Crate cnidarium_component

Core trait definitions for components of an ABCI application using [cnidarium].

This crate defines two traits for use by “component crates”:

• Component, which defines the internally driven behavior of a component, triggered at the beginning and end of blocks and at the ends of epochs;
• ActionHandler, which defines the externally driven behavior of a component, triggered by actions in blockchain transactions.

Component crates should be structured as follows:

• Definitions of any transaction actions related to the component, and their corresponding plans and views;
• a crate::component module, feature-gated by the component feature, with the Component implementation and ActionHandler implementations for any locally-defined actions, and any other code touching the chain state inside;
• a crate::state_key module defining the component’s state keys (which are a public API, like the rest of the chain state);
• a crate::event module defining any events emitted by the component;

The structure of the feature-gated component submodule allows reusing data structures between client and server (fullnode) code.

For instance, the penumbra_sdk_transaction crate depends on all of the component crates without the component feature, so it can assemble all of the actions for each component into a top-level transaction type. This means all async code should be confined to the component module, so that the transaction definitions don’t depend on tokio, mio, etc and can be used without problems in wasm or other non-async contexts.

On the other hand, the penumbra_sdk_app crate depends on all of the component crates with the component feature enabled, so it can assemble all of the ActionHandler implementations into a top-level ActionHandler implementation and call each component’s Component implementation at the appropriate times.

Traits

ActionHandler

Defines the interface for handling transaction actions.

Component

A component of a [cnidarium]-based application.