Dispatch Developers Update — Pushing the Protocol
New ExecuteRead Transaction Type, Upgraded TX Synchronization, & Upgraded SDKs too
Well it’s been a while since we pushed out a recap of what we’ve been up to, so here’s a rundown of some of the recent developments we’ve made on the protocol.
The ExecuteRead Transaction Type
You can now read the state of a smart-contract instantly, for free, and without the need of an asynchronous callback thanks to the new ExecuteRead (Transaction Type 4) functionality!
Where previously we had all smart-contract reads recorded on the ledger, we now let you query any active Bookkeeper for a smart-contract’s current state without needing to gossip first.
We also went ahead and updated the Java-SDK and dispatch-js SDKs to support the new functionality as well.
Upgraded TX Synchronizations
As part of our roadmap to turn over full control of the network to the community, we needed an efficient way to transfer the whole ledger to nodes that wanted to participate as Bookkeepers, so we built it!
Delegated Bookkeepers who know nothing of the Dispatch ledger can now download all of the network’s transactions and execute them to re-create the state of the ledger.
We’re committed to the decentralization of the protocol, and this is a major jump in that direction.
Scanner ExecuteWrite with Parameters
The network scanner now supports the ability to ExecuteWrite to smart-contracts with parameters! This makes using smart-contracts on Dispatch with the GUI much, much easier.
Odds and Ends
We’ve also been cleaning up some little things here an there along the way such as:
- Fixed a bug in the rate-limiting functionality of the system
- 404 page is fancy
- Updated docs for both disgo and dev-tools repositories
Too long; didn’t read
- Added Transaction Type 4: ExecuteRead
- Updated Java-SDK and dispatch-js to support the new Transaction Type
- Upgraded TX synchronization and state re-execution (paves the way for Bookkeepers)
- Fixed a bug in the rate-limiting functionality of the system
- Scanner now supports executing Transactions with Parameters
- 404 page is fancy
- Updated docs for both disgo and dev-tools repositories
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