MarcoFalke f63fc53c2a
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#21767: [Bundle 6/n] Prune g_chainman usage in auxiliary modules
7a799c9c2b8652e780d1fd5e1bf7d05b026c1c1a index: refactor-only: Reuse CChain ref (Carl Dong)
db33cde80fff749c6adff9e91fca5f27f4bb6278 index: Add chainstate member to BaseIndex (Carl Dong)
f4a47a1febfa35ab077f2a841fe31a8cd9618250 bench: Use existing chainman in AssembleBlock (Carl Dong)
91226eb91769aad5a63bc671595e1353a2b2247a bench: Use existing NodeContext in DuplicateInputs (Carl Dong)
e6b4aa6eb53dc555ecab2922af35e7a2572faf4f miner: Pass in chainman to RegenerateCommitments (Carl Dong)
9ecade14252ad1972f668d2d2e4ef44fdfcb944a rest: Add GetChainman function and use it (Carl Dong)
fc1c282845f6b8436d1ea4c68eb3511034c29bea rpc/blockchain: Use existing blockman in gettxoutsetinfo (Carl Dong)

Pull request description:

  Overall PR: #20158 (tree-wide: De-globalize ChainstateManager)

  The first 2 commits are fixups addressing review for the last bundle: #21391

  NEW note:
  1. I have opened #21766 which keeps track of potential improvements where the flaws already existed before the de-globalization work, please post on that issue about these improvements, thanks!

  Note to reviewers:
  1. This bundle may _apparently_ introduce usage of `g_chainman` or `::Chain(state|)Active()` globals, but these are resolved later on in the overall PR. [Commits of overall PR](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20158/commits)
  2. There may be seemingly obvious local references to `ChainstateManager` or other validation objects which are not being used in callers of the current function in question, this is done intentionally to **_keep each commit centered around one function/method_** to ease review and to make the overall change systematic. We don't assume anything about our callers. Rest assured that once we are considering that particular caller in later commits, we will use the obvious local references. [Commits of overall PR](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20158/commits)
  3. When changing a function/method that has many callers (e.g. `LookupBlockIndex` with 55 callers), it is sometimes easier (and less error-prone) to use a scripted-diff. When doing so, there will be 3 commits in sequence so that every commit compiles like so:
  1. Add `new_function`, make `old_function` a wrapper of `new_function`, divert all calls to `old_function` to `new_function` **in the local module only**
  2. Scripted-diff to divert all calls to `old_function` to `new_function` **in the rest of the codebase**
  3. Remove `old_function`

ACKs for top commit:
  jarolrod:
    ACK  7a799c9
  ariard:
    Code Review ACK 7a799c9
  fjahr:
    re-ACK 7a799c9c2b8652e780d1fd5e1bf7d05b026c1c1a
  MarcoFalke:
    review ACK 7a799c9c2b8652e780d1fd5e1bf7d05b026c1c1a 🌠
  ryanofsky:
    Code review ACK 7a799c9c2b8652e780d1fd5e1bf7d05b026c1c1a. Basically no change since last review except fixed rebase conflicts and a new comment about REST Ensure()
  jamesob:
    conditional ACK 7a799c9c2b8652e780d1fd5e1bf7d05b026c1c1a ([`jamesob/ackr/21767.1.dongcarl.bundle_6_n_prune_g_chai`](https://github.com/jamesob/bitcoin/tree/ackr/21767.1.dongcarl.bundle_6_n_prune_g_chai))

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Unit tests

The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since Bitcoin Core already uses Boost, it makes sense to simply use this framework rather than require developers to configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).

The build system is set up to compile an executable called test_bitcoin that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file for the test library is found in util/setup_common.cpp.

Compiling/running unit tests

Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in ./configure and tests weren't explicitly disabled.

After configuring, they can be run with make check.

To run the unit tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed to run the unit tests.

To add more unit tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing .cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.

To run the GUI unit tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt

To add more GUI unit tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.

Running individual tests

test_bitcoin has some built-in command-line arguments; for example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:

test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- DEBUG_LOG_OUT

log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a test case is entered, for example. The DEBUG_LOG_OUT after the two dashes redirects the debug log, which would normally go to a file in the test datadir (BasicTestingSetup::m_path_root), to the standard terminal output.

... or to run just the doubledash test:

test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/doubledash

Run test_bitcoin --help for the full list.

Adding test cases

To add a new unit test file to our test suite you need to add the file to src/Makefile.test.include. The pattern is to create one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create unit tests. The file naming convention is <source_filename>_tests.cpp and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite called <source_filename>_tests. For an example of this pattern, see uint256_tests.cpp.

Logging and debugging in unit tests

make check will write to a log file foo_tests.cpp.log and display this file on failure. For running individual tests verbosely, refer to the section above.

To write to logs from unit tests you need to use specific message methods provided by Boost. The simplest is BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE.

For debugging you can launch the test_bitcoin executable with gdbor lldb and start debugging, just like you would with any other program:

gdb src/test/test_bitcoin