Note: Going forward, migrations will be incorporated into the CHANGELOG.md.
The way the SDK is initialized has changed. The Initializer object has been removed and Synchronizer.new now takes a longer parameter list which includes the parameters previously passed to Initializer.
SDK initialization also now requires access to the seed bytes at two times: 1. during new wallet creation and 2. during upgrade of an existing wallet to SDK 1.10 due to internal data migrations. To handle case #2, client should wrap Synchronizer.new() with a try-catch for InitializerException.SeedRequired. Clients can pass null to try to initialize the SDK without the seed, then try again if the exception is thrown to indicate the seed is needed. This pattern future-proofs initialization, as the seed may be required by future SDK updates.
Synchronizer.stop() has been removed. Synchronizer.new() now returns an instance that implements the Closeable interface. This effectively means that calls to stop() are replaced with close(). This change also enables greater safety within client applications, as the Closeable interface can be hidden from global synchronizer instances. For example:
val synchronizerFlow: Flow<Synchronizer> = callbackFlow<Synchronizer> {
val closeableSynchronizer: CloseableSynchronizer = Synchronizer.new(...)
send(closeableSynchronizer)
awaitClose {
closeableSynchronizer.close()
}
}
To improve type safety of the public API, Zcash account indexes are now represented by an Account object. The SDK currently only supports the default account, Account.DEFAULT. Migration will effectively require replacing APIs with an account 0 with Account.DEFAULT.
To support Network Upgrade 5, the way keys are generated has changed.
For SDK clients that regenerate the keys from a mnemonic, migration might look like:
- Replace usage of
UnifiedViewingKeywithUnifiedFullViewingKey - Replace
DerivationTool.deriveUnifiedViewingKeyswithDerivationTool.deriveUnifiedFullViewingKeys
For SDK clients that store the key separately from the mnemonic, the migration might look like:
- Replace usage of
UnifiedViewingKey(extfvk: String, extpub: String)withUnifiedFullViewingKey(encoding: String) - Replace
DerivationTool.deriveUnifiedViewingKeyswithDerivationTool.deriveUnifiedFullViewingKeys - Delete any previously persisted values for
UnifiedViewingKey(extfvk: String, extpub: String), provided that they can be rederived from the mnemonic. - Re-generate the key from the mnemonic using
DerivationTool.deriveUnifiedFullViewingKeys
To support Unified Addresses (UAs), some APIs have been modified. In particular, Synchronizer.getUnifiedAddress() returns the unified address while Synchronizer.getSaplingAddress() and Synchronizer.getTransparentAddress() return the sapling or transparent components of the unified address. Due to this change and the derivation of different addresses from UAs, clients may notice that the transparent address returned by this API is different from the transparent address returned by older versions of the SDK. Note that UA support does not yet encompass orchard addresses.
Due to internal changes in the SDK, the way transactions are queried and represented works differently. The previous ConfirmedTransaction object has been replaced with TransactionOverview which contains less information. Missing fields, such as memos and recipients, can be queried with Synchronizer.getMemos(TransactionOverview) and Synchronizer.getReceipients(TransactionOverview).
ZcashNetwork is no longer an enum. The prior enum values are now declared as object properties ZcashNetwork.Mainnet and ZcashNetwork.Testnet. For the most part, this change should have minimal impact. ZcashNetwork was also moved from the package cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.type to cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.model, which will require a change to your import statements. The server fields have been removed from ZcashNetwork, allowing server and network configuration to be done independently.
LightWalletEndpoint is a new object to represent server information. Default values can be obtained from LightWalletEndpoint.defaultForNetwork(ZcashNetwork)
Synchronizer no longer allows changing the endpoint after construction. Instead, construct a new Synchronizer with the desired endpoint.
Various APIs used Int to represent network block heights. Those APIs now use a typesafe BlockHeight type. BlockHeight is constructed with a factory method BlockHeight.new(ZcashNetwork, Long) which uses the network to validate the height is above the network's sapling activation height.
WalletBirthday has been renamed to Checkpoint and removed from the public API. Where clients previously passed in a WalletBirthday object, now a BlockHeight can be passed in instead.
Various APIs used Long value to represent Zatoshi currency amounts. Those APIs now use a typesafe Zatoshi class. When passing amounts, simply wrap Long values with the Zatoshi constructor Zatoshi(Long). When receiving values, simply unwrap Long values with Zatoshi.value.
WalletBalance no longer has uninitialized default values. This means that Synchronizer fields that expose a WalletBalance now use null to signal an uninitialized value. Specifically this means Synchronizer.orchardBalances, Synchronzier.saplingBalances, and Synchronizer.transparentBalances have nullable values now.
WalletBalance has been moved from the package cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.type to cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.model
ZcashSdk.ZATOSHI_PER_ZEC has been moved to Zatoshi.ZATOSHI_PER_ZEC.
ZcashSdk.MINERS_FEE_ZATOSHI has been renamed to ZcashSdk.MINERS_FEE and the type has changed from Long to Zatoshi.
The main entrypoint to the SDK has changed.
Previously, a Synchronizer was initialized with Synchronizer(initializer) and now it is initialized with Synchronizer.new(initializer) which is also now a suspending function. Helper methods Synchronizer.newBlocking() and Initializer.newBlocking() can be used to ease the transition.
For clients needing more complex initialization, the previous default method arguments for Synchronizer() were moved to DefaultSynchronizerFactory.
The minimum Android version supported is now API 19.
Various APIs that have always been considered private have been moved into a new package called internal. While this should not be a breaking change, clients that might have relied on these internal classes should stop doing so. If necessary, these calls can be migrated by changing the import to the new internal package name.
A number of methods have been converted to suspending functions, because they were performing slow or blocking calls (e.g. disk IO) internally. This is a breaking change.
The biggest breaking changes in 1.3 that inspired incrementing the minor version number was simplifying down to one "network aware" library rather than two separate libraries, each dedicated to either testnet or mainnet. This greatly simplifies the gradle configuration and has lots of other benefits. Wallets can now set a network with code similar to the following:
// Simple example
val network: ZcashNetwork = if (testMode) ZcashNetwork.Testnet else ZcashNetwork.Mainnet
// Dependency Injection example
@Provides @Singleton fun provideNetwork(): ZcashNetwork = ZcashNetwork.Mainnet1.3 also adds a runtime check for wallets that are accessing properties before the synchronizer has started. By introducing a prepare step, we are now able to catch these errors proactively rather than allowing them to turn into subtle bugs that only surface later. We found this when code was accessing properties before database migrations completed, causing undefined results. Developers do not need to make any changes to enable these checks, they happen automatically and result in detailed error messages.
| Error | Issue | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| No value passed for parameter 'network' | Many functions are now network-aware | pass an instance of ZcashNetwork, which is typically set during initialization |
| Unresolved reference: validate | The validate package was removed |
instead of cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.validate.AddressTypeimport cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.type.AddressType |
| Unresolved reference: WalletBalance | WalletBalance was moved out of CompactBlockProcessor and up to the type package |
instead of cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.CompactBlockProcessor.WalletBalanceimport cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.type.WalletBalance |
| Unresolved reference: server | This was replaced by setNetwork |
instead of config.server(host, port)use config.setNetwork(network, host, port) |
| Unresolved reference: balances | 3 types of balances are now exposed | change balances to saplingBalances |
| Unresolved reference: latestBalance | There are now multiple balance types so this convenience function was removed in favor of forcing wallets to think about which balances they want to show. | In most cases, just use synchronizer.saplingBalances.value directly, instead |
| Type mismatch: inferred type is String but ZcashNetwork was expected | This function is now network aware | use Initializer.erase(context, network, alias) |
| Type mismatch: inferred type is Int? but ZcashNetwork was expected | This function is now network aware | use WalletBirthdayTool.loadNearest(context, network, height) instead |
| None of the following functions can be called with the arguments supplied: public open fun deriveShieldedAddress(seed: ByteArray, network: ZcashNetwork, accountIndex: Int = ...): String defined in cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.tool.DerivationTool.Companion public open fun deriveShieldedAddress(viewingKey: String, network: ZcashNetwork): String defined in cash.z.ecc.android.sdk.tool.DerivationTool.Companion |
This function is now network aware | use deriveShieldedAddress(seed, network) |