fix(dash-spv): persist masternode list - #990
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`test_masternode_list_sync_with_restart` compared masternode sync progress either side of a restart. A from-scratch network re-sync produces the same progress as a restored one, so the test passed while the list was being rebuilt from nothing every time (#988). It now looks at the disk. After the first session's clean shutdown every directory that session earned must hold a file, and across the restart no directory may disappear or lose files. Fails as written: the first session builds four masternodes and writes no `masternodestate/`, while `block_headers/`, `filter_headers/`, `metadata/` and `peers/` all persist through the same shutdown to the same directory — so the storage layer and the shutdown are ruled out as causes. `filters/` and `blocks/` are left out of the must-hold set on purpose: the client stops as soon as the masternode phase reports `Synced`, which is before the filter phase leaves `WaitForEvents`, so they are legitimately empty here. The no-shrink check still covers them. The engine is read before the shutdown and the count carried into the failure message, so the assertion cannot be satisfied by a session that synced nothing — which is the shape #954 produces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015NhHBDGiKfiGpy7FwooyfS
`storage/masternode.rs` has had no callers outside `storage/` since the legacy sync engine was deleted, and `DashSpvClient::new` always built a fresh `MasternodeListEngine`. Every start therefore rebuilt the whole list from the network — a full QRInfo plus every MnListDiff — while headers, filters and ChainLocks resumed from disk. On mobile, where the host app restarts the client every minute or two, the rebuild rarely finishes, so a client can run with no masternode list at all despite having synced one in a previous session (#988). Both halves are wired here. `MasternodesManager` takes the state store and writes the engine wherever it reports `MasternodeStateUpdated` — the same condition that makes the new state worth keeping. `DashSpvClient::new` loads the state and seeds the engine, before the managers are built: `MasternodesManager::new` already recovers its resume point from the engine's stored lists, so a restore landing after it would be ignored. Both directions fail soft. An unwritten list costs a rebuild next start; a failed sync costs the list now. Likewise state that cannot be read is logged and rebuilt, which is exactly the old behaviour. `test_masternode_list_sync_with_restart` now passes, and the log shows why: `0 base hash(es)` on the first sync, `Restored masternode state from height 406`, then `1 base hash(es)` on the second — the delta, not a rebuild. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015NhHBDGiKfiGpy7FwooyfS
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe client restores the masternode engine from disk at startup. The masternode manager persists verified engine state during synchronization. Storage and integration tests now validate persistence across restart. Masternode persistence
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR persists and restores masternode state across restarts, but an existing state file is accepted without confirming that it belongs to the configured network. Reusing storage across networks could load incompatible state into security-sensitive transaction and chain-lock processing, so merge should wait for network validation or explicit owner acceptance. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DashSpvClient
participant PersistentMasternodeStateStorage
participant MasternodesManager
participant MasternodeListEngine
DashSpvClient->>PersistentMasternodeStateStorage: load_engine(network)
PersistentMasternodeStateStorage-->>DashSpvClient: restored or default engine
DashSpvClient->>MasternodesManager: construct with state storage
MasternodesManager->>MasternodeListEngine: verify sync update
MasternodesManager->>PersistentMasternodeStateStorage: store_engine(engine, height)
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The implementation addresses the core persistence requirements in [ Resolution Add regression coverage for restarting with the network unavailable. Assert that the persisted masternode engine, lists, quorum cycles, and synced height/hash are restored and remain usable without network access. Also verify that subsequent QRInfo and MnListDiff requests use the restored state as their base when applicable.
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`MasternodeStateStorage` took and returned `MasternodeState`, the on-disk shape, so both callers had to build it: the manager serialized the engine, stamped a timestamp and assembled the struct, and the client took it apart again. Two places knew the encoding, and neither was the one that owns it. The trait now takes and returns the engine. `MasternodeState` stays as the file format and is built and read inside `masternode.rs` alone — it is no longer named outside `storage/`. Changing how the engine is encoded, which the current JSON-array-of-bytes shape will want, is now an edit to one file rather than three. `load_engine` also absorbs the case that is not an error: nothing persisted yet yields the network's default, which is where a first run starts anyway, so the caller loses an `Option` it only ever mapped one way. A file that exists and cannot be read stays an `Err`, because that one is worth seeing — the client logs it and rebuilds from the network. The masternode manager's persistence path goes from 24 lines to 5, the client's restore from 22 to 8. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015NhHBDGiKfiGpy7FwooyfS
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In `@dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs`:
- Around line 71-78: Update the masternode engine initialization in
MasternodeManager::new to validate the loaded engine’s network against
config.network before using it. Reject mismatches and fall back to
MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network(config.network), either by adding the
check in load_engine or immediately after loading, while preserving the existing
fallback for load errors.
In `@dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs`:
- Around line 349-361: The new persist_engine storage path lacks in-module
coverage. Add a #[tokio::test] near the manager tests that creates a real
PersistentMasternodeStateStorage, populates the manager engine, calls
persist_engine, then loads the persisted state and verifies the engine data and
height were retained.
In `@dash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/tests_sync.rs`:
- Around line 147-150: Update the restart test around the second client startup
to stop or block Dashd before launching it, preventing normal network
synchronization. Assert that the engine restores the expected masternode state
from storage and resumes progress before any network sync can occur, while
retaining the existing storage non-shrink assertion for the restart flow.
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dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rsdash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rsdash-spv/src/storage/mod.rsdash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rsdash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/sync_manager.rsdash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/helpers.rsdash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/tests_sync.rs
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| let masternode_engine = { | ||
| if config.enable_masternodes { | ||
| Some(Arc::new(RwLock::new(MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network( | ||
| config.network, | ||
| )))) | ||
| let loader = storage.masternodestate(); | ||
| let engine = loader.read().await.load_engine(config.network).await; | ||
| let engine = engine.unwrap_or_else(|e| { | ||
| tracing::warn!("Could not load masternode state, rebuilding: {}", e); | ||
| MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network(config.network) | ||
| }); |
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Reject persisted engines for the wrong network.
PersistentMasternodeStateStorage stores all networks in masternodestate/masternodestate.json. For an existing file, load_engine(network) returns the serialized engine without comparing engine.network with network. MasternodesManager::new then stores config.network separately while using the loaded engine. A shared path can therefore run a Testnet engine with a Mainnet manager and use incorrect network parameters.
Scope storage by network, or reject a loaded engine when engine.network != config.network and use default_for_network(config.network).
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In `@dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs` around lines 71 - 78, Update the masternode
engine initialization in MasternodeManager::new to validate the loaded engine’s
network against config.network before using it. Reject mismatches and fall back
to MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network(config.network), either by adding
the check in load_engine or immediately after loading, while preserving the
existing fallback for load errors.
| /// Best effort: an unwritten list costs a rebuild next start, a failed sync | ||
| /// costs the list now. | ||
| pub(super) async fn persist_engine(&self, height: u32) { | ||
| let Some(storage) = &self.state_storage else { | ||
| return; | ||
| }; | ||
| let engine = self.engine.read().await; | ||
| if let Err(e) = storage.write().await.store_engine(&engine, height).await { | ||
| tracing::warn!("Could not persist masternode state at {height}: {e}"); | ||
| } else { | ||
| tracing::debug!("Persisted masternode state at height {height}"); | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Add an in-module test for persist_engine.
All manager tests in this file pass None for state_storage, so they do not execute the new storage write path. Add a #[tokio::test] that provides a real PersistentMasternodeStateStorage, persists a populated engine, and loads it back.
As per coding guidelines, write unit tests for new functionality and comprehensive in-module tests under dash-spv/src.
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In `@dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs` around lines 349 - 361, The new
persist_engine storage path lacks in-module coverage. Add a #[tokio::test] near
the manager tests that creates a real PersistentMasternodeStateStorage,
populates the manager engine, calls persist_engine, then loads the persisted
state and verifies the engine data and height were retained.
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Few things i think that should be addressed here:
1. Nothing in the PR proves the restore path actually works.
load_engine falls back to default_for_network on any deserialization error, and lifecycle.rs swallows that with a warning. Both new assertions survive that fallback: assert_storage_persisted only proves a file exists, and assert_storage_did_not_shrink only compares file counts. A second session that failed to load and re-synced from scratch reaches the same height and passes every assertion identically. #988 names this exact gap ("only a disk-level assertion, state file exists / engine non-empty before network traffic, distinguishes them"), and the PR adds the first half only. There is also no mod tests in storage/masternode.rs, so the store_engine to load_engine round-trip is entirely unexercised.
2. The engine is written to disk as a JSON array of individual byte values.
MasternodeState.engine_state is a Vec, store_engine fills it with serde_json::to_vec(engine), and the outer struct then goes through serde_json::to_string_pretty. serde_json writes a Vec as an array of integers and the pretty printer puts each one on its own line, so every byte of engine JSON costs roughly eight bytes of file.
To put a number on it: dash/tests/data/test_DML_diffs/masternode_list_engine.hex is a real mainnet engine snapshot, with height 0 mapping to the mainnet genesis hash and a block container spanning heights 0 to 2243493. It holds 29 masternode lists and decodes from 23 MB of bincode, the first list alone carrying 3147 masternodes. As JSON that is somewhere around 70 MB, and after the array-of-integers wrapper the file this PR writes would be in the region of half a gigabyte.
3. That file grows without bound and is rewritten in full on every block.
MasternodeListEngine.masternode_lists holds a complete masternode list per height and nothing prunes it anywhere in dash/src/sml or dash-spv. The fixture above shows the shape of it: 23 MB across 29 lists is about 800 KB each, roughly what a single full 3147-entry list costs, so every height really is storing its own complete copy rather than a delta. apply_diff adds one on every incremental update and persist_engine fires after every completed pipeline, so on mainnet the engine gains a full list every 2.5 minutes and the whole accumulated blob is re-serialized, written and fsynced each time.
Worth noting where that cost lands: it runs under self.engine.read(), held across both serde_json passes and the fsync. Tokio's RwLock queues a pending writer ahead of new readers, so for however long that takes, InstantSend verification and the next apply_diff are both waiting on it.
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@xdustinface 2 and 3 are known issues, I am working on a PR that changes how we persist the master nodes, but the issue I am fixing is wiring the existing storage. About 1, I would rather prefer not to write tests now, as I said, I am working on a R that changes how we persist masternodes, writing test to later remove them is kind of stupid, I can push the commits redesigning the master node storage ontop this PR if you think thats a better idea, I already said so in the PR description |
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Okay well approved just in case there is a hurry for this, feel free to merge it but i think since you anyway already work on the proper solution we might as well just close this PR and get the proper one in right away?
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I am verifying the other PR, I won't merge this one either unless someone needs it asap. Will let you know when the other one is ready @xdustinface |
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This PR is far from perfect, it wires the already written storage so master nodes can be persisted. It's left for a future PR to study how to reduce the amount of space it takes in disc and the fact that we write the entire file on every persist call.
I can address this issues before merging the PR if there is time for it
Closes #988
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