The XRP Ledger utilizes an account model. Unlike systems based on a UTXO
model, XRP Ledger accounts are first-class objects. This design choice
allows the XRP Ledger to offer rich functionality, including the ability
to own objects (offers, escrows, checks, signer lists) as well as other
advanced features, such as key rotation and configurable multi-signing
without needing to change a destination address.
The trade-off is that accounts must be stored on ledger. The XRP Ledger
applies reserve requirements, in XRP, to protect the shared global ledger
from growing excessively large as the result of spam or malicious usage.
Prior to this commit, accounts had been permanent objects; once created,
they could never be deleted.
This commit introduces a new amendment "DeletableAccounts" which, if
enabled, will allow account objects to be deleted by executing the new
"AccountDelete" transaction. Any funds remaining in the account will
be transferred to an account specified in the deletion transaction.
The amendment changes the mechanics of account creation; previously
a new account would have an initial sequence number of 1. Accounts
created after the amendment will have an initial sequence number that
is equal to the ledger in which the account was created.
Accounts can only be deleted if they are not associated with any
obligations (like RippleStates, Escrows, or PayChannels) and if the
current ledger sequence number exceeds the account's sequence number
by at least 256 so that, if recreated, the account can be protected
from transaction replay.
At this point all of the jss::* names are defined in the same
file. That file has been named JsonFields.h. That file name
has little to do with either JsonStaticStrings (which is what
jss is short for) or with jss. The file is renamed to jss.h
so the file name better reflects what the file contains.
All includes of that file are fixed. A few include order
issues are tidied up along the way.
* Can be exercised from the command line with json2
* Rewrite Env::do_rpc to call the same code as
rpc from the command line. This puts rpc
handling logic in one place.
This commit introduces the "SortedDirectories" amendment, which
addresses two distinct issues:
First, it corrects a technical flaw that could, in some edge cases,
prevent an empty intermediate page from being deleted.
Second, it sorts directory entries within a page (other than order
book page entries, which remain strictly FIFO). This makes insert
operations deterministic, instead of pseudo-random and reliant on
temporal ordering.
Lastly, it removes the ability to perform a "soft delete" where
the page number of the item to delete need not be known if the
item is in the first 20 pages, and enforces a maximum limit to
the number of pages that a directory can span.
Add envconfig test helper for manipulating Env config via
callables. Create new common modifiers for non-admin config,
validator config and one for using different server port values.
