59aa54f731i2p: log "SAM session" instead of "session" (Vasil Dimov)d7ec30b648doc: add release notes about the I2P transient addresses (Vasil Dimov)47c0d02f12doc: document I2P transient addresses usage in doc/i2p.md (Vasil Dimov)3914e472f5test: add a test that -i2pacceptincoming=0 creates a transient session (Vasil Dimov)ae1e97ce86net: use transient I2P session for outbound if -i2pacceptincoming=0 (Vasil Dimov)a1580a04f5net: store an optional I2P session in CNode (Vasil Dimov)2b781ad66ei2p: add support for creating transient sessions (Vasil Dimov) Pull request description: Add support for generating a transient, one-time I2P address for ourselves when making I2P outbound connection and discard it once the connection is closed. Background --- In I2P connections, the host that receives the connection knows the I2P address of the connection initiator. This is unlike the Tor network where the recipient does not know who is connecting to them, not even the initiator's Tor address. Persistent vs transient I2P addresses --- Even if an I2P node is not accepting incoming connections, they are known to other nodes by their outgoing I2P address. This creates an opportunity to white-list given nodes or treat them differently based on their I2P address. However, this also creates an opportunity to fingerprint or analyze a given node because it always uses the same I2P address when it connects to other nodes. If this is undesirable, then a node operator can use the newly introduced `-i2ptransientout` to generate a transient (disposable), one-time I2P address for each new outgoing connection. That address is never going to be reused again, not even if reconnecting to the same peer later. ACKs for top commit: mzumsande: ACK59aa54f731(verified via range-diff that just a typo / `unique_ptr` initialisation were fixed) achow101: re-ACK59aa54f731jonatack: utACK59aa54f731reviewed range diff, rebased to master, debug build + relevant tests + review at each commit Tree-SHA512: 2be9b9dd7502b2d44a75e095aaece61700766bff9af0a2846c29ca4e152b0a92bdfa30f61e8e32b6edb1225f74f1a78d19b7bf069f00b8f8173e69705414a93e
Unit tests
The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since Bitcoin Core already uses Boost, it makes sense to simply use this framework rather than require developers to configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).
The build system is set up to compile an executable called test_bitcoin
that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file for the test library is found in
util/setup_common.cpp.
Compiling/running unit tests
Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in ./configure
and tests weren't explicitly disabled.
After configuring, they can be run with make check.
To run the unit tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile
after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you
modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed
to run the unit tests.
To add more unit tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing
.cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that
implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.
To run the GUI unit tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt
To add more GUI unit tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and
the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.
Running individual tests
test_bitcoin accepts the command line arguments from the boost framework.
For example, to run just the getarg_tests suite of tests:
test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests
log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a
test case is entered, for example. test_bitcoin also accepts the command
line arguments accepted by bitcoind. Use -- to separate both types of
arguments:
test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- -printtoconsole=1
The -printtoconsole=1 after the two dashes redirects the debug log, which
would normally go to a file in the test datadir
(BasicTestingSetup::m_path_root), to the standard terminal output.
... or to run just the doubledash test:
test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/doubledash
Run test_bitcoin --help for the full list.
Adding test cases
To add a new unit test file to our test suite you need
to add the file to src/Makefile.test.include. The pattern is to create
one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create
unit tests. The file naming convention is <source_filename>_tests.cpp
and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite
called <source_filename>_tests. For an example of this pattern,
see uint256_tests.cpp.
Logging and debugging in unit tests
make check will write to a log file foo_tests.cpp.log and display this file
on failure. For running individual tests verbosely, refer to the section
above.
To write to logs from unit tests you need to use specific message methods
provided by Boost. The simplest is BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE.
For debugging you can launch the test_bitcoin executable with gdb or lldb and
start debugging, just like you would with any other program:
gdb src/test/test_bitcoin
Segmentation faults
If you hit a segmentation fault during a test run, you can diagnose where the fault
is happening by running gdb ./src/test/test_bitcoin and then using the bt command
within gdb.
Another tool that can be used to resolve segmentation faults is valgrind.
If for whatever reason you want to produce a core dump file for this fault, you can do
that as well. By default, the boost test runner will intercept system errors and not
produce a core file. To bypass this, add --catch_system_errors=no to the
test_bitcoin arguments and ensure that your ulimits are set properly (e.g. ulimit -c unlimited).
Running the tests and hitting a segmentation fault should now produce a file called core
(on Linux platforms, the file name will likely depend on the contents of
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern).
You can then explore the core dump using
gdb src/test/test_bitcoin core
(gbd) bt # produce a backtrace for where a segfault occurred