From 40b556d3742a1f65d67e2d4c760d0b13fe8be5b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:53:17 +0100 Subject: evhttpd implementation - *Replace usage of boost::asio with [libevent2](http://libevent.org/)*. boost::asio is not part of C++11, so unlike other boost there is no forwards-compatibility reason to stick with it. Together with #4738 (convert json_spirit to UniValue), this rids Bitcoin Core of the worst offenders with regard to compile-time slowness. - *Replace spit-and-duct-tape http server with evhttp*. Front-end http handling is handled by libevent, a work queue (with configurable depth and parallelism) is used to handle application requests. - *Wrap HTTP request in C++ class*; this makes the application code mostly HTTP-server-neutral - *Refactor RPC to move all http-specific code to a separate file*. Theoreticaly this can allow building without HTTP server but with another RPC backend, e.g. Qt's debug console (currently not implemented) or future RPC mechanisms people may want to use. - *HTTP dispatch mechanism*; services (e.g., RPC, REST) register which URL paths they want to handle. By using a proven, high-performance asynchronous networking library (also used by Tor) and HTTP server, problems such as #5674, #5655, #344 should be avoided. What works? bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, bitcoin-qt. Unit tests and RPC/REST tests pass. The aim for now is everything but SSL support. Configuration options: - `-rpcthreads`: repurposed as "number of work handler threads". Still defaults to 4. - `-rpcworkqueue`: maximum depth of work queue. When this is reached, new requests will return a 500 Internal Error. - `-rpctimeout`: inactivity time, in seconds, after which to disconnect a client. - `-debug=http`: low-level http activity logging --- src/bitcoind.cpp | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/bitcoind.cpp') diff --git a/src/bitcoind.cpp b/src/bitcoind.cpp index 39bb301f44..b512f74c22 100644 --- a/src/bitcoind.cpp +++ b/src/bitcoind.cpp @@ -10,11 +10,16 @@ #include "noui.h" #include "scheduler.h" #include "util.h" +#include "httpserver.h" +#include "httprpc.h" +#include "rpcserver.h" #include #include #include +#include + /* Introduction text for doxygen: */ /*! \mainpage Developer documentation @@ -44,7 +49,7 @@ void WaitForShutdown(boost::thread_group* threadGroup) } if (threadGroup) { - threadGroup->interrupt_all(); + Interrupt(*threadGroup); threadGroup->join_all(); } } @@ -154,7 +159,7 @@ bool AppInit(int argc, char* argv[]) if (!fRet) { - threadGroup.interrupt_all(); + Interrupt(threadGroup); // threadGroup.join_all(); was left out intentionally here, because we didn't re-test all of // the startup-failure cases to make sure they don't result in a hang due to some // thread-blocking-waiting-for-another-thread-during-startup case -- cgit v1.2.3