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bitcoin/src/node
Ava Chow 8a8edc8d88 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#34741: refactor: Return std::optional from GetNameProxy/GetProxy
fa73ed467c refactor: Fix redundant conversion to std::string and then to std::string_view [performance-string-view-conversions] (MarcoFalke)
fa270fdacf refactor: Return std::optional from GetProxy (MarcoFalke)
faeac1a931 refactor: Return std::optional from GetNameProxy (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  Currently the getters have a mutable reference as inout param and return a bool to indicate success. This is confusing, because the success bool is redundant with the `IsValid()` state on the proxy object.

  So in theory, the functions could reset the mutable proxy object to an invalid state and return `void`.

  However, this would also be confusing, because devs can forget to check `IsValid()`.

  Fix all issues by using `std::optional<Proxy>`, where devs no longer have to check `IsValid()` manually, or a separate bool. Note that new code in the repo is already using `std::optional<Proxy>`, see `git grep 'std::optional<Proxy>' bitcoin-core/master`. Also, `std::optional<Proxy>` will enforce checking at compile time, whereas calling `Proxy::IsValid` is not enforced.

ACKs for top commit:
  achow101:
    ACK fa73ed467c
  sedited:
    ACK fa73ed467c
  ViniciusCestarii:
    ACK fa73ed467c
  frankomosh:
    Code Review ACK fa73ed467c. Good refactor, correctly replaces the bool + mutable reference output parameter pattern with `std::optional<Proxy>` across `GetProxy` and `GetNameProxy`. Semantics are preserved.

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src/node/

The src/node/ directory contains code that needs to access node state (state in CChain, CBlockIndex, CCoinsView, CTxMemPool, and similar classes).

Code in src/node/ is meant to be segregated from code in src/wallet/ and src/qt/, to ensure wallet and GUI code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI code to be maintained in separate source repositories.

As a rule of thumb, code in one of the src/node/, src/wallet/, or src/qt/ directories should avoid calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly through the more limited src/interfaces/ classes.

This directory is at the moment sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like src/validation.cpp and src/txmempool.cpp might be moved there.