This PR significantly changes the APIs for instantiating Ethereum nodes in
a Go program. The new APIs are not backwards-compatible, but we feel that
this is made up for by the much simpler way of registering services on
node.Node. You can find more information and rationale in the design
document: https://gist.github.com/renaynay/5bec2de19fde66f4d04c535fd24f0775.
There is also a new feature in Node's Go API: it is now possible to
register arbitrary handlers on the user-facing HTTP server. In geth, this
facility is used to enable GraphQL.
There is a single minor change relevant for geth users in this PR: The
GraphQL API is no longer available separately from the JSON-RPC HTTP
server. If you want GraphQL, you need to enable it using the
./geth --http --graphql flag combination.
The --graphql.port and --graphql.addr flags are no longer available.
# Conflicts:
# cmd/faucet/faucet.go
# cmd/geth/chaincmd.go
# cmd/geth/config.go
# cmd/geth/consolecmd.go
# cmd/geth/main.go
# cmd/utils/flags.go
# cmd/wnode/main.go
# core/rawdb/freezer.go
# eth/api_backend.go
# eth/backend.go
# ethclient/ethclient_test.go
# ethstats/ethstats.go
# graphql/service.go
# internal/ethapi/backend.go
# les/api_backend.go
# les/api_test.go
# les/checkpointoracle/oracle.go
# les/client.go
# les/commons.go
# les/server.go
# miner/stresstest/stress_clique.go
# miner/stresstest/stress_ethash.go
# mobile/geth.go
# node/api.go
# node/node.go
# node/node_example_test.go
# node/node_test.go
# node/rpcstack.go
# node/rpcstack_test.go
# node/service.go
# node/service_test.go
# node/utils_test.go
# p2p/simulations/examples/ping-pong.go
# p2p/testing/peerpool.go
# p2p/testing/protocolsession.go
# p2p/testing/protocoltester.go
# whisper/mailserver/server_test.go
# whisper/whisperv6/api_test.go
# whisper/whisperv6/filter_test.go
# whisper/whisperv6/whisper.go
# whisper/whisperv6/whisper_test.go
