ConsensusPhase

Phases of consensus for a single ledger round.

Synopsis

enum ConsensusPhase

Values

Name	Description
open	We haven't closed our ledger yet, but others might have.
establish	Establishing consensus by exchanging proposals with our peers.
accepted	We have accepted a new last closed ledger and are waiting on a call to startRound to begin the next consensus round.

Description

     "close"             "accept"
open ------- > establish ---------> accepted
  ^               |                    |
  |---------------|                    |
  ^                     "startRound"   |
  |------------------------------------|

The typical transition goes from open to establish to accepted and then a call to startRound begins the process anew. However, if a wrong prior ledger is detected and recovered during the establish or accept phase, consensus will internally go back to open (see Consensus::handleWrongLedger).

Header

#include <ripple/consensus/ConsensusTypes.h>