compile issues
* First step to redundant trait merge
* Fixes compilation error in RPC tests
* Adds mock `State` as a stub for `TestClient`
* Handles `StateOrBlock::State` in `TestBlockChainClient::balance`
* Fixes `transaction_count` RPC
* Fixes `transaction_count`
* Moves `service_transaction.json` to the `contracts` subfolder
* Fixes compilation errors in tests
* Refactors client to use `AccountData`
* Refactors client to use `BlockChain`
* Refactors miner to use aggregate traits
* Adds `SealedBlockImporter` trait
* Refactors miner to use `SealedBlockImporter` trait
* Removes unused imports
* Simplifies `RegistryInfo::registry_address`
* Fixes indentation
* Removes commented out trait bound
* aura: broadcast empty step message instead of sealing empty block
* aura: add empty_step messages to seal
* aura: include parent_hash in empty step message
* aura: verify received empty step messages
* aura: verify empty step messages in block
* aura: fix dead lock on empty_steps
* aura: fix EmptyStep Encodable
* aura: take number of empty steps into account in chain score
* aura: use empty step signers for finality
* aura: add empty "empty step" messages to seal when reading from spec
* aura: fix EmptyStep rlp encoding
* aura: use Vec<u8> instead of Bytes
* aura: fix block empty step verification
* Update .gitlab-ci.yml
fix lint
* aura: fix accumulation of empty step signatures for finality
* aura: include empty steps in seal signature
* aura: configurable max number of empty steps
* engine: pass block header to seal_fields method
This is necessary to make the number of seal fields dynamic,
e.g. activating a transition on a certain block number that changes
the seal.
* aura: add transition to enable empty step messages
* aura: clear old empty step messages on verify_block_external
* aura: ignore empty step messages from the future
* aura: report skipped primaries when empty steps are not enabled
* aura: fix tests
* aura: report misbehavior
* aura: add tests for rolling finality with multiple signatures
* engine: fix validator set test
In this test the block validation wasn't failing because the block was in the
future (expected failure) but was instead failing because the author of the
block isn't the expected authority. Since we added reporting of blocks produced
by the wrong authority this test started failing.
* aura: reward all the authors of empty step messages
* aura: fix reward attribution for new blocks
* aura: add tests for empty steps broadcasting and inclusion in blocks
* aura: reduce size of empty step messages in seal
* aura: add test for empty step inclusion in blocks
* aura: add test for rewarding of empty steps
* aura: add test for empty steps validation
* aura: fix rlp encoding of sealed empty step
* aura: fix grumbles
* rpc: generate new account id for imported wallets
* ethstore: handle duplicate wallet filenames
* ethstore: simplify deduplication of wallet file names
* ethstore: do not dedup wallet filenames on update
* ethstore: fix minor grumbles
* Refactor updater to use ethabi-derive
* Grumble: do_call type alias
* Empty commit to trigger test re-run
* migration to ethabi-5.0
* migration to ethabi-5.0 in progress
* use ethabi_deriven to generate TransactAcl contract
* use ethabi_deriven to generate Registry contract
* hash-fetch uses ethabi_derive, removed retain cycle from updater, fixed#7720
* node-filter crate uses ethabi_derive to generate peer_set contract interface
* use LruCache in node-filter instead of HashMap
* validator_set engine uses ethabi_derive
* ethcore does not depend on native_contracts
* miner does no depend on native_contracts
* secret_store does not use native_contracts (in progress)
* removed native-contracts
* ethcore and updater does not depend on futures
* updated ethereum-types
* fixed all warnings caused by using new version of ethereum-types
* updated ethabi_derive && ethabi_contract to get rid of warnings
* removed another retain cycle in updater, fixed following minor version on update
* moved contracts out of native_contracts res
* updated ethabi_contract
* fixed failing test
* fixed failing test
* there is no need to create two contracts of the same kind any more
* simplify updater::ReleaseTrack conversion into u8 and add several tests for it
* applied review suggestions
* applied review suggestions
* updated ethereum-types and tiny-keccak
* Updated several deps
* Updated several more dependencies
* Modify dummy file to trigger ci
* fixed update of memmap to 0.6 in ethash crate
* Fixed fetch after update to latest reqwest
* Updated jsonrpc-core with fixes for serde
* add expects in util/version/build.rs
* Move miner away from ethcore.
* Fix ethcore to use miner/transaction.
* Fix tests and warnings.
* fixed incorrect merge of the test in the documentation
* kvdb-rocksdb: update to RocksDB 5.8.8
* kvdb-rocksdb: tune RocksDB options
* Switch to level-style compaction
* Increase default block size (16K), and use bigger blocks for HDDs (64K)
* Increase default file size base (64MB SSDs, 256MB HDDs)
* Create a single block cache shared across all column families
* Tune compaction settings using RocksDB helper functions, taking into account
memory budget spread across all columns
* Configure backgrounds jobs based on the number of CPUs
* Set some default recommended settings
* ethcore: remove unused config blockchain.db_cache_size
* parity: increase default value for db_cache_size
* kvdb-rocksdb: enable compression on all levels
* kvdb-rocksdb: set global db_write_bufer_size
* kvdb-rocksdb: reduce db_write_bufer_size to force earlier flushing
* kvdb-rocksdb: use master branch for rust-rocksdb dependency
* created the dir crate in util
* moved code from ethstore/src/dir/paths.rs to dir crate
* rename dir module in ethstore to accounts_dir to distinguish it
from the dir crate
* changes after @tomusdrw on #6952
