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W. J. van der Laan 7b45c5e875 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#20516: Well-defined CAddress disk serialization, and addrv2 anchors.dat
f8866e8c32 Add roundtrip fuzz tests for CAddress serialization (Pieter Wuille)
e2f0548b52 Use addrv2 serialization in anchors.dat (Pieter Wuille)
8cd8f37dfe Introduce well-defined CAddress disk serialization (Pieter Wuille)

Pull request description:

  Alternative to #20509.

  This makes the `CAddress` disk serialization format well defined, and uses it to enable addrv2 support in anchors.dat (in a way that's compatible with older software). The new format is:
  - The first 4 bytes store a format version number. Its low 19 bits are ignored (as those historically stored the `CLIENT_VERSION`), but its high 13 bits specify the actual serialization:
    - 0x00000000: LE64 encoding for `nServices`, V1 encoding for `CService` (like pre-BIP155 network serialization).
    - 0x20000000: CompactSize encoding for `nServices`, V2 encoding for `CService` (like BIP155 network serialization).
    - Any other value triggers an unsupported format error on deserialization, and can be used for future format changes.
  - The `ADDRV2_FORMAT` flag in the stream's version does not determine the actual serialization format; it only sets whether or not V2 encoding is permitted.

ACKs for top commit:
  achow101:
    ACK f8866e8c32
  laanwj:
    Code review ACK f8866e8c32
  vasild:
    ACK f8866e8c32
  jonatack:
    ACK f8866e8c32 tested rebased to master and built/run/restarted with DEBUG_ADDRMAN, peers.dat and anchors ser/deser seems fine
  hebasto:
    ACK f8866e8c32, tested on Linux Mint 20.1 (x86_64).

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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 has some built-in command-line arguments; for example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:

test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- DEBUG_LOG_OUT

log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a test case is entered, for example. The DEBUG_LOG_OUT 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 gdbor lldb and start debugging, just like you would with any other program:

gdb src/test/test_bitcoin