超级账本Hyperledger fabric的区块结构

> 之前学习比特币和以太坊，必先学习其区块结构，当时在银行做Hyperledger相关项目时，我却对结构很忽略，只关心智能合约，居然也能初步掌握并开始项目相关的开发。这说明超级账本的区块属性其实比较弱，重要的是智能合约的属性。性能也不错。从这个意义上讲Hyperledger用来做存证是大材小用的。

问题1：交易是怎么存入区块的？

Transactions are collected into blocks/batches on the ordering service first. Blocks are cut either when the BatchSize is met, or when BatchTimeout elapses (provided a non-empty block).

也就是说，满足这2个条件，区块生成了：

• 交易数量够了

• 超时时间到了

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所以Hyperledger的区块生成不是定时的，高峰时间，区块生成速度明显加快

• configtx.yaml in the common/configtx/tool/ directory for more info on the block-cutting criteria.

• The Block type definition in protos/common/common.proto

和以太坊一样，hyperledger的区别，也有区块号、指向前一个区块的指针、指向数据的指针，因为没有挖矿，头部简洁了很多

// This is finalized block structure to be shared among the orderer and peer

// Note that the BlockHeader chains to the previous BlockHeader, and the BlockData hash is embedded

// in the BlockHeader. This makes it natural and obvious that the Data is included in the hash, but

// the Metadata is not.

message Block {

BlockHeader header = 1;

BlockData data = 2;

BlockMetadata metadata = 3;

}

// BlockHeader is the element of the block which forms the block chain

// The block header is hashed using the configured chain hashing algorithm

// over the ASN.1 encoding of the BlockHeader

message BlockHeader {

**uint64 number = 1;** // The position in the blockchain

**bytes previous_hash = 2;** // The hash of the previous block header

**bytes data_hash = 3;** // The hash of the BlockData, by MerkleTree

}

message BlockData {

repeated bytes data = 1;

}

message BlockMetadata {

repeated bytes metadata = 1;

}

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问题2：怎么存入LevelDB

These blocks are stored locally to disk on every ordering service node along with a LevelDB to index these blocks by number – see orderer/ledger/file

// Append a new block to the ledger

func (fl *fileLedger) Append(block *cb.Block) error {

    err := fl.blockStore.AddBlock(block)

    if err == nil {

        close(fl.signal)

        fl.signal = make(chan struct{})

    }

    return err

}