I spent some time changing the internal bitcoin code to use callback hooks, but its far from complete (or even really usable from anything other than the code in the satoshi client itself, it doesnt even have any deregister methods!). As it sits now, it is likely to get more eyeballs and merged for 0.7. If you need additional specific callbacks, adding them would be cool, though I wouldn't recommend relying on the blockstore API to remain even remotely stable for the foreseeable future.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/771 Matt On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 22:13 -0700, Eric Lombrozo wrote: > Hey, guys. > > I've been writing a number of apps that require realtime event > notifications, where the JSON-RPC API clearly doesn't suffice. > > There are two approaches I've been taking to this end: > > 1) Writing my own library for dealing with raw bitcoin structures and > connecting to bitcoin nodes via the bitcoin protocol. > 2) Making custom builds of the satoshi client putting callback hooks > in key points. > > Neither of these two approaches is ideal. (1) involves a lot of code > duplication, (2) involves patching the satoshi client source > each time I grab a later version, with the everpresent risk of > something breaking and the need to continue maintaining these patches. > Moreover, unfortunately many of these key points happen to be in files > like main.cpp which see frequent changes. > > I would like to propose adding these callback hooks to the main > branch. I am willing to help locate these key points, reorganize the > code > to place these methods in separate source files, define a callback > mechanism, and contribute source code. > > -Eric Lombrozo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
