Manual seal delayed finalize

client/consensus/manual-seal/Cargo.toml

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ assert_matches = "1.3.0"
 async-trait = "0.1.57"
 codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.2.2" }
 futures = "0.3.21"
+futures-timer = "3.0.1"
 log = "0.4.17"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 thiserror = "1.0"

client/consensus/manual-seal/src/lib.rs

@@ -20,17 +20,22 @@
 //! This is suitable for a testing environment.
 
 use futures::prelude::*;
+use futures_timer::Delay;
 use prometheus_endpoint::Registry;
-use sc_client_api::backend::{Backend as ClientBackend, Finalizer};
+use sc_client_api::{
+	backend::{Backend as ClientBackend, Finalizer},
+	client::BlockchainEvents,
+};
 use sc_consensus::{
 	block_import::{BlockImport, BlockImportParams, ForkChoiceStrategy},
 	import_queue::{BasicQueue, BoxBlockImport, Verifier},
 };
 use sp_blockchain::HeaderBackend;
 use sp_consensus::{Environment, Proposer, SelectChain};
+use sp_core::traits::SpawnNamed;
 use sp_inherents::CreateInherentDataProviders;
 use sp_runtime::{traits::Block as BlockT, ConsensusEngineId};
-use std::{marker::PhantomData, sync::Arc};
+use std::{marker::PhantomData, sync::Arc, time::Duration};
 
 mod error;
 mod finalize_block;
@@ -136,6 +141,19 @@ pub struct InstantSealParams<B: BlockT, BI, E, C: ProvideRuntimeApi<B>, TP, SC,
 	pub create_inherent_data_providers: CIDP,
 }
 
+pub struct DelayedFinalizeParams<B: BlockT, C: ProvideRuntimeApi<B>, S: SpawnNamed> {
+	/// Block import instance for well. importing blocks.
+	pub client: Arc<C>,
+
+	pub spawn_handle: S,
+
+	/// The delay in seconds before a block is finalized.
+	pub delay_sec: u64,
+
+	/// phantom type to pin the Block type
+	pub _phantom: PhantomData<B>,
+}
+
 /// Creates the background authorship task for the manual seal engine.
 pub async fn run_manual_seal<B, BI, CB, E, C, TP, SC, CS, CIDP, P>(
 	ManualSealParams {
@@ -303,6 +321,42 @@ pub async fn run_instant_seal_and_finalize<B, BI, CB, E, C, TP, SC, CIDP, P>(
 	.await
 }
 
+pub async fn run_delayed_finalize<B, CB, C, S>(
+	DelayedFinalizeParams {
+		client,
+		spawn_handle,
+		delay_sec,
+		_phantom: PhantomData,
+	}: DelayedFinalizeParams<B, C, S>,
+) where
+	B: BlockT + 'static,
+	CB: ClientBackend<B> + 'static,
+	C: HeaderBackend<B> + Finalizer<B, CB> + ProvideRuntimeApi<B> + BlockchainEvents<B> + 'static,
+	S: SpawnNamed,
+{
+	let mut block_import_stream = client.import_notification_stream();
+
+	while let Some(notification) = block_import_stream.next().await {
+		let delay = Delay::new(Duration::from_secs(delay_sec));
+		let cloned_client = client.clone();
+		spawn_handle.spawn(
+			"delayed-finalize",
+			None,
+			Box::pin(async move {
+				delay.await;
+				finalize_block(FinalizeBlockParams {
+					hash: notification.hash,
+					sender: None,
+					justification: None,
+					finalizer: cloned_client,
+					_phantom: PhantomData,
+				})
+				.await
+			}),
+		);
+	}
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 	use super::*;
@@ -428,6 +482,102 @@ mod tests {
 		assert_eq!(client.header(created_block.hash).unwrap().unwrap().number, 1)
 	}
 
+	#[tokio::test]
+	async fn instant_seal_delayed_finalize() {
+		let builder = TestClientBuilder::new();
+		let (client, select_chain) = builder.build_with_longest_chain();
+		let client = Arc::new(client);
+		let spawner = sp_core::testing::TaskExecutor::new();
+		let genesis_hash = client.info().genesis_hash;
+		let pool = Arc::new(BasicPool::with_revalidation_type(
+			Options::default(),
+			true.into(),
+			api(),
+			None,
+			RevalidationType::Full,
+			spawner.clone(),
+			0,
+			genesis_hash,
+			genesis_hash,
+		));
+		let env = ProposerFactory::new(spawner.clone(), client.clone(), pool.clone(), None, None);
+		// this test checks that blocks are created as soon as transactions are imported into the
+		// pool.
+		let (sender, receiver) = futures::channel::oneshot::channel();
+		let mut sender = Arc::new(Some(sender));
+		let commands_stream =
+			pool.pool().validated_pool().import_notification_stream().map(move |_| {
+				// we're only going to submit one tx so this fn will only be called once.
+				let mut_sender = Arc::get_mut(&mut sender).unwrap();
+				let sender = std::mem::take(mut_sender);
+				EngineCommand::SealNewBlock {
+					create_empty: false,
+					// set to `false`, expecting to be finalized by delayed finalize
+					finalize: false,
+					parent_hash: None,
+					sender,
+				}
+			});
+
+		let future_instant_seal = run_manual_seal(ManualSealParams {
+			block_import: client.clone(),
+			commands_stream,
+			env,
+			client: client.clone(),
+			pool: pool.clone(),
+			select_chain,
+			create_inherent_data_providers: |_, _| async { Ok(()) },
+			consensus_data_provider: None,
+		});
+		std::thread::spawn(|| {
+			let rt = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap();
+			// spawn the background authorship task
+			rt.block_on(future_instant_seal);
+		});
+
+		let delay_sec = 5;
+		let future_delayed_finalize = run_delayed_finalize(DelayedFinalizeParams {
+			client: client.clone(),
+			delay_sec,
+			spawn_handle: spawner,
+			_phantom: PhantomData::default(),
+		});
+		std::thread::spawn(|| {
+			let rt = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap();
+			// spawn the background authorship task
+			rt.block_on(future_delayed_finalize);
+		});
+
+		// submit a transaction to pool.
+		let result = pool.submit_one(&BlockId::Number(0), SOURCE, uxt(Alice, 0)).await;
+		// assert that it was successfully imported
+		assert!(result.is_ok());
+		// assert that the background task returns ok
+		let created_block = receiver.await.unwrap().unwrap();
+		assert_eq!(
+			created_block,
+			CreatedBlock {
+				hash: created_block.hash,
+				aux: ImportedAux {
+					header_only: false,
+					clear_justification_requests: false,
+					needs_justification: false,
+					bad_justification: false,
+					is_new_best: true,
+				}
+			}
+		);
+		// assert that there's a new block in the db.
+		assert!(client.header(created_block.hash).unwrap().is_some());
+		assert_eq!(client.header(created_block.hash).unwrap().unwrap().number, 1);
+
+		assert_eq!(client.info().finalized_hash, client.info().genesis_hash);
+		// ensuring run_delayed_finalize's Future is always processed before checking finalized hash
+		// by adding 1 sec
+		Delay::new(Duration::from_secs(delay_sec + 1)).await;
+		assert_eq!(client.info().finalized_hash, created_block.hash);
+	}
+
 	#[tokio::test]
 	async fn manual_seal_and_finalization() {
 		let builder = TestClientBuilder::new();

client/consensus/manual-seal/src/rpc.rs

@@ -160,10 +160,11 @@ pub fn send_result<T: std::fmt::Debug>(
 			}
 		}
 	} else {
-		// instant seal doesn't report errors over rpc, simply log them.
+		// Sealing/Finalization with no RPC sender such as instant seal or delayed finalize doesn't
+		// report errors over rpc, simply log them.
 		match result {
-			Ok(r) => log::info!("Instant Seal success: {:?}", r),
-			Err(e) => log::error!("Instant Seal encountered an error: {}", e),
+			Ok(r) => log::info!("Consensus with no RPC sender success: {:?}", r),
+			Err(e) => log::error!("Consensus with no RPC sender encountered an error: {}", e),
 		}
 	}
 }