integration

TickInfo - Basic Network Info / Blockheight

To get the current Blockheight, you can use the REQUEST_CURRENT_TICK_INFO request.

To query the Tick Info, send a RequestResponseHeader Packet with the type set to 27.

Request Header

• Size: 8
• Type: 27
• DejaVu: any Random int

Request Payload

• empty

Response Header

RESPOND_CURRENT_TICK_INFO

Response Payload

you wil get the following response:

typedef struct
{
    unsigned short tickDuration;
    unsigned short epoch;
    unsigned int tick;
    unsigned short numberOfAlignedVotes;
    unsigned short numberOfMisalignedVotes;
} CurrentTickInfo;

All information in the response is related to the nodes status:

• tickDuration: How long the current Node stays in that tick
• epoch: the epoch
• tick: the tick; current Blockheight this node stays
• numberOfAlignedVotes: the votes from Computors the peer sees which are the same as he already have
• numberOfMisalignedVotes: the votes from Computors the peer sees which are different from it’s own view

[!NOTE] It makes sense to keep track of the Tick and save it in your application. If you get a response from a node with a lower Tick, ignore that packet. The peer seems to be not up to date.