We would like the codebase to be optimized for readability not ease of
development, as such code that is write-once-read-many should not use
macros.
Currently we use the `impl_std_error` macro to implement
`std::error::Error` for struct error types. This makes the code harder
to read at a glance because one has to think what the macro does.
Remove the `impl_std_error` macro and write the code explicitly.
One encodes to a writer and decodes from a reader, most of the time in
the consensus `Encodable`/`Decodable` traits we use generic `R`/`W` and
variable `r`/`w` but there are other places that use other characters.
While touching these lines note also that there are a bunch of unneeded
`mut`s, I'm not sure why since usually between the compiler and the
linter `mut` is handled correctly.
Make implementations of `Encodable` and `Decodable` uniform by:
- Use R/W and r/w for trait and variable name
- Remove unneeded mut
Throughout the codebase we cast values to `u64` when constructing a
`VarInt`. We can make the code marginally cleaner by adding `From<T>`
impls for all unsigned integer types less than or equal to 64 bits.
Also allows us to (possibly unnecessarily) comment the cast in a single
place.
The `ServiceFlags` type is used by the p2p layer. It can live in the
`mod.rs` file of the `p2p` module. Done in preparation for removing the
`p2p::constants` module.
This is a straight code move, the `ServiceFlags` replaces the
current re-export.
The `PROTOCOL_VERSION` const is a p2p layer constant. It can live in the
`mod.rs` file of the `p2p` module.
This is a straight code move, the `PROTOCOL_VERSION` replaces the
current re-export.
The `network` module deals with data types and logic related to
internetworking bitcoind nodes, this is commonly referred to as the p2p
layer.
Rename the `network` module to `p2p` and fix all the paths.
Tobin C. Harding