I see, thanks. One last question: So shouldn't I be able to simply build a List<File> and append paths to my block files "/path/to/blk00000.dat"? I tried this and when I do blockFileLoader.next() I get an error. Don't think this works.
On 19 February 2017 at 03:25, Jameson Lopp <jameson.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right, getReferenceClientList > <https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/blob/3177bd52a2bfa491c5902e95b8840030e1a31159/core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/utils/BlockFileLoader.java#L53> > just tries to be smart and figure out the location of your block files > automatically. If it doesn't work for your system, you can model its logic > to create your own function that builds a list of your block files. > > For your purposes, I'm assuming you're analyzing Bitcoin on mainnet, so > you'd pass MainNetParams.get(). The only other thing for you to figure out > then would be your data storage, which would be your "chain" object or > whatever function to which you pass the blocks to be processed. > > - Jameson > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Nishil Shah <nishil.sha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It doesn't take in a file name? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Feb 19, 2017, at 12:33 AM, Jameson Lopp <jameson.l...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I think what you want is the BlockFileLoader, as seen here in the >> BlockImporter: https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/blob/mas >> ter/tools/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/tools/BlockImporter.java#L67 >> >> - Jameson >> >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Nishil Shah <nishil.sha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Is there anyway to import blk?????.dat files individually and parse them >>> into Block objects? I'm not trying to use any network connections. I want >>> to get everything from disk if possible to make my computations/processing >>> as fast as possible because I want parse many files in parallel. I've read >>> about some "block importer" tool but can't really see how to use it in my >>> situation. Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "bitcoinj" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >> pic/bitcoinj/4wB6-i7ys8E/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "bitcoinj" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/bitcoinj/4wB6-i7ys8E/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
