/**
* Sleep every interval period, and send the keep alive if no other packets are sent. The
* interrupt call is made on this thread when any other message is sent.
*/
public void run() {
while (this.isRunning) {
try {
Thread.sleep(interval);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
continue;
}
try {
peer.sendMessage(Message.KEEP_ALIVE_MSG);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Couldn't send keep alive message");
}
}
}
public void run() {
// We now have enough connected peers to send the transaction.
// This can be called immediately if we already have enough. Otherwise it'll be called from a
// peer
// thread.
// We will send the tx simultaneously to half the connected peers and wait to hear back from
// at least half
// of the other half, i.e., with 4 peers connected we will send the tx to 2 randomly chosen
// peers, and then
// wait for it to show up on one of the other two. This will be taken as sign of network
// acceptance. As can
// be seen, 4 peers is probably too little - it doesn't taken many broken peers for tx
// propagation to have
// a big effect.
List<Peer> peers = peerGroup.getConnectedPeers(); // snapshots
// We intern the tx here so we are using a canonical version of the object (as it's
// unfortunately mutable).
pinnedTx = peerGroup.getMemoryPool().intern(tx);
// Prepare to send the transaction by adding a listener that'll be called when confidence
// changes.
// Only bother with this if we might actually hear back:
if (minConnections > 1) pinnedTx.getConfidence().addEventListener(new ConfidenceChange());
// Satoshis code sends an inv in this case and then lets the peer request the tx data. We just
// blast out the TX here for a couple of reasons. Firstly it's simpler: in the case where we
// have
// just a single connection we don't have to wait for getdata to be received and handled
// before
// completing the future in the code immediately below. Secondly, it's faster. The reason the
// Satoshi client sends an inv is privacy - it means you can't tell if the peer originated the
// transaction or not. However, we are not a fully validating node and this is advertised in
// our version message, as SPV nodes cannot relay it doesn't give away any additional
// information
// to skip the inv here - we wouldn't send invs anyway.
int numConnected = peers.size();
numToBroadcastTo = (int) Math.max(1, Math.round(Math.ceil(peers.size() / 2.0)));
numWaitingFor = (int) Math.ceil((peers.size() - numToBroadcastTo) / 2.0);
Collections.shuffle(peers, random);
peers = peers.subList(0, numToBroadcastTo);
log.info(
"broadcastTransaction: We have {} peers, adding {} to the memory pool and sending to {} peers, will wait for {}: {}",
numConnected,
tx.getHashAsString(),
numToBroadcastTo,
numWaitingFor,
Joiner.on(",").join(peers));
for (Peer peer : peers) {
try {
peer.sendMessage(pinnedTx);
// We don't record the peer as having seen the tx in the memory pool because we want to
// track only
// how many peers announced to us.
} catch (Exception e) {
log.error("Caught exception sending to {}", peer, e);
}
}
// If we've been limited to talk to only one peer, we can't wait to hear back because the
// remote peer won't tell us about transactions we just announced to it for obvious reasons.
// So we just have to assume we're done, at that point. This happens when we're not given
// any peer discovery source and the user just calls connectTo() once.
if (minConnections == 1) {
future.set(pinnedTx);
}
}