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This PR is far from perfect, it wires the already written storage so master nodes can be persisted. It's left for a future PR to study how to reduce the amount of space it takes in disc and the fact that we write the entire file on every persist call.

I can address this issues before merging the PR if there is time for it

Closes #988

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Masternode synchronization state is now persisted automatically.
    • Previously saved masternode data is restored when the client restarts.
    • The client falls back to a network-default state if saved data cannot be loaded.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery and continuity of masternode synchronization across shutdowns and restarts.
    • Added safeguards to ensure persisted synchronization data remains intact.

ZocoLini and others added 2 commits August 27, 2026 14:28
`test_masternode_list_sync_with_restart` compared masternode sync progress
either side of a restart. A from-scratch network re-sync produces the same
progress as a restored one, so the test passed while the list was being rebuilt
from nothing every time (#988).

It now looks at the disk. After the first session's clean shutdown every
directory that session earned must hold a file, and across the restart no
directory may disappear or lose files.

Fails as written: the first session builds four masternodes and writes no
`masternodestate/`, while `block_headers/`, `filter_headers/`, `metadata/` and
`peers/` all persist through the same shutdown to the same directory — so the
storage layer and the shutdown are ruled out as causes.

`filters/` and `blocks/` are left out of the must-hold set on purpose: the
client stops as soon as the masternode phase reports `Synced`, which is before
the filter phase leaves `WaitForEvents`, so they are legitimately empty here.
The no-shrink check still covers them.

The engine is read before the shutdown and the count carried into the failure
message, so the assertion cannot be satisfied by a session that synced nothing
— which is the shape #954 produces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015NhHBDGiKfiGpy7FwooyfS
`storage/masternode.rs` has had no callers outside `storage/` since the legacy
sync engine was deleted, and `DashSpvClient::new` always built a fresh
`MasternodeListEngine`. Every start therefore rebuilt the whole list from the
network — a full QRInfo plus every MnListDiff — while headers, filters and
ChainLocks resumed from disk. On mobile, where the host app restarts the client
every minute or two, the rebuild rarely finishes, so a client can run with no
masternode list at all despite having synced one in a previous session
(#988).

Both halves are wired here. `MasternodesManager` takes the state store and
writes the engine wherever it reports `MasternodeStateUpdated` — the same
condition that makes the new state worth keeping. `DashSpvClient::new` loads
the state and seeds the engine, before the managers are built:
`MasternodesManager::new` already recovers its resume point from the engine's
stored lists, so a restore landing after it would be ignored.

Both directions fail soft. An unwritten list costs a rebuild next start; a
failed sync costs the list now. Likewise state that cannot be read is logged
and rebuilt, which is exactly the old behaviour.

`test_masternode_list_sync_with_restart` now passes, and the log shows why:
`0 base hash(es)` on the first sync, `Restored masternode state from height
406`, then `1 base hash(es)` on the second — the delta, not a rebuild.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015NhHBDGiKfiGpy7FwooyfS
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The client restores the masternode engine from disk at startup. The masternode manager persists verified engine state during synchronization. Storage and integration tests now validate persistence across restart.

Masternode persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Engine storage contract
dash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rs, dash-spv/src/storage/mod.rs
Storage now serializes and restores MasternodeListEngine values. Missing files produce a network-default engine.
Client restoration and sync persistence
dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs, dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs
Client startup loads persisted state and passes storage to MasternodesManager. The manager persists the engine after successful sync verification.
Constructor compatibility and restart validation
dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/sync_manager.rs, dash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/*
Test constructors accept optional storage. Integration tests check expected storage directories and ensure storage does not shrink after restart.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a413a

The PR persists and restores masternode state across restarts, but an existing state file is accepted without confirming that it belongs to the configured network. Reusing storage across networks could load incompatible state into security-sensitive transaction and chain-lock processing, so merge should wait for network validation or explicit owner acceptance.

Suggested reviewers: xdustinface, bfoss765

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DashSpvClient
  participant PersistentMasternodeStateStorage
  participant MasternodesManager
  participant MasternodeListEngine
  DashSpvClient->>PersistentMasternodeStateStorage: load_engine(network)
  PersistentMasternodeStateStorage-->>DashSpvClient: restored or default engine
  DashSpvClient->>MasternodesManager: construct with state storage
  MasternodesManager->>MasternodeListEngine: verify sync update
  MasternodesManager->>PersistentMasternodeStateStorage: store_engine(engine, height)
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation addresses the core persistence requirements in [#988]: it stores the masternode engine during synchronization, restores it during client startup, and falls back to the network-defau… Add regression coverage for restarting with the network unavailable. Assert that the persisted masternode engine, lists, quorum cycles, and synced height/hash are restored and remain usable without network access. Also verify that subsequen…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 54.55% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 7 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All changes support masternode persistence, startup restoration, storage API updates, manager integration, or regression testing for issue [#988]. No unrelated code changes are evident.
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: persisting the Dash SPV masternode list and restoring it across restarts.
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Explanation

The implementation addresses the core persistence requirements in [#988]: it stores the masternode engine during synchronization, restores it during client startup, and falls back to the network-default engine when storage is missing or unreadable. The tests verify persisted storage across restart. However, the provided summary does not show explicit offline-restart coverage or validation that restored state is used as the request base.

Resolution

Add regression coverage for restarting with the network unavailable. Assert that the persisted masternode engine, lists, quorum cycles, and synced height/hash are restored and remain usable without network access. Also verify that subsequent QRInfo and MnListDiff requests use the restored state as their base when applicable.

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❌ Patch coverage is 61.81818% with 21 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 77.14%. Comparing base (237f79a) to head (a413afd).

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
dash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rs 17.64% 14 Missing ⚠️
dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs 62.50% 3 Missing ⚠️
dash-spv/src/storage/mod.rs 60.00% 2 Missing ⚠️
dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs 88.88% 2 Missing ⚠️
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Files with missing lines Coverage Δ
dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/sync_manager.rs 88.61% <100.00%> (+0.10%) ⬆️
dash-spv/src/storage/mod.rs 85.24% <60.00%> (+0.13%) ⬆️
dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs 94.54% <88.88%> (-0.21%) ⬇️
dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs 91.00% <62.50%> (-1.31%) ⬇️
dash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rs 27.27% <17.64%> (+7.27%) ⬆️

... and 3 files with indirect coverage changes

`MasternodeStateStorage` took and returned `MasternodeState`, the on-disk
shape, so both callers had to build it: the manager serialized the engine,
stamped a timestamp and assembled the struct, and the client took it apart
again. Two places knew the encoding, and neither was the one that owns it.

The trait now takes and returns the engine. `MasternodeState` stays as the file
format and is built and read inside `masternode.rs` alone — it is no longer
named outside `storage/`. Changing how the engine is encoded, which the current
JSON-array-of-bytes shape will want, is now an edit to one file rather than
three.

`load_engine` also absorbs the case that is not an error: nothing persisted
yet yields the network's default, which is where a first run starts anyway, so
the caller loses an `Option` it only ever mapped one way. A file that exists
and cannot be read stays an `Err`, because that one is worth seeing — the
client logs it and rebuilds from the network.

The masternode manager's persistence path goes from 24 lines to 5, the
client's restore from 22 to 8.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015NhHBDGiKfiGpy7FwooyfS
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In `@dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs`:
- Around line 71-78: Update the masternode engine initialization in
MasternodeManager::new to validate the loaded engine’s network against
config.network before using it. Reject mismatches and fall back to
MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network(config.network), either by adding the
check in load_engine or immediately after loading, while preserving the existing
fallback for load errors.

In `@dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs`:
- Around line 349-361: The new persist_engine storage path lacks in-module
coverage. Add a #[tokio::test] near the manager tests that creates a real
PersistentMasternodeStateStorage, populates the manager engine, calls
persist_engine, then loads the persisted state and verifies the engine data and
height were retained.

In `@dash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/tests_sync.rs`:
- Around line 147-150: Update the restart test around the second client startup
to stop or block Dashd before launching it, preventing normal network
synchronization. Assert that the engine restores the expected masternode state
from storage and resumes progress before any network sync can occur, while
retaining the existing storage non-shrink assertion for the restart flow.
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  • dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs
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  • dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/sync_manager.rs
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Comment on lines 71 to +78
let masternode_engine = {
if config.enable_masternodes {
Some(Arc::new(RwLock::new(MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network(
config.network,
))))
let loader = storage.masternodestate();
let engine = loader.read().await.load_engine(config.network).await;
let engine = engine.unwrap_or_else(|e| {
tracing::warn!("Could not load masternode state, rebuilding: {}", e);
MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network(config.network)
});

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- masternode storage and engine bindings ---'
rg -n -C 5 'struct MasternodeStateStorage|impl MasternodeStateStorage|fn load_engine|load_engine\(|default_for_network|network' dash-spv --glob '*.rs'

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printf '%s\n' '--- engine definition and network-bearing fields ---'
rg -n -C 12 'struct MasternodeListEngine|impl MasternodeListEngine|default_for_network|Network' --glob '*.rs' --glob '!dash-spv/src/**' .
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Reject persisted engines for the wrong network.

PersistentMasternodeStateStorage stores all networks in masternodestate/masternodestate.json. For an existing file, load_engine(network) returns the serialized engine without comparing engine.network with network. MasternodesManager::new then stores config.network separately while using the loaded engine. A shared path can therefore run a Testnet engine with a Mainnet manager and use incorrect network parameters.

Scope storage by network, or reject a loaded engine when engine.network != config.network and use default_for_network(config.network).

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs` around lines 71 - 78, Update the masternode
engine initialization in MasternodeManager::new to validate the loaded engine’s
network against config.network before using it. Reject mismatches and fall back
to MasternodeListEngine::default_for_network(config.network), either by adding
the check in load_engine or immediately after loading, while preserving the
existing fallback for load errors.

Comment on lines +349 to 361
/// Best effort: an unwritten list costs a rebuild next start, a failed sync
/// costs the list now.
pub(super) async fn persist_engine(&self, height: u32) {
let Some(storage) = &self.state_storage else {
return;
};
let engine = self.engine.read().await;
if let Err(e) = storage.write().await.store_engine(&engine, height).await {
tracing::warn!("Could not persist masternode state at {height}: {e}");
} else {
tracing::debug!("Persisted masternode state at height {height}");
}
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add an in-module test for persist_engine.

All manager tests in this file pass None for state_storage, so they do not execute the new storage write path. Add a #[tokio::test] that provides a real PersistentMasternodeStateStorage, persists a populated engine, and loads it back.

As per coding guidelines, write unit tests for new functionality and comprehensive in-module tests under dash-spv/src.

Also applies to: 724-724, 761-761, 993-993

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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In `@dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs` around lines 349 - 361, The new
persist_engine storage path lacks in-module coverage. Add a #[tokio::test] near
the manager tests that creates a real PersistentMasternodeStateStorage,
populates the manager engine, calls persist_engine, then loads the persisted
state and verifies the engine data and height were retained.

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Comment thread dash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/tests_sync.rs
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