erigon-pulse/cmd/rpcdaemon

Introduction

turbo-geth's rpcdaemon runs in its own seperate process.

This brings many benefits including easier development, the ability to run multiple daemons at once, and the ability to run the daemon remotely. It is possible to run the daemon locally as well (read-only) if both processes have access to the data folder.

Getting Started

The rpcdaemon gets built as part of the main turbo-geth build process, but you can build it directly with this command:

make rpcdaemon

Running locally

If you have direct access to turbo-geth's database folder, you may run the rpcdaemon locally. This may provide faster results.

After building, run this command to start the daemon locally:

./build/bin/rpcdaemon --chaindata ~/Library/TurboGeth/tg/chaindata --http.api=eth,debug,net,web3

Runing RPC daemon locally (with --chaindata option) can only be used when turbo-geth node is not running. This mode is mostly convenient for debugging purposes, because we know that the database does not change as we are sending requests to the RPC daemon.

Note that we've also specified which RPC commands to enable in the above command.

Running remotely

To start the daemon remotely, build it as described above, then run turbo-geth in one terminal window:

./build/bin/tg --private.api.addr=localhost:9090

In another terminal window, start the daemon with the same --private-api setting:

./build/bin/rpcdaemon --private.api.addr=localhost:9090

The daemon should respond with something like:

INFO [date-time] HTTP endpoint opened url=localhost:8545...

Testing

By default, the rpcdaemon serves data from localhost:8545. You may send curl commands to see if things are working.

Try eth_blockNumber for example. In a third terminal window enter this command:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "eth_blockNumber", "params": [], "id":1}' localhost:8545

This should return something along the lines of this (depending on how far your turbo-geth node has synced):

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "result":" 0xa5b9ba"
}

Open / Known Issues

There are still many open issues with the TurboGeth tracing routines. Please see this issue for the current open / known issues related to tracing.

RPC Implementation Status

The following table shows the current implementation status of turbo-geth's RPC daemon.

Command	Avail	Notes
web3_clientVersion	Yes
web3_sha3	Yes
net_listening	HC	(remote only hard coded returns true)
net_peerCount	HC	(hard coded 25 - work continues on Sentry)
net_version	Yes	remote only
eth_blockNumber	Yes
eth_chainID	Yes
eth_protocolVersion	Yes
eth_syncing	Yes
eth_gasPrice	-
eth_getBlockByHash	Yes
eth_getBlockByNumber	Yes
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash	Yes
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber	Yes
eth_getUncleByBlockHashAndIndex	Yes
eth_getUncleByBlockNumberAndIndex	Yes
eth_getUncleCountByBlockHash	Yes
eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber	Yes
eth_getTransactionByHash	Yes
eth_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex	Yes
eth_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex	Yes
eth_getTransactionReceipt	Yes
eth_estimateGas	Yes
eth_getBalance	Yes
eth_getCode	Yes
eth_getTransactionCount	Yes
eth_getStorageAt	Yes
eth_call	Yes
eth_newFilter	-
eth_newBlockFilter	-
eth_newPendingTransactionFilter	-
eth_getFilterChanges	-
eth_getFilterLogs	-
eth_uninstallFilter	-
eth_getLogs	Yes
eth_accounts	-
eth_sendRawTransaction	Yes	remote only
eth_sendTransaction	-
eth_sign	-
eth_signTransaction	-
eth_signTypedData	-
eth_getProof	-
eth_mining	-
eth_coinbase	Yes
eth_hashrate	-
eth_submitHashrate	-
eth_getWork	-
eth_submitWork	-
debug_accountRange	Yes	Private turbo-geth debug module
debug_getModifiedAccountsByNumber	Yes
debug_getModifiedAccountsByHash	Yes
debug_storageRangeAt	Yes
debug_traceTransaction	Yes
trace_call	-	not yet implemented (come help!)
trace_callMany	-	not yet implemented (come help!)
trace_rawTransaction	-	not yet implemented (come help!)
trace_replayBlockTransactions	-	not yet implemented (come help!)
trace_replayTransaction	-	not yet implemented (come help!)
trace_block	Limited	working - has known issues
trace_filter	Limited	working - has known issues
trace_get	Limited	working - has known issues
trace_transaction	Limited	working - has known issues
eth_getCompilers	No	depreciated
eth_compileLLL	No	depreciated
eth_compileSolidity	No	depreciated
eth_compileSerpent	No	depreciated
db_putString	No	depreciated
db_getString	No	depreciated
db_putHex	No	depreciated
db_getHex	No	depreciated
shh_post	No	depreciated
shh_version	No	depreciated
shh_newIdentity	No	depreciated
shh_hasIdentity	No	depreciated
shh_newGroup	No	depreciated
shh_addToGroup	No	depreciated
shh_newFilter	No	depreciated
shh_uninstallFilter	No	depreciated
shh_getFilterChanges	No	depreciated
shh_getMessages	No	depreciated
tg_getHeaderByHash	Yes	turbo-geth only
tg_getHeaderByNumber	Yes	turbo-geth only
tg_getLogsByHash	Yes	turbo-geth only
tg_forks	Yes	turbo-geth only

This table is constantly updated. Please visit again.

Securing the communication between RPC daemon and TG instance via TLS and authentication

In some cases, it is useful to run Turbo-Geth nodes in a different network (for example, in a Public cloud), but RPC daemon locally. To ensure the integrity of communication and access control to the Turbo-Geth node, TLS authentication can be enabled. On the high level, the process consists of these steps (this process needs to be done for any "cluster" of turbo-geth and RPC daemon nodes that are supposed to work together):

1. Generate key pair for the Certificate Authority (CA). The private key of CA will be used to authorise new turbo-geth instances as well as new RPC daemon instances, so that they can mutually authenticate.
2. Create CA certificate file that needs to be deployed on any turbo-geth instance and any RPC daemon. This CA cerf file is used as a "root of trust", whatever is in it, will be trusted by the participants when they authenticate their counterparts.
3. For each turbo-geth instance and each RPC daemon instance, generate a key pair. If you are lazy, you can generate one pair for all turbo-geth nodes, and one pair for all RPC daemons, and copy these keys around.
4. Using the CA private key, create cerificate file for each public key generated on the previous step. This effectively "inducts" these keys into the "cluster of trust".
5. On each instance, deploy 3 files - CA certificate, instance key, and certificate signed by CA for this instance key.

Following is the detailed description of how it can be done using openssl suite of tools.

Generate CA key pair using Elliptic Curve (as opposed to RSA). The generated CA key will be in the file CA-key.pem. Access to this file will allow anyone to later include any new instance key pair into the "cluster of trust", so keep it secure.

openssl ecparam -name prime256v1 -genkey -noout -out CA-key.pem

Create CA self-signed certificate (this command will ask questions, answers aren't important for now). The file created by this command is CA-cert.pem

openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key CA-key.pem -sha256 -days 3650 -out CA-cert.pem

For turbo-geth node, generate a key pair:

openssl ecparam -name prime256v1 -genkey -noout -out TG-key.pem

Also, generate one for the RPC daemon:

openssl ecparam -name prime256v1 -genkey -noout -out RPC-key.pem

Now create cerificate signing request for turbo-geth key pair:

openssl req -new -key TG-key.pem -out TG.csr

And from this request, produce the certificate (signed by CA), proving that this key is now part of the "cluster of trust"

openssl x509 -req -in TG.csr -CA CA-cert.pem -CAkey CA-key.pem -CAcreateserial -out TG.crt -days 3650 -sha256

Then, produce the certificate signing request for RPC daemon key pair:

openssl req -new -key RPC-key.pem -out RPC.csr

And from this request, produce the certificate (signed by CA), proving that this key is now part of the "cluster of trust"

openssl x509 -req -in RPC.csr -CA CA-cert.pem -CAkey CA-key.pem -CAcreateserial -out RPC.crt -days 3650 -sha256

When this is all done, these three files need to be placed on the machine where turbo-geth is running: CA-cert.pem, TG-key.pem, TG.crt. And turbo-geth needs to be run with these extra options:

--tls --tls.cacert CA-cert.pem --tls.key TG-key.pem --tls.cert TG.crt

On the RPC daemon machine, these three files need to be placed: CA-cert.pem, RPC-key.pem, and RPC.crt. And RPC daemon needs to be started with these extra options:

--tls.key RPC-key.pem --tls.cacert CA-cert.pem --tls.cert RPC.crt

WARNING Normally, the "client side" (which in our case is RPC daemon), verifies that the host name of the server matches the "Common Name" attribute of the "server" cerificate. At this stage, this verification is turned off, and it will be turned on again once we have updated the instruction above on how to properly generate cerificates with "Common Name".

When running turbo-geth instance in the Google Cloud, for example, you need to specify the Internal IP in the --private.api.addr option. And, you will need to open the firewall on the port you are using, to that connection to the turbo-geth instances can be made.

For Developers

Code generation

go.mod stores right version of generators, use make grpc to install it and generate code.

Recommended protoc version is 3.x. Installation instructions