private synchronized boolean add(Block block, boolean tryConnecting)
throws BlockStoreException, VerificationException, ScriptException {
if (System.currentTimeMillis() - statsLastTime > 1000) {
// More than a second passed since last stats logging.
log.info("{} blocks per second", statsBlocksAdded);
statsLastTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
statsBlocksAdded = 0;
}
// We check only the chain head for double adds here to avoid potentially expensive block chain
// misses.
if (block.equals(chainHead.getHeader())) {
// Duplicate add of the block at the top of the chain, can be a natural artifact of the
// download process.
return true;
}
// Prove the block is internally valid: hash is lower than target, merkle root is correct and so
// on.
try {
block.verify();
} catch (VerificationException e) {
log.error("Failed to verify block:", e);
log.error(block.toString());
throw e;
}
// Try linking it to a place in the currently known blocks.
StoredBlock storedPrev = blockStore.get(block.getPrevBlockHash());
if (storedPrev == null) {
// We can't find the previous block. Probably we are still in the process of downloading the
// chain and a
// block was solved whilst we were doing it. We put it to one side and try to connect it later
// when we
// have more blocks.
log.warn("Block does not connect: {}", block.getHashAsString());
unconnectedBlocks.add(block);
return false;
} else {
// It connects to somewhere on the chain. Not necessarily the top of the best known chain.
//
// Create a new StoredBlock from this block. It will throw away the transaction data so when
// block goes
// out of scope we will reclaim the used memory.
StoredBlock newStoredBlock = storedPrev.build(block);
checkDifficultyTransitions(storedPrev, newStoredBlock);
blockStore.put(newStoredBlock);
// block.transactions may be null here if we received only a header and not a full block. This
// does not
// happen currently but might in future if getheaders is implemented.
connectBlock(newStoredBlock, storedPrev, block.transactions);
}
if (tryConnecting) tryConnectingUnconnected();
statsBlocksAdded++;
return true;
}
