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Imagine I executed ReadBlockFromDisk and now I have valid instance of CBlock.
How do I read height of this block?
CBlock block = ...;
CBlockIndex index(block);
assert (index.nHeight != 0); // fails, nHeight is default initialized
How to get block height, if I have only block header?
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It looks like this function from validation.h does the job:
CBlockIndex* LookupBlockIndex(const uint256& hash)
The answer I posted is the answer to your next question. "How do I load the index so this function can work?" – Jose Fonseca – 2019-11-01T02:40:09.017
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You'd need to get a full node started up by calling AppInitMain in init.cpp in order to get the index subsystem running.
Otherwise it can't query the index database to get the block height.
The node subsystem must be warmed up and running in order to run queries linked from C++ directly. You'd also need to synchronize the calls and respect locks - not easy.
Running AppInitMain is basically the same as running bitcoind, so you're probably better off calling into the RPC interface from C++ and passing the getblock <hash> 1 command to it. The process the resulting JSON.
getblock <hash> 1 returns something like this
{
"hash": "00000000839a8e6886ab5951d76f411475428afc90947ee320161bbf18eb6048",
"confirmations": 600340,
"strippedsize": 215,
"size": 215,
"weight": 860,
"height": 1,
"version": 1,
"versionHex": "00000001",
"merkleroot": "0e3e2357e806b6cdb1f70b54c3a3a17b6714ee1f0e68bebb44a74b1efd512098",
"tx": [
"0e3e2357e806b6cdb1f70b54c3a3a17b6714ee1f0e68bebb44a74b1efd512098"
],
"time": 1231469665,
"mediantime": 1231469665,
"nonce": 2573394689,
"bits": "1d00ffff",
"difficulty": 1,
"chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200020002",
"nTx": 1,
"previousblockhash": "000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f",
"nextblockhash": "000000006a625f06636b8bb6ac7b960a8d03705d1ace08b1a19da3fdcc99ddbd"
}
Which includes the height and other data.
I wanted to get a name of C++ function to retrieve it, but anyway, thanks. – warchantua – 2019-10-31T18:47:54.593
I think for have the height of block you can analysis of the bitcoin blockchain – vincenzopalazzo – 2019-10-31T18:55:36.270