Introduce Mining interface

Start out with a single method isTestChain() that's used by the getblocktemplate RPC.

2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/interfaces/init.h b/src/interfaces/init.h
index addc45aa26..094ead399d 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/init.h
+++ b/src/interfaces/init.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #include <interfaces/chain.h>
 #include <interfaces/echo.h>
+#include <interfaces/mining.h>
 #include <interfaces/node.h>
 #include <interfaces/wallet.h>
 
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ public:
     virtual ~Init() = default;
     virtual std::unique_ptr<Node> makeNode() { return nullptr; }
     virtual std::unique_ptr<Chain> makeChain() { return nullptr; }
+    virtual std::unique_ptr<Mining> makeMining() { return nullptr; }
     virtual std::unique_ptr<WalletLoader> makeWalletLoader(Chain& chain) { return nullptr; }
     virtual std::unique_ptr<Echo> makeEcho() { return nullptr; }
     virtual Ipc* ipc() { return nullptr; }
diff --git a/src/interfaces/mining.h b/src/interfaces/mining.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..afcd8d1cda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/interfaces/mining.h
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2024 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_INTERFACES_MINING_H
+#define BITCOIN_INTERFACES_MINING_H
+
+namespace node {
+struct NodeContext;
+} // namespace node
+
+namespace interfaces {
+
+//! Interface giving clients (RPC, Stratum v2 Template Provider in the future)
+//! ability to create block templates.
+
+class Mining
+{
+public:
+    virtual ~Mining() {}
+
+    //! If this chain is exclusively used for testing
+    virtual bool isTestChain() = 0;
+
+    //! Get internal node context. Useful for RPC and testing,
+    //! but not accessible across processes.
+    virtual node::NodeContext* context() { return nullptr; }
+};
+
+//! Return implementation of Mining interface.
+std::unique_ptr<Mining> MakeMining(node::NodeContext& node);
+
+} // namespace interfaces
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_INTERFACES_MINING_H