#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright (c) 2014-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. """Test the getchaintips RPC. - introduce a network split - work on chains of different lengths - join the network together again - verify that getchaintips now returns two chain tips. """ from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework from test_framework.util import assert_equal class GetChainTipsTest (BitcoinTestFramework): def set_test_params(self): self.num_nodes = 4 def run_test(self): tips = self.nodes[0].getchaintips() assert_equal(len(tips), 1) assert_equal(tips[0]['branchlen'], 0) assert_equal(tips[0]['height'], 200) assert_equal(tips[0]['status'], 'active') # Split the network and build two chains of different lengths. self.split_network() self.nodes[0].generatetoaddress(10, self.nodes[0].get_deterministic_priv_key().address) self.nodes[2].generatetoaddress(20, self.nodes[2].get_deterministic_priv_key().address) self.sync_all(self.nodes[:2]) self.sync_all(self.nodes[2:]) tips = self.nodes[1].getchaintips () assert_equal (len (tips), 1) shortTip = tips[0] assert_equal (shortTip['branchlen'], 0) assert_equal (shortTip['height'], 210) assert_equal (tips[0]['status'], 'active') tips = self.nodes[3].getchaintips () assert_equal (len (tips), 1) longTip = tips[0] assert_equal (longTip['branchlen'], 0) assert_equal (longTip['height'], 220) assert_equal (tips[0]['status'], 'active') # Join the network halves and check that we now have two tips # (at least at the nodes that previously had the short chain). self.join_network () tips = self.nodes[0].getchaintips () assert_equal (len (tips), 2) assert_equal (tips[0], longTip) assert_equal (tips[1]['branchlen'], 10) assert_equal (tips[1]['status'], 'valid-fork') # We already checked that the long tip is the active one, # update data to verify that the short tip matches the expected one. tips[1]['branchlen'] = 0 tips[1]['status'] = 'active' tips[1]['forkpoint'] = tips[1]['hash'] assert_equal (tips[1], shortTip) if __name__ == '__main__': GetChainTipsTest ().main ()