// Copyright © 2021 Ettore Di Giacinto // // This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along // with this program; if not, see . package blockchain import ( "crypto/sha256" "encoding/hex" "fmt" "time" ) type DataString string // Block represents each 'item' in the blockchain type Block struct { Index int Timestamp string Storage map[string]map[string]Data Hash string PrevHash string } // Blockchain is a series of validated Blocks type Blockchain []Block // make sure block is valid by checking index, and comparing the hash of the previous block func (newBlock Block) IsValid(oldBlock Block) bool { if oldBlock.Index+1 != newBlock.Index { return false } if oldBlock.Hash != newBlock.PrevHash { return false } if newBlock.Checksum() != newBlock.Hash { return false } return true } // Checksum does SHA256 hashing of the block func (b Block) Checksum() string { record := fmt.Sprint(b.Index, b.Timestamp, b.Storage, b.PrevHash) h := sha256.New() h.Write([]byte(record)) hashed := h.Sum(nil) return hex.EncodeToString(hashed) } // create a new block using previous block's hash func (oldBlock Block) NewBlock(s map[string]map[string]Data) Block { var newBlock Block t := time.Now().UTC() newBlock.Index = oldBlock.Index + 1 newBlock.Timestamp = t.String() newBlock.Storage = s newBlock.PrevHash = oldBlock.Hash newBlock.Hash = newBlock.Checksum() return newBlock }