neo-go/docs/notifications.md

# Notification subsystem

Original motivation, requirements and general solution strategy are described
in the [issue #895](https://github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/issues/895).

This extension allows a websocket client to subscribe to various events and
receive them as JSON-RPC notifications from the server.

## Events
Currently supported events:
 * new block added

   Contents: block. Filters: primary ID, since block index.
 * new transaction in the block

   Contents: transaction. Filters: sender and signer.
 * notification generated during execution

   Contents: container hash, contract hash, notification name, stack item. Filters: contract hash, notification name.
 * transaction executed

   Contents: application execution result. Filters: VM state.
 * new/removed P2P notary request (if `P2PSigExtensions` are enabled)

   Contents: P2P notary request. Filters: request sender and main tx signer.

Filters use conjunctional logic.

## Ordering and persistence guarantees
 * new block is only announced after its processing is complete and the chain
   is updated to the new height
 * no disk-level persistence guarantees are given
 * new in-block transaction is announced after block processing, but before
   announcing the block itself
 * transaction notifications are only announced for successful transactions
 * all announcements are being done in the same order they happen on the chain
   First, transaction execution is announced. It is then followed by notifications
   generated during this execution. Next, follows the transaction announcement.
   Transaction announcements are ordered the same way they're in the block.
 * unsubscription may not cancel pending, but not yet sent events

## Subscription management

To receive events, clients need to subscribe to them first via `subscribe`
method. Upon successful subscription, clients receive subscription ID for
subsequent management of this subscription. Subscription is only valid for
connection lifetime, no long-term client identification is being made.

Errors are not described down below, but they can be returned as standard
JSON-RPC errors (most often caused by invalid parameters).

### `subscribe` method

Parameters: event stream name, stream-specific filter rules hash (can be
omitted if empty).

Recognized stream names:
 * `block_added`
   Filter: `primary` as an integer with primary (speaker) node index from
   ConsensusData and/or `since` as an integer with block index starting from
   which new block notifications will be received.
 * `transaction_added`
   Filter: `sender` field containing a string with hex-encoded Uint160 (LE
   representation) for transaction's `Sender` and/or `signer` in the same
   format for one of transaction's `Signers`.
 * `notification_from_execution`
   Filter: `contract` field containing a string with hex-encoded Uint160 (LE
   representation) and/or `name` field containing a string with execution 
   notification name.
 * `transaction_executed`
   Filter: `state` field containing `HALT` or `FAULT` string for successful
   and failed executions respectively.
 * `notary_request_event`
   Filter: `sender` field containing a string with hex-encoded Uint160 (LE
   representation) for notary request's `Sender` and/or `signer` in the same
   format for one of main transaction's `Signers`.

Response: returns subscription ID (string) as a result. This ID can be used to
cancel this subscription and has no meaning other than that.

Example request (subscribe to notifications from contract
0x6293a440ed80a427038e175a507d3def1e04fb67 generated when executing
transactions):

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "subscribe",
  "params": ["notification_from_execution", {"contract": "6293a440ed80a427038e175a507d3def1e04fb67"}],
  "id": 1
}

```

Example response:

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "55aaff00"
}
```

### `unsubscribe` method

Parameters: subscription ID as a string.

Response: boolean true.

Example request (unsubscribe from "55aaff00"):

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "unsubscribe",
  "params": ["55aaff00"],
  "id": 1
}
```

Example response:

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": true
}
```

## Events

Events are sent as JSON-RPC notifications from the server with `method` field
being used for notification names. Notification names are identical to stream
names described for `subscribe` method with one important addition for
`event_missed`, which can be sent for any subscription to signify that some
events have not been delivered (usually when a client is unable to keep up with
the event flow).

Verbose responses for various structures like blocks and transactions are used
to simplify working with notifications on the client side. Returned structures
mostly follow the one used by standard Neo RPC calls but may have some minor
differences.

If a server-side event matches several subscriptions from one client, it's
only sent once.

### `block_added` notification

The first parameter (`params` section) contains a block converted to a JSON
structure, which is similar to a verbose `getblock` response but with the
following differences:
 * it doesn't have `size` field (you can calculate it client-side)
 * it doesn't have `nextblockhash` field (it's supposed to be the latest one
    anyway)
 * it doesn't have `confirmations` field (see previous)

No other parameters are sent.

Example:
```
{
   "params" : [
      {
         "index" : 207,
         "time" : 1590006200,
         "nextconsensus" : "AXSvJVzydxXuL9da4GVwK25zdesCrVKkHL",
         "consensusdata" : {
            "primary" : 0,
            "nonce" : "0000000000000457"
         },
         "previousblockhash" : "0x04f7580b111ec75f0ce68d3a9fd70a0544b4521b4a98541694d8575c548b759e",
         "witnesses" : [
            {
               "invocation" : "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",
               "verification" : "130c2102103a7f7dd016558597f7960d27c516a4394fd968b9e65155eb4b013e4040406e0c2102a7bc55fe8684e0119768d104ba30795bdcc86619e864add26156723ed185cd620c2102b3622bf4017bdfe317c58aed5f4c753f206b7db896046fa7d774bbc4bf7f8dc20c2103d90c07df63e690ce77912e10ab51acc944b66860237b608c4f8f8309e71ee699140b413073b3bb"
            }
         ],
         "version" : 0,
         "hash" : "0x239fea00c54c2f6812612874183b72bef4473fcdf68bf8da08d74fd5b6cab030",
         "tx" : [
            {
               "txid" : "0xf736cd91ab84062a21a09b424346b241987f6245ffe8c2b2db39d595c3c222f7",
               "witnesses" : [
                  {
                     "verification" : "0c2102b3622bf4017bdfe317c58aed5f4c753f206b7db896046fa7d774bbc4bf7f8dc20b410a906ad4",
                     "invocation" : "0c4016e7a112742409cdfaad89dcdbcb52c94c5c1a69dfe5d8b999649eaaa787e31ca496d1734d6ea606c749ad36e9a88892240ae59e0efa7f544e0692124898d512"
                  }
               ],
               "vout" : [],
               "cosigners" : [],
               "validuntilblock" : 1200,
               "nonce" : 8,
               "netfee" : "0.0030421",
               "sender" : "ALHF9wsXZVEuCGgmDA6ZNsCLtrb4A1g4yG",
               "sysfee" : "0",
               "type" : "InvocationTransaction",
               "attributes" : [],
               "version" : 1,
               "vin" : [],
               "size" : 204,
               "script" : "10c00c04696e69740c14769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b41627d5b52"
            },
            {
               "script" : "01e8030c14316e851039019d39dfc2c37d6c3fee19fd5809870c14769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b13c00c087472616e736665720c14769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b41627d5b5238",
               "size" : 277,
               "attributes" : [],
               "version" : 1,
               "vin" : [],
               "netfee" : "0.0037721",
               "sender" : "ALHF9wsXZVEuCGgmDA6ZNsCLtrb4A1g4yG",
               "sysfee" : "0",
               "type" : "InvocationTransaction",
               "nonce" : 9,
               "signers" : [
                  {
                     "scopes" : 1,
                     "account" : "0x870958fd19ee3f6c7dc3c2df399d013910856e31"
                  }
               ],
               "validuntilblock" : 1200,
               "witnesses" : [
                  {
                     "invocation" : "0c4027727296b84853c5d9e07fb8a40e885246ae25641383b16eefbe92027ecb1635b794aacf6bbfc3e828c73829b14791c483d19eb758b57638e3191393dbf2d288",
                     "verification" : "0c2102b3622bf4017bdfe317c58aed5f4c753f206b7db896046fa7d774bbc4bf7f8dc20b410a906ad4"
                  }
               ],
               "vout" : [],
               "txid" : "0xe1cd5e57e721d2a2e05fb1f08721b12057b25ab1dd7fd0f33ee1639932fdfad7"
            }
         ],
         "merkleroot" : "0xb2c7230ebee4cb83bc03afadbba413e6bca8fcdeaf9c077bea060918da0e52a1"
      }
   ],
   "jsonrpc" : "2.0",
   "method" : "block_added"
}
```

### `transaction_added` notification

The first parameter (`params` section) contains a transaction converted to
JSON, which is similar to a verbose `getrawtransaction` response, but with the
following differences:
 * block's metadata is missing (`blockhash`, `confirmations`, `blocktime`)

No other parameters are sent.

Example:
```
{
   "method" : "transaction_added",
   "params" : [
      {
         "validuntilblock" : 1200,
         "version" : 1,
         "txid" : "0xe1cd5e57e721d2a2e05fb1f08721b12057b25ab1dd7fd0f33ee1639932fdfad7",
         "witnesses" : [
            {
               "invocation" : "0c4027727296b84853c5d9e07fb8a40e885246ae25641383b16eefbe92027ecb1635b794aacf6bbfc3e828c73829b14791c483d19eb758b57638e3191393dbf2d288",
               "verification" : "0c2102b3622bf4017bdfe317c58aed5f4c753f206b7db896046fa7d774bbc4bf7f8dc20b410a906ad4"
            }
         ],
         "sysfee" : "0",
         "sender" : "ALHF9wsXZVEuCGgmDA6ZNsCLtrb4A1g4yG",
         "vout" : [],
         "netfee" : "0.0037721",
         "size" : 277,
         "attributes" : [],
         "script" : "01e8030c14316e851039019d39dfc2c37d6c3fee19fd5809870c14769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b13c00c087472616e736665720c14769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b41627d5b5238",
         "nonce" : 9,
         "vin" : [],
         "type" : "InvocationTransaction",
         "signers" : [
            {
               "account" : "0x870958fd19ee3f6c7dc3c2df399d013910856e31",
               "scopes" : 1
            }
         ]
      }
   ],
   "jsonrpc" : "2.0"
}
```

### `notification_from_execution` notification

Contains four parameters: container hash (block's or transaction's hex-encoded LE
Uint256 hash in a string), contract hash (hex-encoded LE Uint160 in a string),
notification name and stack item (encoded the same way as `state` field contents
for notifications from `getapplicationlog` response).

Example:

```
{
   "jsonrpc" : "2.0",
   "method" : "notification_from_execution",
   "params" : [
      {
         "state" : {
            "value" : [
               {
                  "value" : "636f6e74726163742063616c6c",
                  "type" : "ByteString"
               },
               {
                  "value" : "7472616e73666572",
                  "type" : "ByteString"
               },
               {
                  "value" : [
                     {
                        "value" : "769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b",
                        "type" : "ByteString"
                     },
                     {
                        "value" : "316e851039019d39dfc2c37d6c3fee19fd580987",
                        "type" : "ByteString"
                     },
                     {
                        "value" : "1000",
                        "type" : "Integer"
                     }
                  ],
                  "type" : "Array"
               }
            ],
            "type" : "Array"
         },
         "contract" : "0x1b4357bff5a01bdf2a6581247cf9ed1e24629176",
         "name" : "transfer",
         "container" : "0xe1cd5e57e721d2a2e05fb1f08721b12057b25ab1dd7fd0f33ee1639932fdfad7",
      }
   ]
}
```

### `transaction_executed` notification

It contains the same result as from `getapplicationlog` method in the first
parameter and no other parameters. The only difference from `getapplicationlog` is
that it always contains zero in the `contract` field.

Example:
```
{
   "method" : "transaction_executed",
   "params" : [
      {
         "container" : "0xe1cd5e57e721d2a2e05fb1f08721b12057b25ab1dd7fd0f33ee1639932fdfad7",
         "executions" : [
            {
               "trigger" : "Application",
               "gasconsumed" : "2.291",
               "contract" : "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
               "stack" : [],
               "notifications" : [
                  {
                     "state" : {
                        "type" : "Array",
                        "value" : [
                           {
                              "value" : "636f6e74726163742063616c6c",
                              "type" : "ByteString"
                           },
                           {
                              "type" : "ByteString",
                              "value" : "7472616e73666572"
                           },
                           {
                              "value" : [
                                 {
                                    "value" : "769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b",
                                    "type" : "ByteString"
                                 },
                                 {
                                    "type" : "ByteString",
                                    "value" : "316e851039019d39dfc2c37d6c3fee19fd580987"
                                 },
                                 {
                                    "value" : "1000",
                                    "type" : "Integer"
                                 }
                              ],
                              "type" : "Array"
                           }
                        ]
                     },
                     "contract" : "0x1b4357bff5a01bdf2a6581247cf9ed1e24629176"
                  },
                  {
                     "contract" : "0x1b4357bff5a01bdf2a6581247cf9ed1e24629176",
                     "state" : {
                        "value" : [
                           {
                              "value" : "7472616e73666572",
                              "type" : "ByteString"
                           },
                           {
                              "value" : "769162241eedf97c2481652adf1ba0f5bf57431b",
                              "type" : "ByteString"
                           },
                           {
                              "value" : "316e851039019d39dfc2c37d6c3fee19fd580987",
                              "type" : "ByteString"
                           },
                           {
                              "value" : "1000",
                              "type" : "Integer"
                           }
                        ],
                        "type" : "Array"
                     }
                  }
               ],
               "vmstate" : "HALT"
            }
         ]
      }
   ],
   "jsonrpc" : "2.0"
}
```

### `notary_request_event` notification

It contains two parameters: event type, which could be one of "added" or "removed", and
added (or removed) notary request.

Example:

```
{
   "jsonrpc" : "2.0",
   "method" : "notary_request_event",
   "params" : [
      {
         "notaryrequest" : {
            "Witness" : {
               "verification" : "DCECs2Ir9AF73+MXxYrtX0x1PyBrfbiWBG+n13S7xL9/jcJBVuezJw==",
               "invocation" : "DECWLkFhNqBMCewLxjAWiXXA1YE/GmX6EWmIRM17F9lwwpXyWtzp+hkxvJNWHpDlslDvpXizGiB/YBd05kadXlSv"
            },
            "fallbacktx" : {
               "validuntilblock" : 115,
               "attributes" : [
                  {
                     "type" : "NotValidBefore",
                     "height" : 65
                  },
                  {
                     "type" : "Conflicts",
                     "hash" : "0x03c564ed28ba3d50beb1a52dcb751b929e1d747281566bd510363470be186bc0"
                  },
                  {
                     "type" : "NotaryAssisted",
                     "nkeys" : 0
                  }
               ],
               "sender" : "NRNp25VPHahL3umVxBcMLuEENGZR9cHxtc",
               "size" : 291,
               "netfee" : "200000000",
               "witnesses" : [
                  {
                     "invocation" : "DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA",
                     "verification" : ""
                  },
                  {
                     "invocation" : "DEBnVePpwnsM54K72RmxZR8cWTGxQveJ1cAdd3/zQUh6KVDnj+G5F8AI6gYlbnEK5qJwP40WfGWlmy3A8mYHGVLm",
                     "verification" : "DCECs2Ir9AF73+MXxYrtX0x1PyBrfbiWBG+n13S7xL9/jcJBVuezJw=="
                  }
               ],
               "nonce" : 0,
               "sysfee" : "0",
               "signers" : [
                  {
                     "scopes" : "None",
                     "account" : "0xc1e14f19c3e60d0b9244d06dd7ba9b113135ec3b"
                  },
                  {
                     "account" : "0xb248508f4ef7088e10c48f14d04be3272ca29eee",
                     "scopes" : "None"
                  }
               ],
               "version" : 0,
               "hash" : "0x5eb5f89d04648d43ba7563130e8bfd1710392ab97cba8e35857aed4206db3643",
               "script" : "QA=="
            },
            "maintx" : {
               "sender" : "Nhfg3TbpwogLvDGVvAvqyThbsHgoSUKwtn",
               "attributes" : [
                  {
                     "nkeys" : 1,
                     "type" : "NotaryAssisted"
                  }
               ],
               "validuntilblock" : 115,
               "witnesses" : [
                  {
                     "invocation" : "AQQH",
                     "verification" : "AwYJ"
                  }
               ],
               "netfee" : "0",
               "size" : 62,
               "version" : 0,
               "signers" : [
                  {
                     "scopes" : "None",
                     "account" : "0xb248508f4ef7088e10c48f14d04be3272ca29eee"
                  }
               ],
               "sysfee" : "0",
               "nonce" : 1,
               "script" : "QA==",
               "hash" : "0x03c564ed28ba3d50beb1a52dcb751b929e1d747281566bd510363470be186bc0"
            }
         },
         "type" : "added"
      }
   ]
}
```

### `event_missed` notification

Never has any parameters. Example:

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "event_missed",
  "params": []
}
```