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package org.bitcoinj.core.listeners;
import org.bitcoinj.core.BlockChain;
import org.bitcoinj.core.Sha256Hash;
import org.bitcoinj.core.StoredBlock;
import org.bitcoinj.core.Transaction;
import org.bitcoinj.core.VerificationException;
/**
* Listener interface for when we receive a new block that contains a relevant
* transaction.
*/
public interface TransactionReceivedInBlockListener {
/**
* <p>Called by the {@link BlockChain} when we receive a new block that contains a relevant transaction.</p>
*
* <p>A transaction may be received multiple times if is included into blocks in parallel chains. The blockType
* parameter describes whether the containing block is on the main/best chain or whether it's on a presently
* inactive side chain.</p>
*
* <p>The relativityOffset parameter is an arbitrary number used to establish an ordering between transactions
* within the same block. In the case where full blocks are being downloaded, it is simply the index of the
* transaction within that block. When Bloom filtering is in use, we don't find out the exact offset into a block
* that a transaction occurred at, so the relativity count is not reflective of anything in an absolute sense but
* rather exists only to order the transaction relative to the others.</p>
*/
void receiveFromBlock(Transaction tx, StoredBlock block,
BlockChain.NewBlockType blockType,
int relativityOffset) throws VerificationException;
/**
* <p>Called by the {@link BlockChain} when we receive a new {@link FilteredBlock} that contains the given
* transaction hash in its merkle tree.</p>
*
* <p>A transaction may be received multiple times if is included into blocks in parallel chains. The blockType
* parameter describes whether the containing block is on the main/best chain or whether it's on a presently
* inactive side chain.</p>
*
* <p>The relativityOffset parameter in this case is an arbitrary (meaningless) number, that is useful only when
* compared to the relativity count of another transaction received inside the same block. It is used to establish
* an ordering of transactions relative to one another.</p>
*
* <p>This method should return false if the given tx hash isn't known about, e.g. because the the transaction was
* a Bloom false positive. If it was known about and stored, it should return true. The caller may need to know
* this to calculate the effective FP rate.</p>
*
* @return whether the transaction is known about i.e. was considered relevant previously.
*/
boolean notifyTransactionIsInBlock(Sha256Hash txHash, StoredBlock block,
BlockChain.NewBlockType blockType,
int relativityOffset) throws VerificationException;
}