Flare FTSO indexer

This code implements a fast and parallelized indexer of C-chain that fetches data needed for various Flare protocols. It saves the data in a MySQL database.

Prerequisites

The indexer is implemented in Go (tested with version 1.21). A running MySQL database to save the data is needed (we provide a docker-compose.yaml file for automatic deployment of a database).

Configuration

The configuration is read from a toml file. Config file can be specified using the command line parameter --config, e.g., ./flare-ftso-indexer --config config.toml. The default config file name is config.toml. Below is the list of configuration parameters, most are self-explanatory. Note that the chain node, to which the indexer connects (parameter node_url), needs to allow many simultaneous request if the indexer is about to index big amount of data.

[indexer]
start_index = 0 # the number of the block that the indexer will start with
stop_index = 0 # the number of the block that the indexer will stop with; set 0 or skip to index indefinitely
num_parallel_req = 100 # the number of threads doing requests to the chain in parallel
batch_size = 1000 # the number of blocks that will be pushed to a database in a batch (should be divisible by num_parallel_req)
log_range = 10 # the size of the interval of blocks used to request logs in each request; suggested value is log_range = batch_size / num_parallel_req; note that a blockchain node might have an upper bound on this
new_block_check_millis = 1000 # interval for checking for new blocks

[[indexer.collect_transactions]]
contract_address = "22474d350ec2da53d717e30b96e9a2b7628ede5b" # address of the contract (can be "undefined")
func_sig = "f14fcbc8" # signature of the function on the contract  (can be "undefined")
status=true # boolean indicating if it should be checked if the transaction succeeded
collect_events=true # boolean indicating if the logs of the emitted events should be saved to the database

[[indexer.collect_transactions]]
contract_address = "22474d350ec2da53d717e30b96e9a2b7628ede5b"
func_sig = "4369af80"
status = true
collect_events = true

[[indexer.collect_logs]]
contract_address = "b682deef4f8e298d86bfc3e21f50c675151fb974" # address of the contract calling the log (can be "undefined")
topic = "undefined" # topic0 of the log  (can be "undefined")

[db]
host = "localhost"
port = 3306
database = "flare_ftso_indexer"
username = "root"
password = "root"
log_queries = false
drop_table_at_start = true
history_drop = 604800 # Enable deleting the transactions and logs in DB that are older (timestamp of the block) than history_drop (in seconds); set 0 or skip to turn off

[logger]
level = "INFO"
file = "./logger/logs/flare-ftso-indexer.log"
console = true

[chain]
node_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8545/"  # or NODE_URL environment variable
# api_key = ...  or NODE_API_KEY environment variable
# chain_type = 1 # default Avalanche based chain=1, Ethereum based chain=2

[timeout]
backoff_max_elapsed_time_seconds = 300 # optional, defaults to 300s = 5 minutes. Affects how long the indexer will keep retrying in case of a complete outage of the node provider. Set to 0 to retry indefinitely.
timeout_milis = 1000  # optional, defaults to 1000ms = 1s. Try increasing if you see timeout errors often.

Database

In database/docker we provide a simple database. Navigate to the folder and run

docker-compose up

Running FTSO indexer

Simply run

go run main.go --config config.toml

or build and run the binaries with

go build
./flare-ftso-indexer --config config.toml

Tests

There is an integration test which checks the historical indexing against known transactions and logs on Coston2. To run this test you will need a MySQL server and a Coston2 node - ideally one that is not rate-limited. The test is configured via environment variables, see .env.example for an example configuration. With the appropriate environment vars set the test can be run with:

$ go test ./main_test.go

A unit test using a mocked chain node is also provided at indexer/indexer_test.go. This test is also configured via environment variables, with an example at indexer/.env.example, and may be run with:

go test ./indexer

Benchmarks

File benchmarks/songbird_test.go implements a benchmark test that indexes the (not-yet-scaled) FTSO protocol on the songbird network. It requests for 10000 blocks and analyses them (see config.songbird.toml for the other parameters). Run the following (where 10x can be replaced by any other number of repeats)

go test -benchmem -run=^$ -benchtime 10x -bench ^BenchmarkBlockRequests$ flare-ftso-indexer/benchmarks