Node.js Stratum Server / Client / RPC Daemon
Exposes a server to enable Stratum mining protocol (server and client) usage on Node.js and subscribe for events using EventEmitter, and accept stratum-notify
from *coind
daemons
This is not a ready-to-use miner pool, you may use this server to implement your favorite altcoins, all the pool logic is up to you (shares, passwords, sessions, etc).
Highlights
- Defer and promise based code instead of callbacks (avoid callback hell)
- Simple but powerful API for managing both server and client
- Build-in support for spawn coins daemons (
bitcoind
,litecoind
, etc) process and accept RPC calls - Easy for you to add your own procedures do the RPC server (using
expose
) - No need to worry about
.conf
files for the daemons, everything is passed through command line the best way possible (but you may override arguments) - Optimized code reuse with class methods and dependency injection
- All classes based on
EventEmitter
by default (through theBase
class) - The client part make it easy, along with an RPC server, to setup your own farming pool for coins
- You can create a proxy from it using the
Client
interface, mix up Stratum with your own RPC definition and commands - It's up to you to choose the logging module (like
winston
)
Install
npm install stratum
Notice that you may install this globally using -g
, stratum-notify
will be available system wide
Stratum notify
if you want to call it manually for testing purposes
node node_modules/.bin/stratum-notify --host localhost --port 1337 --password willbebase64encoded --type block --data "jsondata"
This command is called automatically if you set the coind
options, they are forked when the server is started.
Usage
var Server = require('stratum').Server;
// these settings can be changed using Server.defaults as well, for every new server up
var server = Server.create({
/**
* RPC to listen interface for this server
*/
rpc : {
/**
* Bind to address
*
* @type {String}
*/
host: 'localhost',
/**
* RPC port
*
* @type {Number}
*/
port: 1337,
/**
* RPC password, this needs to be a SHA256 hash, defaults to 'password'
* To create a hash out of your password, launch node.js and write
*
* require('crypto').createHash('sha256').update('password').digest('hex');
*
* @type {String}
*/
password: '5e884898da28047151d0e56f8dc6292773603d0d6aabbdd62a11ef721d1542d8',
/**
* Mode to listen. By default listen only on TCP, but you may use 'http' or 'both' (deal
* with HTTP and TCP at same time)
*/
mode: 'tcp'
},
/**
* The server settings itself
*/
settings: {
/**
* Address to set the X-Stratum header if someone connects using HTTP
* @type {String}
*/
hostname: 'localhost',
/**
* Max server lag before considering the server "too busy" and drop new connections
* @type {Number}
*/
toobusy : 70,
/**
* Bind to address, use 0.0.0.0 for external access
* @type {string}
*/
host : 'localhost',
/**
* Port for the stratum TCP server to listen on
* @type {Number}
*/
port : 3333
}
});
server.on('mining', function(req, deferred){
switch (req.method){
case 'subscribe':
// req.params[0] -> if filled, it's the User Agent, like CGMiner/CPUMiner sends
// Just resolve the deferred, the promise will be resolved and the data sent to the connected client
deferred.resolve([subscription, extranonce1, extranonce2_size]);
break;
}
});
server.listen();
You can connect to Stratum servers as well:
var Client = require('stratum').Client;
client = Client.create();
client.connect({
host: 'localhost',
port: 3333
}).then(function(){
return ...;
}).then(function(value){
if (value){
//etc
}
});
Examples
Check the examples
folder, each part (client and server) is completely explained, and how to proceed on each possible case.
Documentation
The following documentation expects that:
var stratum = require('stratum');
This module is really modular, you may use just one part of it, without having to touch other classes. For example, you may
use the stratum.Client
and the stratum.RPCServer
without stratum.Daemon
or stratum.Server
.
You may, at any time, extend, overload or override any classes methods and instance methods (because it uses ES5Class module):
stratum.Server.implement({
myOwnClassMethodObject: {
}
});
stratum.Server.myOwnClassMethodObject;
stratum.Server.include({
niftyFunction: function(isit){
this.nifty = isit;
}
});
var server = stratum.Server.create();
server.niftyFunction(true);
server.nifty // true
WARNING: This actually changes the original class. You may create your derived own class using:
var MyNewServer = stratum.Server.define('MyNewServer', {
// Add your functions here
});
The MyNewServer
class will inherit everything from stratum.Server
, but will retain all it's functionality.
Use $super()
to call overloaded methods:
var MyNewServer = stratum.Server.define('MyNewServer', {
sendToIt: function(){
this.$super(); // call the original function sendToId
}
});
Notice that most of the functions that would return a callback (Node style), it return a deferred promise. If you are not sure about how to use promises, go read q module page
Basically, with promises, you can resolve or reject a "future" value to something. It's more or less a callback, but it's centralized on one instance, that is the deferred.
server.listen().then(
// first parameter is the "resolved" or "success"
function(){
},
// second parameter is the "rejected" or "fail",
function(){
},
// third parameter is the "progress", and it's not used anywhere in this module at the moment
function(){
}
);
Base
Available through stratum.Base
All the classes inherit from the base class, that inherits from EventEmitter3
, and got an additional method:
debug(msg)
Show debug messages for the class only if DEBUG=stratum
environment variable is set
stratum.Base.debug('oops');
Server
Available through stratum.Server
You can write your own defaults that applies to all new server instances through stratum.Server.defaults
stratum.Server.defaults.settings.toobusy = 50;
You can also include your own stratum method calls through stratum.Server.commands
object, the server will lookup them automatically and provide it in the event emitted callback.
The 'mining.' prefix is expected, so if you put 'hashes', it expects the command to be mining.hashes
stratum.Server.commands.hashes = function(id, any, params, you, want, to, pass, to, the, client){
// this function is actually the "resolved" function, that sends data back to the client
// it's reached by using deferred.resolve([...params...]); in the emitted callback
// "this" is the current socket
// "id" is the current RPC call id and is non-optional, must be always the first parameter
// you should always return something like this:
return this.stratumSend({
error: null,
result: [any, params, you, want], // your result
id: id
});
};
// the event `mining.hashes` will be fired on the callback
server.on('mining', function(req, deferred){
if (req.method === 'hashes'){
deferred.resolve([any, params, you, want, to, pass, to, the, client]);
// or reject
deferred.reject([any, params, you, want, to, pass, to, the, client]);
}
});
// mining.error event is emitted when something is wrong, mining related
server.on('mining.error', function(){
});
// the stratum.Server also holds defaults for coins daemons
console.log(stratum.Server.daemons); // a list of pre-configured daemons in stratum.Server.daemons
// You can inject them into the server later on, using stratum.Daemon
//instantiates a bitcoin stratum.Daemon and places inside the server
server.addDaemon(stratum.Server.daemons.bitcoin);
// you can instantiate using your own instance as well
server.addDaemon(stratum.Daemon.create({
'name': 'MyExampleCoin',
/*...*/
}));
RPCServer
Available through stratum.RPCServer
.
Enables you to communicate from outside the Stratum module through an JSON RPC 2.0 interface. It's optional, and you don't need to enable it, you may communicate from inside out only.
It's mainly useful to receive notifications (wallet, block and alert), like the stratum-notify
bin to receive json data from the outside, but you may extend the interface to accept any other commands that you deem necessary for your app.
It's advised to bind the RPCServer
instance to either localhost
or an internal IP range, and/or access through trusted proxies.
var rpc = stratum.RPCServer.create({
'mode': 'tcp', // can be 'tcp', 'http', 'both' (can handle TCP and HTTP/Websockets on one port)
'port': 9999,
'host': 'localhost', // bind to localhost
'password': 'a665a45920422f9d417e4867efdc4fb8a04a1f3fff1fa07e998e86f7f7a27ae3' // SHA256 hash of the password, no plain text!
});
rpc.listen(); // listens on port 9999, binding to localhost
rpc.expose('mymethod', function(args, connection, callback){
// if you want to pass an error, use the first callback parameter
callback(error);
// otherwise, pass the result through the second parameter
callback(null, result);
});
// RPC calls like {"method":"mymethod","params":[1,"2"],"id":1}, the args parameter will receive only the [1,"2"]
Client
Available through stratum.Client
The client can connect to a stratum server and send and receive commands like if it was a miner.
The main reason for this part of the module is that you can setup a stratum proxy using it, to forward raw data (or even a command line call) to a stratum server.
You may also test your pool sending arbitrary test data to see if it's responding properly.
var client = stratum.Client.create();
client.on('mining.error', function(message){
});
client.on('mining', function(req, deferred){
// this
});
client.connect(8080, 'localhost').then(function(socket){
socket.stratumSubscribe('NodeMiner');
socket.stratumAuthorize('user','pass');
socket.stratumSubmit('worker', 'job_id', 'extranonce2', 'ntime', 'nonce');
socket.stratumSend(data, true); //send a stratum command other than the previous ones
socket.send(data); // send raw data through the socket
});
Daemon
Available through stratum.Daemon
Include or change the global configuration for daemons using the stratum.Server.daemons
member. It's not set per instance, but rather globally.
The options path
, args
, notifyPath
, notify
are optional
stratum.Server.daemons['sillycoin'] = {
'path': '/usr/bin/sillycoind', // optional
'args': ['debug'], // optional
'rpcserver': { // this whole block is optional, this is the stratum server RPC (not the daemon one))
'port': 8888,
'host': 'localhost',
'password': 'rpcpassword',
'notifyPath': './node_modules/.bin/stratum-notify', // optional
'notify': ['block', 'wallet', 'alert'], // optional, will build walletnotify, blocknotify and alertnotify parameters
}
'name': 'SillyCoin',
'user': 'rpcuser',
'password': 'rpcpassword',
'port': 0xDEAD,
'host': 'localhost'
};
You can start issuing commands to the daemon BEFORE calling start()
, usually when you already have it running. start()
will attempt to spawn the process.
var daemon = stratum.Daemon.create({
'path': '/usr/bin/sillycoind',
'name': 'SillyCoin',
'user': 'rpcuser',
'password': 'rpcpassword',
'port': 0xDEAD,
'host': 'localhost',
'args': ['debug']
});
daemon.start();
daemon.call('getinfo', []).then(
// daemon returned a result
function(result){
console.log(result.balance);
},
// daemon returned an error
function(result){
console.log(result); // usually "Command timed out" or "Unauthorized access"
}
);
Utils
Node-Stratum comes with a few already used common util libraries, that can be accessed through stratum.*
, that are:
- Lo-dash through
stratum.lodash
- Filesystem through
stratum.fs
- TCP through
stratum.net
- UUID through
stratum.uuid
- Promises through
stratum.q
- JSON RPC 2.0 through
stratum.rpc
- Partial functions through
stratum.curry
Use at will.
Debugging
Export/set the environment variable DEBUG=stratum
on your command line before executing your code, that you'll be able to see everything behind the hood inside this module on the command line.
You can additionally set DEBUG=stratum,jsonrpc
to also see the RPC part in-depth (for stratum.Daemon
and stratum.RPCServer
)
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