Merge branch 'feature/nio' into develop

.editorconfig

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+root = true
+
+[*]
+end_of_line = lf
+insert_final_newline = true
+charset = utf-8
+indent_size = 4

buildSrc/src/main/groovy/ch/dissem/gradle/GitFlowVersion.groovy

@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ class GitFlowVersion implements Plugin<Project> {
         if (project.ext.isRelease) {
             return getTag(project)
         } else {
-            return getBranch(project).replaceAll("/", "-") + "-SNAPSHOT"
+            def branch = getBranch(project)
+            if ("develop" == branch) {
+                return "development-SNAPSHOT"
+            }
+            return branch.replaceAll("/", "-") + "-SNAPSHOT"
         }
     }
 

core/build.gradle

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ artifacts {
 
 dependencies {
     compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.12'
-    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
+    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
     testCompile 'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:1.3'
     testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
     testCompile project(':cryptography-bc')

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/BitmessageContext.java

@@ -62,16 +62,16 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
     private final InternalContext ctx;
 
     private final Labeler labeler;
-    private final NetworkHandler.MessageListener networkListener;
 
     private final boolean sendPubkeyOnIdentityCreation;
 
     private BitmessageContext(Builder builder) {
+        if (builder.listener instanceof Listener.WithContext) {
+            ((Listener.WithContext) builder.listener).setContext(this);
+        }
         ctx = new InternalContext(builder);
         labeler = builder.labeler;
         ctx.getProofOfWorkService().doMissingProofOfWork(30_000); // TODO: this should be configurable
-
-        networkListener = new DefaultMessageListener(ctx, labeler, builder.listener);
         sendPubkeyOnIdentityCreation = builder.sendPubkeyOnIdentityCreation;
     }
 
@@ -89,11 +89,11 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
 
     public BitmessageAddress createIdentity(boolean shorter, Feature... features) {
         final BitmessageAddress identity = new BitmessageAddress(new PrivateKey(
-                shorter,
+            shorter,
-                ctx.getStreams()[0],
+            ctx.getStreams()[0],
-                NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE,
+            NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE,
-                NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES,
+            NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES,
-                features
+            features
         ));
         ctx.getAddressRepository().save(identity);
         if (sendPubkeyOnIdentityCreation) {
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
     }
 
     public List<BitmessageAddress> createDeterministicAddresses(
-            String passphrase, int numberOfAddresses, long version, long stream, boolean shorter) {
+        String passphrase, int numberOfAddresses, long version, long stream, boolean shorter) {
         List<BitmessageAddress> result = BitmessageAddress.deterministic(
-                passphrase, numberOfAddresses, version, stream, shorter);
+            passphrase, numberOfAddresses, version, stream, shorter);
         for (int i = 0; i < result.size(); i++) {
             BitmessageAddress address = result.get(i);
             address.setAlias("deterministic (" + (i + 1) + ")");
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
 
     public void broadcast(final BitmessageAddress from, final String subject, final String message) {
         Plaintext msg = new Plaintext.Builder(BROADCAST)
-                .from(from)
+            .from(from)
-                .message(subject, message)
+            .message(subject, message)
-                .build();
+            .build();
         send(msg);
     }
 
@@ -141,10 +141,10 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("'From' must be an identity, i.e. have a private key.");
         }
         Plaintext msg = new Plaintext.Builder(MSG)
-                .from(from)
+            .from(from)
-                .to(to)
+            .to(to)
-                .message(subject, message)
+            .message(subject, message)
-                .build();
+            .build();
         send(msg);
     }
 
@@ -170,17 +170,17 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
                 ctx.send(msg);
             } else {
                 ctx.send(
-                        msg.getFrom(),
+                    msg.getFrom(),
-                        to,
+                    to,
-                        Factory.getBroadcast(msg),
+                    Factory.getBroadcast(msg),
-                        msg.getTTL()
+                    msg.getTTL()
                 );
             }
         }
     }
 
     public void startup() {
-        ctx.getNetworkHandler().start(networkListener);
+        ctx.getNetworkHandler().start();
     }
 
     public void shutdown() {
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
      * @param wait             waits for the synchronization thread to finish
      */
     public void synchronize(InetAddress host, int port, long timeoutInSeconds, boolean wait) {
-        Future<?> future = ctx.getNetworkHandler().synchronize(host, port, networkListener, timeoutInSeconds);
+        Future<?> future = ctx.getNetworkHandler().synchronize(host, port, timeoutInSeconds);
         if (wait) {
             try {
                 future.get();
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
                 broadcast.decrypt(address);
                 // This decrypts it twice, but on the other hand it doesn't try to decrypt the objects with
                 // other subscriptions and the interface stays as simple as possible.
-                networkListener.receive(object);
+                ctx.getNetworkListener().receive(object);
             } catch (DecryptionFailedException ignore) {
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 LOG.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
 
     public Property status() {
         return new Property("status", null,
-                ctx.getNetworkHandler().getNetworkStatus(),
+            ctx.getNetworkHandler().getNetworkStatus(),
-                new Property("unacknowledged", ctx.getMessageRepository().findMessagesToResend().size())
+            new Property("unacknowledged", ctx.getMessageRepository().findMessagesToResend().size())
         );
     }
 
@@ -296,6 +296,13 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
 
     public interface Listener {
         void receive(Plaintext plaintext);
+
+        /**
+         * A message listener that needs a {@link BitmessageContext}, i.e. for implementing some sort of chat bot.
+         */
+        interface WithContext extends Listener {
+            void setContext(BitmessageContext ctx);
+        }
     }
 
     public static final class Builder {
@@ -429,7 +436,7 @@ public class BitmessageContext {
                     @Override
                     public MessagePayload handle(CustomMessage request) {
                         throw new IllegalStateException(
-                                "Received custom request, but no custom command handler configured.");
+                            "Received custom request, but no custom command handler configured.");
                     }
                 };
             }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/DefaultMessageListener.java

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.InventoryVector;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.DecryptionFailedException;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.Labeler;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.TTL;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -32,21 +31,24 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Plaintext.Status.*;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Plaintext.Status.PUBKEY_REQUESTED;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime.DAY;
 
-class DefaultMessageListener implements NetworkHandler.MessageListener {
+class DefaultMessageListener implements NetworkHandler.MessageListener, InternalContext.ContextHolder {
     private final static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DefaultMessageListener.class);
-    private final InternalContext ctx;
     private final Labeler labeler;
     private final BitmessageContext.Listener listener;
+    private InternalContext ctx;
 
-    public DefaultMessageListener(InternalContext context, Labeler labeler, BitmessageContext.Listener listener) {
+    public DefaultMessageListener(Labeler labeler, BitmessageContext.Listener listener) {
-        this.ctx = context;
         this.labeler = labeler;
         this.listener = listener;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void setContext(InternalContext context) {
+        this.ctx = context;
+    }
+
     @Override
     @SuppressWarnings("ConstantConditions")
     public void receive(ObjectMessage object) throws IOException {

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/InternalContext.java

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ public class InternalContext {
     private final CustomCommandHandler customCommandHandler;
     private final ProofOfWorkService proofOfWorkService;
     private final Labeler labeler;
+    private final NetworkHandler.MessageListener networkListener;
 
     private final TreeSet<Long> streams = new TreeSet<>();
     private final int port;
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ public class InternalContext {
         this.connectionLimit = builder.connectionLimit;
         this.connectionTTL = builder.connectionTTL;
         this.labeler = builder.labeler;
+        this.networkListener = new DefaultMessageListener(labeler, builder.listener);
 
         Singleton.initialize(cryptography);
 
@@ -94,7 +96,8 @@ public class InternalContext {
         }
 
         init(cryptography, inventory, nodeRegistry, networkHandler, addressRepository, messageRepository,
-                proofOfWorkRepository, proofOfWorkService, proofOfWorkEngine, customCommandHandler, builder.labeler);
+            proofOfWorkRepository, proofOfWorkService, proofOfWorkEngine, customCommandHandler, builder.labeler,
+            networkListener);
         for (BitmessageAddress identity : addressRepository.getIdentities()) {
             streams.add(identity.getStream());
         }
@@ -148,6 +151,10 @@ public class InternalContext {
         return labeler;
     }
 
+    public NetworkHandler.MessageListener getNetworkListener() {
+        return networkListener;
+    }
+
     public long[] getStreams() {
         long[] result = new long[streams.size()];
         int i = 0;
@@ -178,10 +185,10 @@ public class InternalContext {
             long expires = UnixTime.now(+timeToLive);
             LOG.info("Expires at " + expires);
             final ObjectMessage object = new ObjectMessage.Builder()
-                    .stream(recipient.getStream())
+                .stream(recipient.getStream())
-                    .expiresTime(expires)
+                .expiresTime(expires)
-                    .payload(payload)
+                .payload(payload)
-                    .build();
+                .build();
             if (object.isSigned()) {
                 object.sign(from.getPrivateKey());
             }
@@ -201,10 +208,10 @@ public class InternalContext {
             long expires = UnixTime.now(TTL.pubkey());
             LOG.info("Expires at " + expires);
             final ObjectMessage response = new ObjectMessage.Builder()
-                    .stream(targetStream)
+                .stream(targetStream)
-                    .expiresTime(expires)
+                .expiresTime(expires)
-                    .payload(identity.getPubkey())
+                .payload(identity.getPubkey())
-                    .build();
+                .build();
             response.sign(identity.getPrivateKey());
             response.encrypt(cryptography.createPublicKey(identity.getPublicDecryptionKey()));
             // TODO: remember that the pubkey is just about to be sent, and on which stream!
@@ -239,10 +246,10 @@ public class InternalContext {
         long expires = UnixTime.now(TTL.getpubkey());
         LOG.info("Expires at " + expires);
         final ObjectMessage request = new ObjectMessage.Builder()
-                .stream(contact.getStream())
+            .stream(contact.getStream())
-                .expiresTime(expires)
+            .expiresTime(expires)
-                .payload(new GetPubkey(contact))
+            .payload(new GetPubkey(contact))
-                .build();
+            .build();
         proofOfWorkService.doProofOfWork(request);
     }
 

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ProofOfWorkService.java

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.ProofOfWorkRepository.Item;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Timer;
 import java.util.TimerTask;
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ public class ProofOfWorkService implements ProofOfWorkEngine.Callback, InternalC
                 for (byte[] initialHash : items) {
                     Item item = powRepo.getItem(initialHash);
                     cryptography.doProofOfWork(item.object, item.nonceTrialsPerByte, item.extraBytes,
-                            ProofOfWorkService.this);
+                        ProofOfWorkService.this);
                 }
             }
         }, delayInMilliseconds);
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ public class ProofOfWorkService implements ProofOfWorkEngine.Callback, InternalC
         final ObjectMessage ack = plaintext.getAckMessage();
         messageRepo.save(plaintext);
         Item item = new Item(ack, NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE, NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES,
-                expirationTime, plaintext);
+            expirationTime, plaintext);
         powRepo.putObject(item);
         cryptography.doProofOfWork(ack, NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE, NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES, this);
     }
@@ -89,15 +90,20 @@ public class ProofOfWorkService implements ProofOfWorkEngine.Callback, InternalC
                 ctx.getLabeler().markAsSent(plaintext);
                 messageRepo.save(plaintext);
             }
+            try {
+                ctx.getNetworkListener().receive(object);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                LOG.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
+            }
             ctx.getInventory().storeObject(object);
             ctx.getNetworkHandler().offer(object.getInventoryVector());
         } else {
             item.message.getAckMessage().setNonce(nonce);
             final ObjectMessage object = new ObjectMessage.Builder()
-                    .stream(item.message.getStream())
+                .stream(item.message.getStream())
-                    .expiresTime(item.expirationTime)
+                .expiresTime(item.expirationTime)
-                    .payload(new Msg(item.message))
+                .payload(new Msg(item.message))
-                    .build();
+                .build();
             if (object.isSigned()) {
                 object.sign(item.message.getFrom().getPrivateKey());
             }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/Addr.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -47,10 +48,18 @@ public class Addr implements MessagePayload {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void write(OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public void write(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
-        Encode.varInt(addresses.size(), stream);
+        Encode.varInt(addresses.size(), out);
         for (NetworkAddress address : addresses) {
-            address.write(stream);
+            address.write(out);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        Encode.varInt(addresses.size(), buffer);
+        for (NetworkAddress address : addresses) {
+            address.write(buffer);
         }
     }
 

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/CustomMessage.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.AccessCounter;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 
 import java.io.*;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode.bytes;
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode.varString;
@@ -85,6 +86,17 @@ public class CustomMessage implements MessagePayload {
         }
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        if (data != null) {
+            Encode.varString(command, buffer);
+            buffer.put(data);
+        } else {
+            throw new ApplicationException("Tried to write custom message without data. " +
+                    "Programmer: did you forget to override #write()?");
+        }
+    }
+
     public boolean isError() {
         return COMMAND_ERROR.equals(command);
     }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/GetData.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -55,6 +56,14 @@ public class GetData implements MessagePayload {
         }
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        Encode.varInt(inventory.size(), buffer);
+        for (InventoryVector iv : inventory) {
+            iv.write(buffer);
+        }
+    }
+
     public static final class Builder {
         private List<InventoryVector> inventory = new LinkedList<>();
 

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/Inv.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -53,6 +54,14 @@ public class Inv implements MessagePayload {
         }
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        Encode.varInt(inventory.size(), buffer);
+        for (InventoryVector iv : inventory) {
+            iv.write(buffer);
+        }
+    }
+
     public static final class Builder {
         private List<InventoryVector> inventory = new LinkedList<>();
 

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/NetworkMessage.java

@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ package ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.ApplicationException;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
@@ -74,9 +74,7 @@ public class NetworkMessage implements Streamable {
             out.write('\0');
         }
 
-        ByteArrayOutputStream payloadStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        byte[] payloadBytes = Encode.bytes(payload);
-        payload.write(payloadStream);
-        byte[] payloadBytes = payloadStream.toByteArray();
 
         // Length of payload in number of bytes. Because of other restrictions, there is no reason why this length would
         // ever be larger than 1600003 bytes. Some clients include a sanity-check to avoid processing messages which are
@@ -93,4 +91,61 @@ public class NetworkMessage implements Streamable {
         // message payload
         out.write(payloadBytes);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * A more efficient implementation of the write method, writing header data to the provided buffer and returning
+     * a new buffer containing the payload.
+     *
+     * @param headerBuffer where the header data is written to (24 bytes)
+     * @return a buffer containing the payload, ready to be read.
+     */
+    public ByteBuffer writeHeaderAndGetPayloadBuffer(ByteBuffer headerBuffer) {
+        return ByteBuffer.wrap(writeHeader(headerBuffer));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * For improved memory efficiency, you should use {@link #writeHeaderAndGetPayloadBuffer(ByteBuffer)}
+     * and write the header buffer as well as the returned payload buffer into the channel.
+     *
+     * @param buffer where everything gets written to. Needs to be large enough for the whole message
+     *               to be written.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        byte[] payloadBytes = writeHeader(buffer);
+        buffer.put(payloadBytes);
+    }
+
+    private byte[] writeHeader(ByteBuffer out) {
+        // magic
+        Encode.int32(MAGIC, out);
+
+        // ASCII string identifying the packet content, NULL padded (non-NULL padding results in packet rejected)
+        String command = payload.getCommand().name().toLowerCase();
+        try {
+            out.put(command.getBytes("ASCII"));
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+        for (int i = command.length(); i < 12; i++) {
+            out.put((byte) 0);
+        }
+
+        byte[] payloadBytes = Encode.bytes(payload);
+
+        // Length of payload in number of bytes. Because of other restrictions, there is no reason why this length would
+        // ever be larger than 1600003 bytes. Some clients include a sanity-check to avoid processing messages which are
+        // larger than this.
+        Encode.int32(payloadBytes.length, out);
+
+        // checksum
+        try {
+            out.put(getChecksum(payloadBytes));
+        } catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+
+        // message payload
+        return payloadBytes;
+    }
 }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/ObjectMessage.java

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
@@ -168,6 +169,16 @@ public class ObjectMessage implements MessagePayload {
         out.write(getPayloadBytesWithoutNonce());
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        if (nonce == null) {
+            buffer.put(new byte[8]);
+        } else {
+            buffer.put(nonce);
+        }
+        buffer.put(getPayloadBytesWithoutNonce());
+    }
+
     private void writeHeaderWithoutNonce(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         Encode.int64(expiresTime, out);
         Encode.int32(objectType, out);

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/Plaintext.java

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.factory.Factory;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.*;
 
 import java.io.*;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.Collections;
 
@@ -197,12 +198,49 @@ public class Plaintext implements Streamable {
             }
         }
     }
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer, boolean includeSignature) {
+        Encode.varInt(from.getVersion(), buffer);
+        Encode.varInt(from.getStream(), buffer);
+        Encode.int32(from.getPubkey().getBehaviorBitfield(), buffer);
+        buffer.put(from.getPubkey().getSigningKey(), 1, 64);
+        buffer.put(from.getPubkey().getEncryptionKey(), 1, 64);
+        if (from.getVersion() >= 3) {
+            Encode.varInt(from.getPubkey().getNonceTrialsPerByte(), buffer);
+            Encode.varInt(from.getPubkey().getExtraBytes(), buffer);
+        }
+        if (type == Type.MSG) {
+            buffer.put(to.getRipe());
+        }
+        Encode.varInt(encoding, buffer);
+        Encode.varInt(message.length, buffer);
+        buffer.put(message);
+        if (type == Type.MSG) {
+            if (to.has(Feature.DOES_ACK) && getAckMessage() != null) {
+                Encode.varBytes(Encode.bytes(getAckMessage()), buffer);
+            } else {
+                Encode.varInt(0, buffer);
+            }
+        }
+        if (includeSignature) {
+            if (signature == null) {
+                Encode.varInt(0, buffer);
+            } else {
+                Encode.varInt(signature.length, buffer);
+                buffer.put(signature);
+            }
+        }
+    }
 
     @Override
     public void write(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         write(out, true);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        write(buffer, true);
+    }
+
     public Object getId() {
         return id;
     }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/Streamable.java

@@ -19,10 +19,13 @@ package ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 /**
  * An object that can be written to an {@link OutputStream}
  */
 public interface Streamable extends Serializable {
     void write(OutputStream stream) throws IOException;
+
+    void write(ByteBuffer buffer);
 }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/VerAck.java

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 /**
  * The 'verack' command answers a 'version' command, accepting the other node's version.
@@ -34,4 +35,9 @@ public class VerAck implements MessagePayload {
     public void write(OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
         // 'verack' doesn't have any payload, so there is nothing to write
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        // 'verack' doesn't have any payload, so there is nothing to write
+    }
 }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/Version.java

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.util.Random;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 /**
  * The 'version' command advertises this node's latest supported protocol version upon initiation.
@@ -134,6 +134,18 @@ public class Version implements MessagePayload {
         Encode.varIntList(streams, stream);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        Encode.int32(version, buffer);
+        Encode.int64(services, buffer);
+        Encode.int64(timestamp, buffer);
+        addrRecv.write(buffer, true);
+        addrFrom.write(buffer, true);
+        Encode.int64(nonce, buffer);
+        Encode.varString(userAgent, buffer);
+        Encode.varIntList(streams, buffer);
+    }
+
 
     public static final class Builder {
         private int version;

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/CryptoBox.java

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.io.*;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.PrivateKey.PRIVATE_KEY_SIZE;
@@ -144,12 +145,29 @@ public class CryptoBox implements Streamable {
         out.write(x, offset, length);
     }
 
+    private void writeCoordinateComponent(ByteBuffer buffer, byte[] x) {
+        int offset = Bytes.numberOfLeadingZeros(x);
+        int length = x.length - offset;
+        Encode.int16(length, buffer);
+        buffer.put(x, offset, length);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void write(OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
         writeWithoutMAC(stream);
         stream.write(mac);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.put(initializationVector);
+        Encode.int16(curveType, buffer);
+        writeCoordinateComponent(buffer, Points.getX(R));
+        writeCoordinateComponent(buffer, Points.getY(R));
+        buffer.put(encrypted);
+        buffer.put(mac);
+    }
+
     public static final class Builder {
         private byte[] initializationVector;
         private int curveType;

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/GenericPayload.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 /**
@@ -62,6 +63,11 @@ public class GenericPayload extends ObjectPayload {
         stream.write(data);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.put(data);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public boolean equals(Object o) {
         if (this == o) return true;

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/GetPubkey.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 /**
  * Request for a public key.
@@ -73,4 +74,9 @@ public class GetPubkey extends ObjectPayload {
     public void write(OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
         stream.write(ripeTag);
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.put(ripeTag);
+    }
 }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/Msg.java

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.DecryptionFailedException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Plaintext.Type.MSG;
@@ -111,6 +112,12 @@ public class Msg extends ObjectPayload implements Encrypted, PlaintextHolder {
         encrypted.write(out);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        if (encrypted == null) throw new IllegalStateException("Msg must be signed and encrypted before writing it.");
+        encrypted.write(buffer);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public boolean equals(Object o) {
         if (this == o) return true;

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/Pubkey.java

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.payload;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Singleton.cryptography;
@@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ public abstract class Pubkey extends ObjectPayload {
         write(out);
     }
 
+    public void writeUnencrypted(ByteBuffer buffer){
+        write(buffer);
+    }
+
     protected byte[] add0x04(byte[] key) {
         if (key.length == 65) return key;
         byte[] result = new byte[65];

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/V2Pubkey.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 /**
  * A version 2 public key.
@@ -86,10 +87,17 @@ public class V2Pubkey extends Pubkey {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void write(OutputStream os) throws IOException {
+    public void write(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
-        Encode.int32(behaviorBitfield, os);
+        Encode.int32(behaviorBitfield, out);
-        os.write(publicSigningKey, 1, 64);
+        out.write(publicSigningKey, 1, 64);
-        os.write(publicEncryptionKey, 1, 64);
+        out.write(publicEncryptionKey, 1, 64);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        Encode.int32(behaviorBitfield, buffer);
+        buffer.put(publicSigningKey, 1, 64);
+        buffer.put(publicEncryptionKey, 1, 64);
     }
 
     public static class Builder {

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/V4Broadcast.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Plaintext;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 /**
  * Users who are subscribed to the sending address will see the message appear in their inbox.
@@ -58,4 +59,9 @@ public class V4Broadcast extends Broadcast {
     public void write(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         encrypted.write(out);
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        encrypted.write(buffer);
+    }
 }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/payload/V4Pubkey.java

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 /**
@@ -85,11 +86,22 @@ public class V4Pubkey extends Pubkey implements Encrypted {
         encrypted.write(stream);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.put(tag);
+        encrypted.write(buffer);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void writeUnencrypted(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         decrypted.write(out);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void writeUnencrypted(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        decrypted.write(buffer);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void writeBytesToSign(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         out.write(tag);

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/valueobject/InventoryVector.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Strings;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 public class InventoryVector implements Streamable, Serializable {
@@ -56,8 +57,13 @@ public class InventoryVector implements Streamable, Serializable {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void write(OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public void write(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
-        stream.write(hash);
+        out.write(hash);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.put(hash);
     }
 
     @Override

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/valueobject/NetworkAddress.java

@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.SocketAddress;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 /**
@@ -38,19 +41,19 @@ public class NetworkAddress implements Streamable {
     /**
      * Stream number for this node
      */
-    private long stream;
+    private final long stream;
 
     /**
      * same service(s) listed in version
      */
-    private long services;
+    private final long services;
 
     /**
      * IPv6 address. IPv4 addresses are written into the message as a 16 byte IPv4-mapped IPv6 address
      * (12 bytes 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF, followed by the 4 bytes of the IPv4 address).
      */
-    private byte[] ipv6;
+    private final byte[] ipv6;
-    private int port;
+    private final int port;
 
     private NetworkAddress(Builder builder) {
         time = builder.time;
@@ -119,14 +122,29 @@ public class NetworkAddress implements Streamable {
         write(stream, false);
     }
 
-    public void write(OutputStream stream, boolean light) throws IOException {
+    public void write(OutputStream out, boolean light) throws IOException {
         if (!light) {
-            Encode.int64(time, stream);
+            Encode.int64(time, out);
-            Encode.int32(this.stream, stream);
+            Encode.int32(stream, out);
         }
-        Encode.int64(services, stream);
+        Encode.int64(services, out);
-        stream.write(ipv6);
+        out.write(ipv6);
-        Encode.int16(port, stream);
+        Encode.int16(port, out);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        write(buffer, false);
+    }
+
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer, boolean light) {
+        if (!light) {
+            Encode.int64(time, buffer);
+            Encode.int32(stream, buffer);
+        }
+        Encode.int64(services, buffer);
+        buffer.put(ipv6);
+        Encode.int16(port, buffer);
     }
 
     public static final class Builder {
@@ -199,6 +217,17 @@ public class NetworkAddress implements Streamable {
             return this;
         }
 
+        public Builder address(SocketAddress address) {
+            if (address instanceof InetSocketAddress) {
+                InetSocketAddress inetAddress = (InetSocketAddress) address;
+                ip(inetAddress.getAddress());
+                port(inetAddress.getPort());
+            } else {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown type of address: " + address.getClass());
+            }
+            return this;
+        }
+
         public NetworkAddress build() {
             if (time == 0) {
                 time = UnixTime.now();

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/entity/valueobject/PrivateKey.java

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 
 import java.io.*;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -113,24 +114,20 @@ public class PrivateKey implements Streamable {
         }
 
         Builder generate() {
-            try {
+            long signingKeyNonce = nextNonce;
-                long signingKeyNonce = nextNonce;
+            long encryptionKeyNonce = nextNonce + 1;
-                long encryptionKeyNonce = nextNonce + 1;
+            byte[] ripe;
-                byte[] ripe;
+            do {
-                do {
+                privEK = Bytes.truncate(cryptography().sha512(seed, Encode.varInt(encryptionKeyNonce)), 32);
-                    privEK = Bytes.truncate(cryptography().sha512(seed, Encode.varInt(encryptionKeyNonce)), 32);
+                privSK = Bytes.truncate(cryptography().sha512(seed, Encode.varInt(signingKeyNonce)), 32);
-                    privSK = Bytes.truncate(cryptography().sha512(seed, Encode.varInt(signingKeyNonce)), 32);
+                pubSK = cryptography().createPublicKey(privSK);
-                    pubSK = cryptography().createPublicKey(privSK);
+                pubEK = cryptography().createPublicKey(privEK);
-                    pubEK = cryptography().createPublicKey(privEK);
+                ripe = cryptography().ripemd160(cryptography().sha512(pubSK, pubEK));
-                    ripe = cryptography().ripemd160(cryptography().sha512(pubSK, pubEK));
 
-                    signingKeyNonce += 2;
+                signingKeyNonce += 2;
-                    encryptionKeyNonce += 2;
+                encryptionKeyNonce += 2;
-                } while (ripe[0] != 0 || (shorter && ripe[1] != 0));
+            } while (ripe[0] != 0 || (shorter && ripe[1] != 0));
-                nextNonce = signingKeyNonce;
+            nextNonce = signingKeyNonce;
-            } catch (IOException e) {
-                throw new ApplicationException(e);
-            }
             return this;
         }
     }
@@ -182,4 +179,20 @@ public class PrivateKey implements Streamable {
         Encode.varInt(privateEncryptionKey.length, out);
         out.write(privateEncryptionKey);
     }
+
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        Encode.varInt(pubkey.getVersion(), buffer);
+        Encode.varInt(pubkey.getStream(), buffer);
+        try {
+            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+            pubkey.writeUnencrypted(baos);
+            Encode.varBytes(baos.toByteArray(), buffer);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+        Encode.varBytes(privateSigningKey, buffer);
+        Encode.varBytes(privateEncryptionKey, buffer);
+    }
 }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/factory/BufferPool.java

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Christian Basler
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package ch.dissem.bitmessage.factory;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Stack;
+import java.util.TreeMap;
+
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler.HEADER_SIZE;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler.MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE;
+
+/**
+ * A pool for {@link ByteBuffer}s. As they may use up a lot of memory,
+ * they should be reused as efficiently as possible.
+ */
+class BufferPool {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(BufferPool.class);
+
+    public static final BufferPool bufferPool = new BufferPool();
+
+    private final Map<Integer, Stack<ByteBuffer>> pools = new TreeMap<>();
+
+    private BufferPool() {
+        pools.put(HEADER_SIZE, new Stack<ByteBuffer>());
+        pools.put(54, new Stack<ByteBuffer>());
+        pools.put(1000, new Stack<ByteBuffer>());
+        pools.put(60000, new Stack<ByteBuffer>());
+        pools.put(MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE, new Stack<ByteBuffer>());
+    }
+
+    public synchronized ByteBuffer allocate(int capacity) {
+        Integer targetSize = getTargetSize(capacity);
+        Stack<ByteBuffer> pool = pools.get(targetSize);
+        if (pool.isEmpty()) {
+            LOG.trace("Creating new buffer of size " + targetSize);
+            return ByteBuffer.allocate(targetSize);
+        } else {
+            return pool.pop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a buffer that has the size of the Bitmessage network message header, 24 bytes.
+     *
+     * @return a buffer of size 24
+     */
+    public synchronized ByteBuffer allocateHeaderBuffer() {
+        Stack<ByteBuffer> pool = pools.get(HEADER_SIZE);
+        if (pool.isEmpty()) {
+            return ByteBuffer.allocate(HEADER_SIZE);
+        } else {
+            return pool.pop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public synchronized void deallocate(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.clear();
+        Stack<ByteBuffer> pool = pools.get(buffer.capacity());
+        if (pool == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal buffer capacity " + buffer.capacity() +
+                " one of " + pools.keySet() + " expected.");
+        } else {
+            pool.push(buffer);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Integer getTargetSize(int capacity) {
+        for (Integer size : pools.keySet()) {
+            if (size >= capacity) return size;
+        }
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Requested capacity too large: " +
+            "requested=" + capacity + "; max=" + MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE);
+    }
+}

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/factory/Factory.java

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Singleton.cryptography;
  * Creates {@link NetworkMessage} objects from {@link InputStream InputStreams}
  */
 public class Factory {
-    public static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Factory.class);
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Factory.class);
 
     public static NetworkMessage getNetworkMessage(int version, InputStream stream) throws SocketTimeoutException {
         try {

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/factory/V3MessageFactory.java

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class V3MessageFactory {
         }
     }
 
-    private static MessagePayload getPayload(String command, InputStream stream, int length) throws IOException {
+    static MessagePayload getPayload(String command, InputStream stream, int length) throws IOException {
         switch (command) {
             case "version":
                 return parseVersion(stream);
@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ class V3MessageFactory {
         }
 
         return new ObjectMessage.Builder()
-                .nonce(nonce)
+            .nonce(nonce)
-                .expiresTime(expiresTime)
+            .expiresTime(expiresTime)
-                .objectType(objectType)
+            .objectType(objectType)
-                .stream(stream)
+            .stream(stream)
-                .payload(payload)
+            .payload(payload)
-                .build();
+            .build();
     }
 
     private static GetData parseGetData(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
@@ -153,13 +153,13 @@ class V3MessageFactory {
         long[] streamNumbers = Decode.varIntList(stream);
 
         return new Version.Builder()
-                .version(version)
+            .version(version)
-                .services(services)
+            .services(services)
-                .timestamp(timestamp)
+            .timestamp(timestamp)
-                .addrRecv(addrRecv).addrFrom(addrFrom)
+            .addrRecv(addrRecv).addrFrom(addrFrom)
-                .nonce(nonce)
+            .nonce(nonce)
-                .userAgent(userAgent)
+            .userAgent(userAgent)
-                .streams(streamNumbers).build();
+            .streams(streamNumbers).build();
     }
 
     private static InventoryVector parseInventoryVector(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
@@ -179,7 +179,13 @@ class V3MessageFactory {
         long services = Decode.int64(stream);
         byte[] ipv6 = Decode.bytes(stream, 16);
         int port = Decode.uint16(stream);
-        return new NetworkAddress.Builder().time(time).stream(streamNumber).services(services).ipv6(ipv6).port(port).build();
+        return new NetworkAddress.Builder()
+            .time(time)
+            .stream(streamNumber)
+            .services(services)
+            .ipv6(ipv6)
+            .port(port)
+            .build();
     }
 
     private static boolean testChecksum(byte[] checksum, byte[] payload) {

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/factory/V3MessageReader.java

@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Christian Basler
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package ch.dissem.bitmessage.factory;
+
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.MessagePayload;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.NetworkMessage;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.ApplicationException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.NodeException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.NetworkMessage.MAGIC_BYTES;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.factory.BufferPool.bufferPool;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler.MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Singleton.cryptography;
+
+/**
+ * Similar to the {@link V3MessageFactory}, but used for NIO buffers which may or may not contain a whole message.
+ */
+public class V3MessageReader {
+    private ByteBuffer headerBuffer;
+    private ByteBuffer dataBuffer;
+
+    private ReaderState state = ReaderState.MAGIC;
+    private String command;
+    private int length;
+    private byte[] checksum;
+
+    private List<NetworkMessage> messages = new LinkedList<>();
+
+    public ByteBuffer getActiveBuffer() {
+        if (state != null && state != ReaderState.DATA) {
+            if (headerBuffer == null) {
+                headerBuffer = bufferPool.allocateHeaderBuffer();
+            }
+        }
+        return state == ReaderState.DATA ? dataBuffer : headerBuffer;
+    }
+
+    public void update() {
+        if (state != ReaderState.DATA) {
+            getActiveBuffer();
+            headerBuffer.flip();
+        }
+        switch (state) {
+            case MAGIC:
+                if (!findMagicBytes(headerBuffer)) {
+                    headerBuffer.compact();
+                    return;
+                }
+                state = ReaderState.HEADER;
+            case HEADER:
+                if (headerBuffer.remaining() < 20) {
+                    headerBuffer.compact();
+                    headerBuffer.limit(20);
+                    return;
+                }
+                command = getCommand(headerBuffer);
+                length = (int) Decode.uint32(headerBuffer);
+                if (length > MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE) {
+                    throw new NodeException("Payload of " + length + " bytes received, no more than " +
+                        MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE + " was expected.");
+                }
+                checksum = new byte[4];
+                headerBuffer.get(checksum);
+                state = ReaderState.DATA;
+                bufferPool.deallocate(headerBuffer);
+                headerBuffer = null;
+                dataBuffer = bufferPool.allocate(length);
+                dataBuffer.clear();
+                dataBuffer.limit(length);
+            case DATA:
+                if (dataBuffer.position() < length) {
+                    return;
+                } else {
+                    dataBuffer.flip();
+                }
+                if (!testChecksum(dataBuffer)) {
+                    state = ReaderState.MAGIC;
+                    throw new NodeException("Checksum failed for message '" + command + "'");
+                }
+                try {
+                    MessagePayload payload = V3MessageFactory.getPayload(
+                        command,
+                        new ByteArrayInputStream(dataBuffer.array(),
+                            dataBuffer.arrayOffset() + dataBuffer.position(), length),
+                        length);
+                    if (payload != null) {
+                        messages.add(new NetworkMessage(payload));
+                    }
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    throw new NodeException(e.getMessage());
+                } finally {
+                    state = ReaderState.MAGIC;
+                    bufferPool.deallocate(dataBuffer);
+                    dataBuffer = null;
+                    dataBuffer = null;
+                }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public List<NetworkMessage> getMessages() {
+        return messages;
+    }
+
+    private boolean findMagicBytes(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        int i = 0;
+        while (buffer.hasRemaining()) {
+            if (i == 0) {
+                buffer.mark();
+            }
+            if (buffer.get() == MAGIC_BYTES[i]) {
+                i++;
+                if (i == MAGIC_BYTES.length) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            } else {
+                i = 0;
+            }
+        }
+        if (i > 0) {
+            buffer.reset();
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private static String getCommand(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        int start = buffer.position();
+        int l = 0;
+        while (l < 12 && buffer.get() != 0) l++;
+        int i = l + 1;
+        while (i < 12) {
+            if (buffer.get() != 0) throw new NodeException("'\\0' padding expected for command");
+            i++;
+        }
+        try {
+            return new String(buffer.array(), start, l, "ASCII");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private boolean testChecksum(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        byte[] payloadChecksum = cryptography().sha512(buffer.array(),
+            buffer.arrayOffset() + buffer.position(), length);
+        for (int i = 0; i < checksum.length; i++) {
+            if (checksum[i] != payloadChecksum[i]) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * De-allocates all buffers. This method should be called iff the reader isn't used anymore, i.e. when its
+     * connection is severed.
+     */
+    public void cleanup() {
+        state = null;
+        if (headerBuffer != null) {
+            bufferPool.deallocate(headerBuffer);
+        }
+        if (dataBuffer != null) {
+            bufferPool.deallocate(dataBuffer);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private enum ReaderState {MAGIC, HEADER, DATA}
+}

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ports/AbstractCryptography.java

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Numbers.max;
  * Implements everything that isn't directly dependent on either Spongy- or Bouncycastle.
  */
 public abstract class AbstractCryptography implements Cryptography, InternalContext.ContextHolder {
-    public static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Cryptography.class);
+    protected static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Cryptography.class);
     private static final SecureRandom RANDOM = new SecureRandom();
     private static final BigInteger TWO = BigInteger.valueOf(2);
     private static final BigInteger TWO_POW_64 = TWO.pow(64);
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ public abstract class AbstractCryptography implements Cryptography, InternalCont
         this.context = context;
     }
 
+    public byte[] sha512(byte[] data, int offset, int length) {
+        MessageDigest mda = md("SHA-512");
+        mda.update(data, offset, length);
+        return mda.digest();
+    }
+
     public byte[] sha512(byte[]... data) {
         return hash("SHA-512", data);
     }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ports/Cryptography.java

@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ import java.security.SecureRandom;
  * which should be secure enough.
  */
 public interface Cryptography {
+    /**
+     * A helper method to calculate SHA-512 hashes. Please note that a new {@link MessageDigest} object is created at
+     * each call (to ensure thread safety), so you shouldn't use this if you need to do many hash calculations in
+     * success on the same thread.
+     *
+     * @param data   to get hashed
+     * @param offset of the data to be hashed
+     * @param length of the data to be hashed
+     * @return SHA-512 hash of data within the given range
+     */
+    byte[] sha512(byte[] data, int offset, int length);
+
     /**
      * A helper method to calculate SHA-512 hashes. Please note that a new {@link MessageDigest} object is created at
      * each call (to ensure thread safety), so you shouldn't use this if you need to do many hash calculations in

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ports/MemoryNodeRegistry.java

@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2015 Christian Basler
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports;
-
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.ApplicationException;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.net.InetAddress;
-import java.util.*;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
-
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Collections.selectRandom;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime.HOUR;
-import static java.util.Collections.newSetFromMap;
-
-public class MemoryNodeRegistry implements NodeRegistry {
-    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MemoryNodeRegistry.class);
-
-    private final Map<Long, Set<NetworkAddress>> stableNodes = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
-    private final Map<Long, Set<NetworkAddress>> knownNodes = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
-
-    private void loadStableNodes() {
-        try (InputStream in = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("nodes.txt")) {
-            Scanner scanner = new Scanner(in);
-            long stream = 0;
-            Set<NetworkAddress> streamSet = null;
-            while (scanner.hasNext()) {
-                try {
-                    String line = scanner.nextLine().trim();
-                    if (line.startsWith("[stream")) {
-                        stream = Long.parseLong(line.substring(8, line.lastIndexOf(']')));
-                        streamSet = new HashSet<>();
-                        stableNodes.put(stream, streamSet);
-                    } else if (streamSet != null && !line.isEmpty() && !line.startsWith("#")) {
-                        int portIndex = line.lastIndexOf(':');
-                        InetAddress[] inetAddresses = InetAddress.getAllByName(line.substring(0, portIndex));
-                        int port = Integer.valueOf(line.substring(portIndex + 1));
-                        for (InetAddress inetAddress : inetAddresses) {
-                            streamSet.add(new NetworkAddress.Builder().ip(inetAddress).port(port).stream(stream).build());
-                        }
-                    }
-                } catch (IOException e) {
-                    LOG.warn(e.getMessage(), e);
-                }
-            }
-            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-                for (Map.Entry<Long, Set<NetworkAddress>> e : stableNodes.entrySet()) {
-                    LOG.debug("Stream " + e.getKey() + ": loaded " + e.getValue().size() + " bootstrap nodes.");
-                }
-            }
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new ApplicationException(e);
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public List<NetworkAddress> getKnownAddresses(int limit, long... streams) {
-        List<NetworkAddress> result = new LinkedList<>();
-        for (long stream : streams) {
-            Set<NetworkAddress> known = knownNodes.get(stream);
-            if (known != null && !known.isEmpty()) {
-                for (NetworkAddress node : known) {
-                    if (node.getTime() > UnixTime.now(-3 * HOUR)) {
-                        result.add(node);
-                    } else {
-                        known.remove(node);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            if (result.isEmpty()) {
-                if (stableNodes.isEmpty()) {
-                    loadStableNodes();
-                }
-                Set<NetworkAddress> nodes = stableNodes.get(stream);
-                if (nodes != null && !nodes.isEmpty()) {
-                    // To reduce load on stable nodes, only return one
-                    result.add(selectRandom(nodes));
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        return selectRandom(limit, result);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void offerAddresses(List<NetworkAddress> addresses) {
-        for (NetworkAddress node : addresses) {
-            if (node.getTime() <= UnixTime.now()) {
-                if (!knownNodes.containsKey(node.getStream())) {
-                    synchronized (knownNodes) {
-                        if (!knownNodes.containsKey(node.getStream())) {
-                            knownNodes.put(
-                                    node.getStream(),
-                                    newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap<NetworkAddress, Boolean>())
-                            );
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-                if (node.getTime() <= UnixTime.now()) {
-                    // TODO: This isn't quite correct
-                    // If the node is already known, the one with the more recent time should be used
-                    knownNodes.get(node.getStream()).add(node);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ports/NetworkHandler.java

@@ -23,19 +23,25 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Property;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 
 /**
  * Handles incoming messages
  */
 public interface NetworkHandler {
+    int NETWORK_MAGIC_NUMBER = 8;
+    int HEADER_SIZE = 24;
+    int MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE = 1600003;
+    int MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE = HEADER_SIZE + MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE;
+
     /**
      * Connects to the trusted host, fetches and offers new messages and disconnects afterwards.
      * <p>
      * An implementation should disconnect if either the timeout is reached or the returned thread is interrupted.
      * </p>
      */
-    Future<?> synchronize(InetAddress server, int port, MessageListener listener, long timeoutInSeconds);
+    Future<?> synchronize(InetAddress server, int port, long timeoutInSeconds);
 
     /**
      * Send a custom message to a specific node (that should implement handling for this message type) and returns
@@ -51,7 +57,7 @@ public interface NetworkHandler {
     /**
      * Start a full network node, accepting incoming connections and relaying objects.
      */
-    void start(MessageListener listener);
+    void start();
 
     /**
      * Stop the full network node.
@@ -63,6 +69,13 @@ public interface NetworkHandler {
      */
     void offer(InventoryVector iv);
 
+    /**
+     * Request each of those objects from a node that knows of the requested object.
+     *
+     * @param inventoryVectors of the objects to be requested
+     */
+    void request(Collection<InventoryVector> inventoryVectors);
+
     Property getNetworkStatus();
 
     boolean isRunning();

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ports/NodeRegistryHelper.java

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports;
+
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.ApplicationException;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.util.*;
+
+/**
+ * Helper class to kick start node registries.
+ */
+public class NodeRegistryHelper {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NodeRegistryHelper.class);
+
+    public static Map<Long, Set<NetworkAddress>> loadStableNodes() {
+        try (InputStream in = NodeRegistryHelper.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("nodes.txt")) {
+            Scanner scanner = new Scanner(in);
+            long stream = 0;
+            Map<Long, Set<NetworkAddress>> result = new HashMap<>();
+            Set<NetworkAddress> streamSet = null;
+            while (scanner.hasNext()) {
+                try {
+                    String line = scanner.nextLine().trim();
+                    if (line.startsWith("[stream")) {
+                        stream = Long.parseLong(line.substring(8, line.lastIndexOf(']')));
+                        streamSet = new HashSet<>();
+                        result.put(stream, streamSet);
+                    } else if (streamSet != null && !line.isEmpty() && !line.startsWith("#")) {
+                        int portIndex = line.lastIndexOf(':');
+                        InetAddress[] inetAddresses = InetAddress.getAllByName(line.substring(0, portIndex));
+                        int port = Integer.valueOf(line.substring(portIndex + 1));
+                        for (InetAddress inetAddress : inetAddresses) {
+                            streamSet.add(new NetworkAddress.Builder().ip(inetAddress).port(port).stream(stream).build());
+                        }
+                    }
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    LOG.warn(e.getMessage(), e);
+                }
+            }
+            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                for (Map.Entry<Long, Set<NetworkAddress>> e : result.entrySet()) {
+                    LOG.debug("Stream " + e.getKey() + ": loaded " + e.getValue().size() + " bootstrap nodes.");
+                }
+            }
+            return result;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+}

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/utils/Bytes.java

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ package ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils;
  * situations.
  */
 public class Bytes {
+    public static final byte BYTE_0x80 = (byte) 0x80;
+
     public static void inc(byte[] nonce) {
         for (int i = nonce.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
             nonce[i]++;
@@ -82,11 +84,7 @@ public class Bytes {
     }
 
     private static boolean lt(byte a, byte b) {
-        if (a < 0) return b < 0 && a < b;
+        return (a ^ BYTE_0x80) < (b ^ BYTE_0x80);
-        if (b < 0) return a >= 0 || a < b;
-        return a < b;
-        // This would be easier to understand, but is (slightly) slower:
-        // return (a & 0xff) < (b & 0xff);
     }
 
     /**

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/utils/Decode.java

@@ -27,30 +27,29 @@ import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.AccessCounter.inc;
  * https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Protocol_specification#Common_structures
  */
 public class Decode {
-    public static byte[] shortVarBytes(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static byte[] shortVarBytes(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
-        int length = uint16(stream, counter);
+        int length = uint16(in, counter);
-        return bytes(stream, length, counter);
+        return bytes(in, length, counter);
     }
 
-    public static byte[] varBytes(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static byte[] varBytes(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        int length = (int) varInt(stream, null);
+        return varBytes(in, null);
-        return bytes(stream, length, null);
     }
 
-    public static byte[] varBytes(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static byte[] varBytes(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
-        int length = (int) varInt(stream, counter);
+        int length = (int) varInt(in, counter);
-        return bytes(stream, length, counter);
+        return bytes(in, length, counter);
     }
 
-    public static byte[] bytes(InputStream stream, int count) throws IOException {
+    public static byte[] bytes(InputStream in, int count) throws IOException {
-        return bytes(stream, count, null);
+        return bytes(in, count, null);
     }
 
-    public static byte[] bytes(InputStream stream, int count, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static byte[] bytes(InputStream in, int count, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
         byte[] result = new byte[count];
         int off = 0;
         while (off < count) {
-            int read = stream.read(result, off, count - off);
+            int read = in.read(result, off, count - off);
             if (read < 0) {
                 throw new IOException("Unexpected end of stream, wanted to read " + count + " bytes but only got " + off);
             }
@@ -60,83 +59,94 @@ public class Decode {
         return result;
     }
 
-    public static long[] varIntList(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static long[] varIntList(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        int length = (int) varInt(stream);
+        int length = (int) varInt(in);
         long[] result = new long[length];
 
         for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
-            result[i] = varInt(stream);
+            result[i] = varInt(in);
         }
         return result;
     }
 
-    public static long varInt(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static long varInt(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        return varInt(stream, null);
+        return varInt(in, null);
     }
 
-    public static long varInt(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static long varInt(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
-        int first = stream.read();
+        int first = in.read();
         inc(counter);
         switch (first) {
             case 0xfd:
-                return uint16(stream, counter);
+                return uint16(in, counter);
             case 0xfe:
-                return uint32(stream, counter);
+                return uint32(in, counter);
             case 0xff:
-                return int64(stream, counter);
+                return int64(in, counter);
             default:
                 return first;
         }
     }
 
-    public static int uint8(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static int uint8(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        return stream.read();
+        return in.read();
     }
 
-    public static int uint16(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static int uint16(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        return uint16(stream, null);
+        return uint16(in, null);
     }
 
-    public static int uint16(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static int uint16(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
         inc(counter, 2);
-        return stream.read() * 256 + stream.read();
+        return in.read() << 8 | in.read();
     }
 
-    public static long uint32(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static long uint32(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        return uint32(stream, null);
+        return uint32(in, null);
     }
 
-    public static long uint32(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static long uint32(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
         inc(counter, 4);
-        return stream.read() * 16777216L + stream.read() * 65536L + stream.read() * 256L + stream.read();
+        return in.read() << 24 | in.read() << 16 | in.read() << 8 | in.read();
     }
 
-    public static int int32(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static long uint32(ByteBuffer in) {
-        return int32(stream, null);
+        return u(in.get()) << 24 | u(in.get()) << 16 | u(in.get()) << 8 | u(in.get());
     }
 
-    public static int int32(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static int int32(InputStream in) throws IOException {
+        return int32(in, null);
+    }
+
+    public static int int32(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
         inc(counter, 4);
-        return ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes(stream, 4)).getInt();
+        return ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes(in, 4)).getInt();
     }
 
-    public static long int64(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static long int64(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        return int64(stream, null);
+        return int64(in, null);
     }
 
-    public static long int64(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static long int64(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
         inc(counter, 8);
-        return ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes(stream, 8)).getLong();
+        return ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes(in, 8)).getLong();
     }
 
-    public static String varString(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+    public static String varString(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-        return varString(stream, null);
+        return varString(in, null);
     }
 
-    public static String varString(InputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
+    public static String varString(InputStream in, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
-        int length = (int) varInt(stream, counter);
+        int length = (int) varInt(in, counter);
         // FIXME: technically, it says the length in characters, but I think this one might be correct
         // otherwise it will get complicated, as we'll need to read UTF-8 char by char...
-        return new String(bytes(stream, length, counter), "utf-8");
+        return new String(bytes(in, length, counter), "utf-8");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the given byte as if it were unsigned.
+     */
+    private static int u(byte b) {
+        return b & 0xFF;
     }
 }

core/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/utils/Encode.java

@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@
 package ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils;
 
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Streamable;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.ApplicationException;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.nio.Buffer;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.AccessCounter.inc;
@@ -37,62 +40,52 @@ public class Encode {
         }
     }
 
+    public static void varIntList(long[] values, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        varInt(values.length, buffer);
+        for (long value : values) {
+            varInt(value, buffer);
+        }
+    }
+
     public static void varInt(long value, OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
         varInt(value, stream, null);
     }
 
-    public static byte[] varInt(long value) throws IOException {
+    public static void varInt(long value, ByteBuffer buffer) {
-        final byte[] result;
         if (value < 0) {
             // This is due to the fact that Java doesn't really support unsigned values.
             // Please be aware that this might be an error due to a smaller negative value being cast to long.
-            // Normally, negative values shouldn't occur within the protocol, and I large enough longs
+            // Normally, negative values shouldn't occur within the protocol, and longs large enough for being
-            // to being recognized as negatives aren't realistic.
+            // recognized as negatives aren't realistic.
-            ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(9);
             buffer.put((byte) 0xff);
-            result = buffer.putLong(value).array();
+            buffer.putLong(value);
         } else if (value < 0xfd) {
-            result = new byte[]{(byte) value};
+            buffer.put((byte) value);
         } else if (value <= 0xffffL) {
-            ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(3);
             buffer.put((byte) 0xfd);
-            result = buffer.putShort((short) value).array();
+            buffer.putShort((short) value);
         } else if (value <= 0xffffffffL) {
-            ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(5);
             buffer.put((byte) 0xfe);
-            result = buffer.putInt((int) value).array();
+            buffer.putInt((int) value);
         } else {
-            ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(9);
             buffer.put((byte) 0xff);
-            result = buffer.putLong(value).array();
+            buffer.putLong(value);
         }
-        return result;
+    }
+
+    public static byte[] varInt(long value) {
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(9);
+        varInt(value, buffer);
+        buffer.flip();
+        return Bytes.truncate(buffer.array(), buffer.limit());
     }
 
     public static void varInt(long value, OutputStream stream, AccessCounter counter) throws IOException {
-        if (value < 0) {
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(9);
-            // This is due to the fact that Java doesn't really support unsigned values.
+        varInt(value, buffer);
-            // Please be aware that this might be an error due to a smaller negative value being cast to long.
+        buffer.flip();
-            // Normally, negative values shouldn't occur within the protocol, and I large enough longs
+        stream.write(buffer.array(), 0, buffer.limit());
-            // to being recognized as negatives aren't realistic.
+        inc(counter, buffer.limit());
-            stream.write(0xff);
-            inc(counter);
-            int64(value, stream, counter);
-        } else if (value < 0xfd) {
-            int8(value, stream, counter);
-        } else if (value <= 0xffffL) {
-            stream.write(0xfd);
-            inc(counter);
-            int16(value, stream, counter);
-        } else if (value <= 0xffffffffL) {
-            stream.write(0xfe);
-            inc(counter);
-            int32(value, stream, counter);
-        } else {
-            stream.write(0xff);
-            inc(counter);
-            int64(value, stream, counter);
-        }
     }
 
     public static void int8(long value, OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
@@ -113,6 +106,10 @@ public class Encode {
         inc(counter, 2);
     }
 
+    public static void int16(long value, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.putShort((short) value);
+    }
+
     public static void int32(long value, OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
         int32(value, stream, null);
     }
@@ -122,6 +119,10 @@ public class Encode {
         inc(counter, 4);
     }
 
+    public static void int32(long value, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.putInt((int) value);
+    }
+
     public static void int64(long value, OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
         int64(value, stream, null);
     }
@@ -131,6 +132,10 @@ public class Encode {
         inc(counter, 8);
     }
 
+    public static void int64(long value, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.putLong(value);
+    }
+
     public static void varString(String value, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         byte[] bytes = value.getBytes("utf-8");
         // Technically, it says the length in characters, but I think this one might be correct.
@@ -140,23 +145,44 @@ public class Encode {
         out.write(bytes);
     }
 
+    public static void varString(String value, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        try {
+            byte[] bytes = value.getBytes("utf-8");
+            // Technically, it says the length in characters, but I think this one might be correct.
+            // It doesn't really matter, as only ASCII characters are being used.
+            // see also Decode#varString()
+            buffer.put(varInt(bytes.length));
+            buffer.put(bytes);
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
     public static void varBytes(byte[] data, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         varInt(data.length, out);
         out.write(data);
     }
 
+    public static void varBytes(byte[] data, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        varInt(data.length, buffer);
+        buffer.put(data);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Serializes a {@link Streamable} object and returns the byte array.
      *
      * @param streamable the object to be serialized
      * @return an array of bytes representing the given streamable object.
-     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.
      */
-    public static byte[] bytes(Streamable streamable) throws IOException {
+    public static byte[] bytes(Streamable streamable) {
         if (streamable == null) return null;
 
         ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-        streamable.write(stream);
+        try {
+            streamable.write(stream);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
         return stream.toByteArray();
     }
 
@@ -164,11 +190,14 @@ public class Encode {
      * @param streamable the object to be serialized
      * @param padding    the result will be padded such that its length is a multiple of <em>padding</em>
      * @return the bytes of the given {@link Streamable} object, 0-padded such that the final length is x*padding.
-     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.
      */
-    public static byte[] bytes(Streamable streamable, int padding) throws IOException {
+    public static byte[] bytes(Streamable streamable, int padding) {
         ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-        streamable.write(stream);
+        try {
+            streamable.write(stream);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
         int offset = padding - stream.size() % padding;
         int length = stream.size() + offset;
         byte[] result = new byte[length];

core/src/main/resources/nodes.txt

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ bootstrap8080.bitmessage.org:8080
 bootstrap8444.bitmessage.org:8444
 
 [stream 2]
-# none yet
+# none yet

core/src/test/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/DefaultMessageListenerTest.java

@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ public class DefaultMessageListenerTest extends TestBase {
         when(ctx.getNetworkHandler()).thenReturn(networkHandler);
         when(ctx.getLabeler()).thenReturn(mock(Labeler.class));
 
-        listener = new DefaultMessageListener(ctx, mock(Labeler.class), mock(BitmessageContext.Listener.class));
+        listener = new DefaultMessageListener(mock(Labeler.class), mock(BitmessageContext.Listener.class));
+        when(ctx.getNetworkListener()).thenReturn(listener);
+        listener.setContext(ctx);
     }
 
     @Test

core/src/test/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ProofOfWorkServiceTest.java

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ public class ProofOfWorkServiceTest {
         when(ctx.getNetworkHandler()).thenReturn(networkHandler);
         when(ctx.getMessageRepository()).thenReturn(messageRepo);
         when(ctx.getLabeler()).thenReturn(mock(Labeler.class));
+        when(ctx.getNetworkListener()).thenReturn(mock(NetworkHandler.MessageListener.class));
 
         proofOfWorkService = new ProofOfWorkService();
         proofOfWorkService.setContext(ctx);
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ public class ProofOfWorkServiceTest {
         proofOfWorkService.doMissingProofOfWork(10);
 
         verify(cryptography, timeout(1000)).doProofOfWork((ObjectMessage) isNull(), eq(1001L), eq(1002L),
-                any(ProofOfWorkEngine.Callback.class));
+            any(ProofOfWorkEngine.Callback.class));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -89,8 +90,8 @@ public class ProofOfWorkServiceTest {
         BitmessageAddress address = TestUtils.loadContact();
         Plaintext plaintext = new Plaintext.Builder(MSG).from(identity).to(address).message("", "").build();
         ObjectMessage object = new ObjectMessage.Builder()
-                .payload(new Msg(plaintext))
+            .payload(new Msg(plaintext))
-                .build();
+            .build();
         object.sign(identity.getPrivateKey());
         object.encrypt(address.getPubkey());
         byte[] initialHash = new byte[64];

core/src/test/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/ports/NodeRegistryTest.java

@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2016 Christian Basler
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports;
-
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime;
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-import java.util.Arrays;
-
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime.HOUR;
-import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
-
-public class NodeRegistryTest {
-    private NodeRegistry registry = new MemoryNodeRegistry();
-
-    @Test
-    public void ensureGetKnownNodesWithoutStreamsYieldsEmpty() {
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10), empty());
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Please note that this test fails if there is no internet connection,
-     * as the initial nodes' IP addresses are determined by DNS lookup.
-     */
-    @Test
-    public void ensureGetKnownNodesForStream1YieldsResult() {
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10, 1), hasSize(1));
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void ensureNodeIsStored() {
-        registry.offerAddresses(Arrays.asList(
-                new NetworkAddress.Builder()
-                        .ipv4(127, 0, 0, 1)
-                        .port(42)
-                        .stream(1)
-                        .time(UnixTime.now())
-                        .build(),
-                new NetworkAddress.Builder()
-                        .ipv4(127, 0, 0, 2)
-                        .port(42)
-                        .stream(1)
-                        .time(UnixTime.now())
-                        .build(),
-                new NetworkAddress.Builder()
-                        .ipv4(127, 0, 0, 2)
-                        .port(42)
-                        .stream(2)
-                        .time(UnixTime.now())
-                        .build()
-        ));
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10, 1).size(), is(2));
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10, 2).size(), is(1));
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10, 1, 2).size(), is(3));
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void ensureOldNodesAreRemoved() {
-        registry.offerAddresses(Arrays.asList(
-                new NetworkAddress.Builder()
-                        .ipv4(127, 0, 0, 1)
-                        .port(42)
-                        .stream(1)
-                        .time(UnixTime.now())
-                        .build(),
-                new NetworkAddress.Builder()
-                        .ipv4(127, 0, 0, 2)
-                        .port(42)
-                        .stream(1)
-                        .time(UnixTime.now(-4 * HOUR))
-                        .build(),
-                new NetworkAddress.Builder()
-                        .ipv4(127, 0, 0, 2)
-                        .port(42)
-                        .stream(2)
-                        .time(UnixTime.now())
-                        .build()
-        ));
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10, 1).size(), is(1));
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10, 2).size(), is(1));
-        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10, 1, 2).size(), is(2));
-    }
-}

cryptography-bc/build.gradle

@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ uploadArchives {
 dependencies {
     compile project(':core')
     compile 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on:1.52'
-    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
+    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
     testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
 }

cryptography-sc/build.gradle

@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ uploadArchives {
 dependencies {
     compile project(':core')
     compile 'com.madgag.spongycastle:prov:1.52.0.0'
-    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
+    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
 }

demo/build.gradle

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ dependencies {
     compile project(':wif')
     compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.12'
     compile 'args4j:args4j:2.32'
-    compile 'com.h2database:h2:1.4.190'
+    compile 'com.h2database:h2:1.4.192'
     compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.4'
-    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
+    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
     testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
 }

demo/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/demo/Application.java

@@ -17,14 +17,10 @@
 package ch.dissem.bitmessage.demo;
 
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.BitmessageContext;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.cryptography.bc.BouncyCryptography;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.BitmessageAddress;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Plaintext;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.payload.Pubkey;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.Label;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.DefaultNetworkHandler;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.MemoryNodeRegistry;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.repository.*;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.text.WordUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -45,19 +41,10 @@ public class Application {
 
     private BitmessageContext ctx;
 
-    public Application(InetAddress syncServer, int syncPort) {
+    public Application(BitmessageContext.Builder ctxBuilder, InetAddress syncServer, int syncPort) {
-        JdbcConfig jdbcConfig = new JdbcConfig();
+        ctx = ctxBuilder
-        ctx = new BitmessageContext.Builder()
+            .listener(plaintext -> System.out.println("New Message from " + plaintext.getFrom() + ": " + plaintext.getSubject()))
-                .addressRepo(new JdbcAddressRepository(jdbcConfig))
+            .build();
-                .inventory(new JdbcInventory(jdbcConfig))
-                .nodeRegistry(new MemoryNodeRegistry())
-                .messageRepo(new JdbcMessageRepository(jdbcConfig))
-                .powRepo(new JdbcProofOfWorkRepository(jdbcConfig))
-                .networkHandler(new DefaultNetworkHandler())
-                .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
-                .port(48444)
-                .listener(plaintext -> System.out.println("New Message from " + plaintext.getFrom() + ": " + plaintext.getSubject()))
-                .build();
 
         if (syncServer == null) {
             ctx.startup();
@@ -392,7 +379,7 @@ public class Application {
         System.out.println(WordUtils.wrap(message.getText(), 120));
         System.out.println();
         System.out.println(message.getLabels().stream().map(Label::toString).collect(
-                Collectors.joining(", ", "Labels: ", "")));
+            Collectors.joining(", ", "Labels: ", "")));
         System.out.println();
         ctx.labeler().markAsRead(message);
         ctx.messages().save(message);

demo/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/demo/Main.java

@@ -18,20 +18,28 @@ package ch.dissem.bitmessage.demo;
 
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.BitmessageContext;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.cryptography.bc.BouncyCryptography;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.DefaultNetworkHandler;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.MemoryNodeRegistry;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.nio.NioNetworkHandler;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NodeRegistry;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.repository.*;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.wif.WifExporter;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.wif.WifImporter;
 import org.kohsuke.args4j.CmdLineException;
 import org.kohsuke.args4j.CmdLineParser;
 import org.kohsuke.args4j.Option;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 public class Main {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Main.class);
+
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
         if (System.getProperty("org.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel") == null)
             System.setProperty("org.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel", "ERROR");
@@ -45,18 +53,39 @@ public class Main {
         } catch (CmdLineException e) {
             parser.printUsage(System.err);
         }
+
+        JdbcConfig jdbcConfig = new JdbcConfig();
+        BitmessageContext.Builder ctxBuilder = new BitmessageContext.Builder()
+            .addressRepo(new JdbcAddressRepository(jdbcConfig))
+            .inventory(new JdbcInventory(jdbcConfig))
+            .messageRepo(new JdbcMessageRepository(jdbcConfig))
+            .powRepo(new JdbcProofOfWorkRepository(jdbcConfig))
+            .networkHandler(new NioNetworkHandler())
+            .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
+            .port(48444);
+        if (options.localPort != null) {
+            ctxBuilder.nodeRegistry(new NodeRegistry() {
+                @Override
+                public List<NetworkAddress> getKnownAddresses(int limit, long... streams) {
+                    return Arrays.stream(streams)
+                        .mapToObj(s -> new NetworkAddress.Builder()
+                            .ipv4(127, 0, 0, 1)
+                            .port(options.localPort)
+                            .stream(s).build())
+                        .collect(Collectors.toList());
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void offerAddresses(List<NetworkAddress> addresses) {
+                    LOG.info("Local node registry ignored offered addresses: " + addresses);
+                }
+            });
+        } else {
+            ctxBuilder.nodeRegistry(new JdbcNodeRegistry(jdbcConfig));
+        }
+
         if (options.exportWIF != null || options.importWIF != null) {
-            JdbcConfig jdbcConfig = new JdbcConfig();
+            BitmessageContext ctx = ctxBuilder.build();
-            BitmessageContext ctx = new BitmessageContext.Builder()
-                    .addressRepo(new JdbcAddressRepository(jdbcConfig))
-                    .inventory(new JdbcInventory(jdbcConfig))
-                    .nodeRegistry(new MemoryNodeRegistry())
-                    .messageRepo(new JdbcMessageRepository(jdbcConfig))
-                    .powRepo(new JdbcProofOfWorkRepository(jdbcConfig))
-                    .networkHandler(new DefaultNetworkHandler())
-                    .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
-                    .port(48444)
-                    .build();
 
             if (options.exportWIF != null) {
                 new WifExporter(ctx).addAll().write(options.exportWIF);
@@ -66,11 +95,14 @@ public class Main {
             }
         } else {
             InetAddress syncServer = options.syncServer == null ? null : InetAddress.getByName(options.syncServer);
-            new Application(syncServer, options.syncPort);
+            new Application(ctxBuilder, syncServer, options.syncPort);
         }
     }
 
     private static class CmdLineOptions {
+        @Option(name = "-local", usage = "Connect to local Bitmessage client on given port, instead of the usual connections from node.txt")
+        private Integer localPort;
+
         @Option(name = "-import", usage = "Import from keys.dat or other WIF file.")
         private File importWIF;
 

demo/src/test/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/SystemTest.java

@@ -4,17 +4,23 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.cryptography.bc.BouncyCryptography;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.BitmessageAddress;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Plaintext;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.DefaultNetworkHandler;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.nio.NioNetworkHandler;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.DefaultLabeler;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.Labeler;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.repository.*;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.TTL;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
 import org.mockito.Mockito;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
@@ -27,8 +33,11 @@ import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
 /**
  * @author Christian Basler
  */
+@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
 public class SystemTest {
     private static int port = 6000;
+    private final NetworkHandler aliceNetworkHandler;
+    private final NetworkHandler bobNetworkHandler;
 
     private BitmessageContext alice;
     private TestListener aliceListener = new TestListener();
@@ -39,6 +48,19 @@ public class SystemTest {
     private TestListener bobListener = new TestListener();
     private BitmessageAddress bobIdentity;
 
+    public SystemTest(NetworkHandler peer, NetworkHandler node) {
+        this.aliceNetworkHandler = peer;
+        this.bobNetworkHandler = node;
+    }
+
+    @Parameterized.Parameters
+    public static List<Object[]> parameters() {
+        return Arrays.asList(new Object[][]{
+                {new NioNetworkHandler(), new DefaultNetworkHandler()},
+                {new NioNetworkHandler(), new NioNetworkHandler()}
+        });
+    }
+
     @Before
     public void setUp() {
         int alicePort = port++;
@@ -54,7 +76,7 @@ public class SystemTest {
                 .powRepo(new JdbcProofOfWorkRepository(aliceDB))
                 .port(alicePort)
                 .nodeRegistry(new TestNodeRegistry(bobPort))
-                .networkHandler(new DefaultNetworkHandler())
+                .networkHandler(aliceNetworkHandler)
                 .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
                 .listener(aliceListener)
                 .labeler(aliceLabeler)
@@ -70,7 +92,7 @@ public class SystemTest {
                 .powRepo(new JdbcProofOfWorkRepository(bobDB))
                 .port(bobPort)
                 .nodeRegistry(new TestNodeRegistry(alicePort))
-                .networkHandler(new DefaultNetworkHandler())
+                .networkHandler(bobNetworkHandler)
                 .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
                 .listener(bobListener)
                 .labeler(new DebugLabeler("Bob"))
@@ -88,7 +110,7 @@ public class SystemTest {
         bob.shutdown();
     }
 
-    @Test
+    @Test(timeout = 60_000)
     public void ensureAliceCanSendMessageToBob() throws Exception {
         String originalMessage = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
         alice.send(aliceIdentity, new BitmessageAddress(bobIdentity.getAddress()), "Subject", originalMessage);
@@ -102,7 +124,7 @@ public class SystemTest {
                 .markAsAcknowledged(any());
     }
 
-    @Test
+    @Test(timeout = 30_000)
     public void ensureBobCanReceiveBroadcastFromAlice() throws Exception {
         String originalMessage = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
         bob.addSubscribtion(new BitmessageAddress(aliceIdentity.getAddress()));

extensions/build.gradle

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ uploadArchives {
 
 dependencies {
     compile project(':core')
-    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
+    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
     testCompile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.12'
     testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
     testCompile project(path: ':core', configuration: 'testArtifacts')

extensions/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/extensions/pow/ProofOfWorkRequest.java

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Encode;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Decode.*;
@@ -83,6 +84,13 @@ public class ProofOfWorkRequest implements Streamable {
         Encode.varBytes(data, out);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        buffer.put(initialHash);
+        Encode.varString(request.name(), buffer);
+        Encode.varBytes(data, buffer);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public boolean equals(Object o) {
         if (this == o) return true;

networking/build.gradle

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ uploadArchives {
 
 dependencies {
     compile project(':core')
-    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
+    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
     testCompile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.12'
     testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
     testCompile project(path: ':core', configuration: 'testArtifacts')

networking/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/AbstractConnection.java

@@ -0,0 +1,343 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Christian Basler
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking;
+
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.BitmessageContext;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.*;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.InventoryVector;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.InsufficientProofOfWorkException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.NodeException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedDeque;
+
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext.NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext.NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.SERVER;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.SYNC;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.State.*;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Singleton.cryptography;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime.MINUTE;
+
+/**
+ * Contains everything used by both the old streams-oriented NetworkHandler and the new NioNetworkHandler,
+ * respectively their connection objects.
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractConnection {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AbstractConnection.class);
+    protected final InternalContext ctx;
+    protected final Mode mode;
+    protected final NetworkAddress host;
+    protected final NetworkAddress node;
+    protected final NetworkHandler.MessageListener listener;
+    protected final Map<InventoryVector, Long> ivCache;
+    protected final Deque<MessagePayload> sendingQueue;
+    protected final Set<InventoryVector> commonRequestedObjects;
+    protected final Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjects;
+
+    protected volatile State state;
+    protected long lastObjectTime;
+
+    private final long syncTimeout;
+    private long syncReadTimeout = Long.MAX_VALUE;
+
+    protected long peerNonce;
+    protected int version;
+    protected long[] streams;
+    private boolean verackSent;
+    private boolean verackReceived;
+
+    public AbstractConnection(InternalContext context, Mode mode,
+                              NetworkAddress node,
+                              Set<InventoryVector> commonRequestedObjects,
+                              long syncTimeout) {
+        this.ctx = context;
+        this.mode = mode;
+        this.host = new NetworkAddress.Builder().ipv6(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0).port(0).build();
+        this.node = node;
+        this.listener = context.getNetworkListener();
+        this.syncTimeout = (syncTimeout > 0 ? UnixTime.now(+syncTimeout) : 0);
+        this.requestedObjects = Collections.newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap<InventoryVector, Boolean>(10_000));
+        this.ivCache = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+        this.sendingQueue = new ConcurrentLinkedDeque<>();
+        this.state = CONNECTING;
+        this.commonRequestedObjects = commonRequestedObjects;
+    }
+
+    public Mode getMode() {
+        return mode;
+    }
+
+    public NetworkAddress getNode() {
+        return node;
+    }
+
+    public State getState() {
+        return state;
+    }
+
+    public long[] getStreams() {
+        return streams;
+    }
+
+    protected void handleMessage(MessagePayload payload) {
+        switch (state) {
+            case ACTIVE:
+                receiveMessage(payload);
+                break;
+
+            case DISCONNECTED:
+                break;
+
+            default:
+                handleCommand(payload);
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void receiveMessage(MessagePayload messagePayload) {
+        switch (messagePayload.getCommand()) {
+            case INV:
+                receiveMessage((Inv) messagePayload);
+                break;
+            case GETDATA:
+                receiveMessage((GetData) messagePayload);
+                break;
+            case OBJECT:
+                receiveMessage((ObjectMessage) messagePayload);
+                break;
+            case ADDR:
+                receiveMessage((Addr) messagePayload);
+                break;
+            case CUSTOM:
+            case VERACK:
+            case VERSION:
+            default:
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpectedly received '" + messagePayload.getCommand() + "' command");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void receiveMessage(Inv inv) {
+        int originalSize = inv.getInventory().size();
+        updateIvCache(inv.getInventory());
+        List<InventoryVector> missing = ctx.getInventory().getMissing(inv.getInventory(), streams);
+        missing.removeAll(commonRequestedObjects);
+        LOG.trace("Received inventory with " + originalSize + " elements, of which are "
+            + missing.size() + " missing.");
+        send(new GetData.Builder().inventory(missing).build());
+    }
+
+    private void receiveMessage(GetData getData) {
+        for (InventoryVector iv : getData.getInventory()) {
+            ObjectMessage om = ctx.getInventory().getObject(iv);
+            if (om != null) sendingQueue.offer(om);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void receiveMessage(ObjectMessage objectMessage) {
+        requestedObjects.remove(objectMessage.getInventoryVector());
+        if (ctx.getInventory().contains(objectMessage)) {
+            LOG.trace("Received object " + objectMessage.getInventoryVector() + " - already in inventory");
+            return;
+        }
+        try {
+            listener.receive(objectMessage);
+            cryptography().checkProofOfWork(objectMessage, NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE, NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES);
+            ctx.getInventory().storeObject(objectMessage);
+            // offer object to some random nodes so it gets distributed throughout the network:
+            ctx.getNetworkHandler().offer(objectMessage.getInventoryVector());
+            lastObjectTime = UnixTime.now();
+        } catch (InsufficientProofOfWorkException e) {
+            LOG.warn(e.getMessage());
+            // DebugUtils.saveToFile(objectMessage); // this line must not be committed active
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOG.error("Stream " + objectMessage.getStream() + ", object type " + objectMessage.getType() + ": " + e.getMessage(), e);
+        } finally {
+            if (!commonRequestedObjects.remove(objectMessage.getInventoryVector())) {
+                LOG.debug("Received object that wasn't requested.");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void receiveMessage(Addr addr) {
+        LOG.trace("Received " + addr.getAddresses().size() + " addresses.");
+        ctx.getNodeRegistry().offerAddresses(addr.getAddresses());
+    }
+
+    private void updateIvCache(List<InventoryVector> inventory) {
+        cleanupIvCache();
+        Long now = UnixTime.now();
+        for (InventoryVector iv : inventory) {
+            ivCache.put(iv, now);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void offer(InventoryVector iv) {
+        sendingQueue.offer(new Inv.Builder()
+            .addInventoryVector(iv)
+            .build());
+        updateIvCache(Collections.singletonList(iv));
+    }
+
+    public boolean knowsOf(InventoryVector iv) {
+        return ivCache.containsKey(iv);
+    }
+
+    private void cleanupIvCache() {
+        Long fiveMinutesAgo = UnixTime.now(-5 * MINUTE);
+        for (Map.Entry<InventoryVector, Long> entry : ivCache.entrySet()) {
+            if (entry.getValue() < fiveMinutesAgo) {
+                ivCache.remove(entry.getKey());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void handleCommand(MessagePayload payload) {
+        switch (payload.getCommand()) {
+            case VERSION:
+                handleVersion((Version) payload);
+                break;
+            case VERACK:
+                if (verackSent) {
+                    activateConnection();
+                }
+                verackReceived = true;
+                break;
+            case CUSTOM:
+                MessagePayload response = ctx.getCustomCommandHandler().handle((CustomMessage) payload);
+                if (response == null) {
+                    disconnect();
+                } else {
+                    send(response);
+                }
+                break;
+            default:
+                throw new NodeException("Command 'version' or 'verack' expected, but was '"
+                    + payload.getCommand() + "'");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void activateConnection() {
+        LOG.info("Successfully established connection with node " + node);
+        state = ACTIVE;
+        node.setTime(UnixTime.now());
+        if (mode != SYNC) {
+            sendAddresses();
+            ctx.getNodeRegistry().offerAddresses(Collections.singletonList(node));
+        }
+        sendInventory();
+    }
+
+    private void sendAddresses() {
+        List<NetworkAddress> addresses = ctx.getNodeRegistry().getKnownAddresses(1000, streams);
+        sendingQueue.offer(new Addr.Builder().addresses(addresses).build());
+    }
+
+    private void sendInventory() {
+        List<InventoryVector> inventory = ctx.getInventory().getInventory(streams);
+        for (int i = 0; i < inventory.size(); i += 50000) {
+            sendingQueue.offer(new Inv.Builder()
+                .inventory(inventory.subList(i, Math.min(inventory.size(), i + 50000)))
+                .build());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void handleVersion(Version version) {
+        if (version.getNonce() == ctx.getClientNonce()) {
+            LOG.info("Tried to connect to self, disconnecting.");
+            disconnect();
+        } else if (version.getVersion() >= BitmessageContext.CURRENT_VERSION) {
+            this.peerNonce = version.getNonce();
+            if (peerNonce == ctx.getClientNonce()) disconnect();
+
+            this.version = version.getVersion();
+            this.streams = version.getStreams();
+            verackSent = true;
+            send(new VerAck());
+            if (mode == SERVER) {
+                send(new Version.Builder().defaults(ctx.getClientNonce()).addrFrom(host).addrRecv(node).build());
+            }
+            if (verackReceived) {
+                activateConnection();
+            }
+        } else {
+            LOG.info("Received unsupported version " + version.getVersion() + ", disconnecting.");
+            disconnect();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("RedundantIfStatement")
+    protected boolean syncFinished(NetworkMessage msg) {
+        if (mode != SYNC) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (Thread.interrupted()) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (state != ACTIVE) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (syncTimeout < UnixTime.now()) {
+            LOG.info("Synchronization timed out");
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (!sendingQueue.isEmpty()) {
+            syncReadTimeout = System.currentTimeMillis() + 1000;
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (msg == null) {
+            return syncReadTimeout < System.currentTimeMillis();
+        } else {
+            syncReadTimeout = System.currentTimeMillis() + 1000;
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void disconnect() {
+        state = DISCONNECTED;
+
+        // Make sure objects that are still missing are requested from other nodes
+        ctx.getNetworkHandler().request(requestedObjects);
+    }
+
+    protected abstract void send(MessagePayload payload);
+
+    public enum Mode {SERVER, CLIENT, SYNC}
+
+    public enum State {CONNECTING, ACTIVE, DISCONNECTED}
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object o) {
+        if (this == o) return true;
+        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
+        AbstractConnection that = (AbstractConnection) o;
+        return Objects.equals(node, that.node);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return Objects.hash(node);
+    }
+}

networking/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/Connection.java

@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@
 
 package ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking;
 
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.BitmessageContext;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.*;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.GetData;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.MessagePayload;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.NetworkMessage;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Version;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.InventoryVector;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.InsufficientProofOfWorkException;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.NodeException;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.factory.Factory;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler.MessageListener;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime;
@@ -36,94 +36,59 @@ import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.net.Socket;
 import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
-import java.util.*;
+import java.util.HashSet;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+import java.util.Objects;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedDeque;
+import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext.NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.CLIENT;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext.NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.SYNC;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.Connection.Mode.CLIENT;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.State.ACTIVE;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.Connection.Mode.SYNC;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.State.DISCONNECTED;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.Connection.State.*;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Singleton.cryptography;
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime.MINUTE;
 
 /**
  * A connection to a specific node
  */
-class Connection {
+class Connection extends AbstractConnection {
     public static final int READ_TIMEOUT = 2000;
     private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Connection.class);
     private static final int CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 5000;
 
     private final long startTime;
-    private final ConcurrentMap<InventoryVector, Long> ivCache;
-    private final InternalContext ctx;
-    private final Mode mode;
     private final Socket socket;
-    private final MessageListener listener;
-    private final NetworkAddress host;
-    private final NetworkAddress node;
-    private final Queue<MessagePayload> sendingQueue = new ConcurrentLinkedDeque<>();
-    private final Set<InventoryVector> commonRequestedObjects;
-    private final Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjects;
-    private final long syncTimeout;
     private final ReaderRunnable reader = new ReaderRunnable();
     private final WriterRunnable writer = new WriterRunnable();
-    private final DefaultNetworkHandler networkHandler;
-    private final long clientNonce;
 
-    private volatile State state;
     private InputStream in;
     private OutputStream out;
-    private int version;
-    private long[] streams;
-    private int readTimeoutCounter;
     private boolean socketInitialized;
-    private long lastObjectTime;
 
-    public Connection(InternalContext context, Mode mode, Socket socket, MessageListener listener,
+    public Connection(InternalContext context, Mode mode, Socket socket,
-                      Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjectsMap, long clientNonce) throws IOException {
+                      Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjectsMap) throws IOException {
-        this(context, mode, listener, socket, requestedObjectsMap,
+        this(context, mode, socket, requestedObjectsMap,
-                Collections.newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap<InventoryVector, Boolean>(10_000)),
                 new NetworkAddress.Builder().ip(socket.getInetAddress()).port(socket.getPort()).stream(1).build(),
-                0, clientNonce);
+                0);
     }
 
-    public Connection(InternalContext context, Mode mode, NetworkAddress node, MessageListener listener,
+    public Connection(InternalContext context, Mode mode, NetworkAddress node,
-                      Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjectsMap, long clientNonce) {
+                      Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjectsMap) {
-        this(context, mode, listener, new Socket(), requestedObjectsMap,
+        this(context, mode, new Socket(), requestedObjectsMap,
-                Collections.newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap<InventoryVector, Boolean>(10_000)),
+                node, 0);
-                node, 0, clientNonce);
     }
 
-    private Connection(InternalContext context, Mode mode, MessageListener listener, Socket socket,
+    private Connection(InternalContext context, Mode mode, Socket socket,
-                       Set<InventoryVector> commonRequestedObjects, Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjects,
+                       Set<InventoryVector> commonRequestedObjects, NetworkAddress node, long syncTimeout) {
-                       NetworkAddress node, long syncTimeout, long clientNonce) {
+        super(context, mode, node, commonRequestedObjects, syncTimeout);
         this.startTime = UnixTime.now();
-        this.ctx = context;
-        this.mode = mode;
-        this.state = CONNECTING;
-        this.listener = listener;
         this.socket = socket;
-        this.commonRequestedObjects = commonRequestedObjects;
-        this.requestedObjects = requestedObjects;
-        this.host = new NetworkAddress.Builder().ipv6(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0).port(0).build();
-        this.node = node;
-        this.syncTimeout = (syncTimeout > 0 ? UnixTime.now(+syncTimeout) : 0);
-        this.ivCache = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
-        this.networkHandler = (DefaultNetworkHandler) ctx.getNetworkHandler();
-        this.clientNonce = clientNonce;
     }
 
     public static Connection sync(InternalContext ctx, InetAddress address, int port, MessageListener listener,
                                   long timeoutInSeconds) throws IOException {
-        return new Connection(ctx, SYNC, listener, new Socket(address, port),
+        return new Connection(ctx, SYNC, new Socket(address, port),
-                new HashSet<InventoryVector>(),
                 new HashSet<InventoryVector>(),
                 new NetworkAddress.Builder().ip(address).port(port).stream(1).build(),
-                timeoutInSeconds, cryptography().randomNonce());
+                timeoutInSeconds);
     }
 
     public long getStartTime() {
@@ -142,160 +107,8 @@ class Connection {
         return node;
     }
 
-    @SuppressWarnings("RedundantIfStatement")
+    @Override
-    private boolean syncFinished(NetworkMessage msg) {
+    protected void send(MessagePayload payload) {
-        if (mode != SYNC) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        if (Thread.interrupted()) {
-            return true;
-        }
-        if (state != ACTIVE) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        if (syncTimeout < UnixTime.now()) {
-            LOG.info("Synchronization timed out");
-            return true;
-        }
-        if (msg == null) {
-            if (requestedObjects.isEmpty() && sendingQueue.isEmpty())
-                return true;
-
-            readTimeoutCounter++;
-            return readTimeoutCounter > 1;
-        } else {
-            readTimeoutCounter = 0;
-            return false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void activateConnection() {
-        LOG.info("Successfully established connection with node " + node);
-        state = ACTIVE;
-        if (mode != SYNC) {
-            sendAddresses();
-            ctx.getNodeRegistry().offerAddresses(Collections.singletonList(node));
-        }
-        sendInventory();
-        node.setTime(UnixTime.now());
-    }
-
-    private void cleanupIvCache() {
-        Long fiveMinutesAgo = UnixTime.now(-5 * MINUTE);
-        for (Map.Entry<InventoryVector, Long> entry : ivCache.entrySet()) {
-            if (entry.getValue() < fiveMinutesAgo) {
-                ivCache.remove(entry.getKey());
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void updateIvCache(InventoryVector... inventory) {
-        cleanupIvCache();
-        Long now = UnixTime.now();
-        for (InventoryVector iv : inventory) {
-            ivCache.put(iv, now);
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void updateIvCache(List<InventoryVector> inventory) {
-        cleanupIvCache();
-        Long now = UnixTime.now();
-        for (InventoryVector iv : inventory) {
-            ivCache.put(iv, now);
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void receiveMessage(MessagePayload messagePayload) {
-        switch (messagePayload.getCommand()) {
-            case INV:
-                receiveMessage((Inv) messagePayload);
-                break;
-            case GETDATA:
-                receiveMessage((GetData) messagePayload);
-                break;
-            case OBJECT:
-                receiveMessage((ObjectMessage) messagePayload);
-                break;
-            case ADDR:
-                receiveMessage((Addr) messagePayload);
-                break;
-            case CUSTOM:
-            case VERACK:
-            case VERSION:
-            default:
-                throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpectedly received '" + messagePayload.getCommand() + "' command");
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void receiveMessage(Inv inv) {
-        int originalSize = inv.getInventory().size();
-        updateIvCache(inv.getInventory());
-        List<InventoryVector> missing = ctx.getInventory().getMissing(inv.getInventory(), streams);
-        missing.removeAll(commonRequestedObjects);
-        LOG.debug("Received inventory with " + originalSize + " elements, of which are "
-                + missing.size() + " missing.");
-        send(new GetData.Builder().inventory(missing).build());
-    }
-
-    private void receiveMessage(GetData getData) {
-        for (InventoryVector iv : getData.getInventory()) {
-            ObjectMessage om = ctx.getInventory().getObject(iv);
-            if (om != null) sendingQueue.offer(om);
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void receiveMessage(ObjectMessage objectMessage) {
-        requestedObjects.remove(objectMessage.getInventoryVector());
-        if (ctx.getInventory().contains(objectMessage)) {
-            LOG.trace("Received object " + objectMessage.getInventoryVector() + " - already in inventory");
-            return;
-        }
-        try {
-            listener.receive(objectMessage);
-            cryptography().checkProofOfWork(objectMessage, NETWORK_NONCE_TRIALS_PER_BYTE, NETWORK_EXTRA_BYTES);
-            ctx.getInventory().storeObject(objectMessage);
-            // offer object to some random nodes so it gets distributed throughout the network:
-            networkHandler.offer(objectMessage.getInventoryVector());
-            lastObjectTime = UnixTime.now();
-        } catch (InsufficientProofOfWorkException e) {
-            LOG.warn(e.getMessage());
-            // DebugUtils.saveToFile(objectMessage); // this line must not be committed active
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            LOG.error("Stream " + objectMessage.getStream() + ", object type " + objectMessage.getType() + ": " + e.getMessage(), e);
-        } finally {
-            if (commonRequestedObjects.remove(objectMessage.getInventoryVector())) {
-                LOG.debug("Received object that wasn't requested.");
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void receiveMessage(Addr addr) {
-        LOG.debug("Received " + addr.getAddresses().size() + " addresses.");
-        ctx.getNodeRegistry().offerAddresses(addr.getAddresses());
-    }
-
-    private void sendAddresses() {
-        List<NetworkAddress> addresses = ctx.getNodeRegistry().getKnownAddresses(1000, streams);
-        sendingQueue.offer(new Addr.Builder().addresses(addresses).build());
-    }
-
-    private void sendInventory() {
-        List<InventoryVector> inventory = ctx.getInventory().getInventory(streams);
-        for (int i = 0; i < inventory.size(); i += 50000) {
-            sendingQueue.offer(new Inv.Builder()
-                    .inventory(inventory.subList(i, Math.min(inventory.size(), i + 50000)))
-                    .build());
-        }
-    }
-
-    public void disconnect() {
-        state = DISCONNECTED;
-
-        // Make sure objects that are still missing are requested from other nodes
-        networkHandler.request(requestedObjects);
-    }
-
-    void send(MessagePayload payload) {
         try {
             if (payload instanceof GetData) {
                 requestedObjects.addAll(((GetData) payload).getInventory());
@@ -309,17 +122,6 @@ class Connection {
         }
     }
 
-    public void offer(InventoryVector iv) {
-        sendingQueue.offer(new Inv.Builder()
-                .addInventoryVector(iv)
-                .build());
-        updateIvCache(iv);
-    }
-
-    public boolean knowsOf(InventoryVector iv) {
-        return ivCache.containsKey(iv);
-    }
-
     @Override
     public boolean equals(Object o) {
         if (this == o) return true;
@@ -354,18 +156,13 @@ class Connection {
         return writer;
     }
 
-    public enum Mode {SERVER, CLIENT, SYNC}
-
-    public enum State {CONNECTING, ACTIVE, DISCONNECTED}
-
     public class ReaderRunnable implements Runnable {
         @Override
         public void run() {
-            lastObjectTime = 0;
             try (Socket socket = Connection.this.socket) {
                 initSocket(socket);
                 if (mode == CLIENT || mode == SYNC) {
-                    send(new Version.Builder().defaults(clientNonce).addrFrom(host).addrRecv(node).build());
+                    send(new Version.Builder().defaults(ctx.getClientNonce()).addrFrom(host).addrRecv(node).build());
                 }
                 while (state != DISCONNECTED) {
                     if (mode != SYNC) {
@@ -394,75 +191,13 @@ class Connection {
                 NetworkMessage msg = Factory.getNetworkMessage(version, in);
                 if (msg == null)
                     return;
-                switch (state) {
+                handleMessage(msg.getPayload());
-                    case ACTIVE:
-                        receiveMessage(msg.getPayload());
-                        break;
-
-                    default:
-                        handleCommand(msg.getPayload());
-                        break;
-                }
                 if (socket.isClosed() || syncFinished(msg) || checkOpenRequests()) disconnect();
             } catch (SocketTimeoutException ignore) {
                 if (state == ACTIVE && syncFinished(null)) disconnect();
             }
         }
 
-        private void handleCommand(MessagePayload payload) {
-            switch (payload.getCommand()) {
-                case VERSION:
-                    handleVersion((Version) payload);
-                    break;
-                case VERACK:
-                    switch (mode) {
-                        case SERVER:
-                            activateConnection();
-                            break;
-                        case CLIENT:
-                        case SYNC:
-                        default:
-                            // NO OP
-                            break;
-                    }
-                    break;
-                case CUSTOM:
-                    MessagePayload response = ctx.getCustomCommandHandler().handle((CustomMessage) payload);
-                    if (response != null) {
-                        send(response);
-                    }
-                    disconnect();
-                    break;
-                default:
-                    throw new NodeException("Command 'version' or 'verack' expected, but was '"
-                            + payload.getCommand() + "'");
-            }
-        }
-
-        private void handleVersion(Version version) {
-            if (version.getNonce() == ctx.getClientNonce()) {
-                LOG.info("Tried to connect to self, disconnecting.");
-                disconnect();
-            } else if (version.getVersion() >= BitmessageContext.CURRENT_VERSION) {
-                Connection.this.version = version.getVersion();
-                streams = version.getStreams();
-                send(new VerAck());
-                switch (mode) {
-                    case SERVER:
-                        send(new Version.Builder().defaults(clientNonce).addrFrom(host).addrRecv(node).build());
-                        break;
-                    case CLIENT:
-                    case SYNC:
-                        activateConnection();
-                        break;
-                    default:
-                        // NO OP
-                }
-            } else {
-                LOG.info("Received unsupported version " + version.getVersion() + ", disconnecting.");
-                disconnect();
-            }
-        }
     }
 
     private boolean checkOpenRequests() {

networking/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/ConnectionOrganizer.java

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.Connection.Mode.CLIENT;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.CLIENT;
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.DefaultNetworkHandler.NETWORK_MAGIC_NUMBER;
 
 /**
@@ -38,17 +38,14 @@ public class ConnectionOrganizer implements Runnable {
     private final InternalContext ctx;
     private final DefaultNetworkHandler networkHandler;
     private final NetworkHandler.MessageListener listener;
-    private final long clientNonce;
 
     private Connection initialConnection;
 
     public ConnectionOrganizer(InternalContext ctx,
-                               DefaultNetworkHandler networkHandler,
+                               DefaultNetworkHandler networkHandler) {
-                               NetworkHandler.MessageListener listener, long clientNonce) {
         this.ctx = ctx;
         this.networkHandler = networkHandler;
-        this.listener = listener;
+        this.listener = ctx.getNetworkListener();
-        this.clientNonce = clientNonce;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -93,8 +90,7 @@ public class ConnectionOrganizer implements Runnable {
                                 NETWORK_MAGIC_NUMBER - active, ctx.getStreams());
                         boolean first = active == 0 && initialConnection == null;
                         for (NetworkAddress address : addresses) {
-                            Connection c = new Connection(ctx, CLIENT, address, listener,
+                            Connection c = new Connection(ctx, CLIENT, address, networkHandler.requestedObjects);
-                                    networkHandler.requestedObjects, clientNonce);
                             if (first) {
                                 initialConnection = c;
                                 first = false;

networking/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/DefaultNetworkHandler.java

@@ -35,24 +35,26 @@ import java.net.Socket;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.concurrent.*;
 
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.Connection.Mode.SERVER;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.SERVER;
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.Connection.State.ACTIVE;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.State.ACTIVE;
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.DebugUtils.inc;
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.ThreadFactoryBuilder.pool;
 import static java.util.Collections.newSetFromMap;
 
 /**
  * Handles all the networky stuff.
+ *
+ * @deprecated use {@link ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.nio.NioNetworkHandler NioNetworkHandler} instead.
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class DefaultNetworkHandler implements NetworkHandler, ContextHolder {
-    public final static int NETWORK_MAGIC_NUMBER = 8;
 
     final Collection<Connection> connections = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<>();
     private final ExecutorService pool = Executors.newCachedThreadPool(
-            pool("network")
+        pool("network")
-                    .lowPrio()
+            .lowPrio()
-                    .daemon()
+            .daemon()
-                    .build());
+            .build());
     private InternalContext ctx;
     private ServerRunnable server;
     private volatile boolean running;
@@ -65,9 +67,9 @@ public class DefaultNetworkHandler implements NetworkHandler, ContextHolder {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public Future<?> synchronize(InetAddress server, int port, MessageListener listener, long timeoutInSeconds) {
+    public Future<?> synchronize(InetAddress server, int port, long timeoutInSeconds) {
         try {
-            Connection connection = Connection.sync(ctx, server, port, listener, timeoutInSeconds);
+            Connection connection = Connection.sync(ctx, server, port, ctx.getNetworkListener(), timeoutInSeconds);
             Future<?> reader = pool.submit(connection.getReader());
             pool.execute(connection.getWriter());
             return reader;
@@ -89,28 +91,25 @@ public class DefaultNetworkHandler implements NetworkHandler, ContextHolder {
                     throw new NodeException("No response from node " + server);
                 } else {
                     throw new NodeException("Unexpected response from node " +
-                            server + ": " + networkMessage.getPayload().getCommand());
+                        server + ": " + networkMessage.getPayload().getCommand());
                 }
             }
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+            throw new NodeException(e.getMessage(), e);
         }
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void start(final MessageListener listener) {
+    public void start() {
-        if (listener == null) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Listener must be set at start");
-        }
         if (running) {
             throw new IllegalStateException("Network already running - you need to stop first.");
         }
         try {
             running = true;
             connections.clear();
-            server = new ServerRunnable(ctx, this, listener, ctx.getClientNonce());
+            server = new ServerRunnable(ctx, this);
             pool.execute(server);
-            pool.execute(new ConnectionOrganizer(ctx, this, listener, ctx.getClientNonce()));
+            pool.execute(new ConnectionOrganizer(ctx, this));
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new ApplicationException(e);
         }
@@ -171,12 +170,13 @@ public class DefaultNetworkHandler implements NetworkHandler, ContextHolder {
 
         for (Connection connection : connections) {
             if (connection.getState() == ACTIVE) {
-                long stream = connection.getNode().getStream();
+                for (long stream : connection.getStreams()) {
-                streams.add(stream);
+                    streams.add(stream);
-                if (connection.getMode() == SERVER) {
+                    if (connection.getMode() == SERVER) {
-                    inc(incomingConnections, stream);
+                        inc(incomingConnections, stream);
-                } else {
+                    } else {
-                    inc(outgoingConnections, stream);
+                        inc(outgoingConnections, stream);
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -186,20 +186,21 @@ public class DefaultNetworkHandler implements NetworkHandler, ContextHolder {
             int incoming = incomingConnections.containsKey(stream) ? incomingConnections.get(stream) : 0;
             int outgoing = outgoingConnections.containsKey(stream) ? outgoingConnections.get(stream) : 0;
             streamProperties[i] = new Property("stream " + stream,
-                    null, new Property("nodes", incoming + outgoing),
+                null, new Property("nodes", incoming + outgoing),
-                    new Property("incoming", incoming),
+                new Property("incoming", incoming),
-                    new Property("outgoing", outgoing)
+                new Property("outgoing", outgoing)
             );
             i++;
         }
         return new Property("network", null,
-                new Property("connectionManager", running ? "running" : "stopped"),
+            new Property("connectionManager", running ? "running" : "stopped"),
-                new Property("connections", null, streamProperties),
+            new Property("connections", null, streamProperties),
-                new Property("requestedObjects", requestedObjects.size())
+            new Property("requestedObjects", requestedObjects.size())
         );
     }
 
-    void request(Set<InventoryVector> inventoryVectors) {
+    @Override
+    public void request(Collection<InventoryVector> inventoryVectors) {
         if (!running || inventoryVectors.isEmpty()) return;
 
         Map<Connection, List<InventoryVector>> distribution = new HashMap<>();

networking/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/ServerRunnable.java

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.ServerSocket;
 import java.net.Socket;
 
-import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.Connection.Mode.SERVER;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.SERVER;
 
 /**
  * @author Christian Basler
@@ -37,15 +37,12 @@ public class ServerRunnable implements Runnable, Closeable {
     private final ServerSocket serverSocket;
     private final DefaultNetworkHandler networkHandler;
     private final NetworkHandler.MessageListener listener;
-    private final long clientNonce;
 
-    public ServerRunnable(InternalContext ctx, DefaultNetworkHandler networkHandler,
+    public ServerRunnable(InternalContext ctx, DefaultNetworkHandler networkHandler) throws IOException {
-                          NetworkHandler.MessageListener listener, long clientNonce) throws IOException {
         this.ctx = ctx;
         this.networkHandler = networkHandler;
-        this.listener = listener;
+        this.listener = ctx.getNetworkListener();
         this.serverSocket = new ServerSocket(ctx.getPort());
-        this.clientNonce = clientNonce;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -54,8 +51,7 @@ public class ServerRunnable implements Runnable, Closeable {
             try {
                 Socket socket = serverSocket.accept();
                 socket.setSoTimeout(Connection.READ_TIMEOUT);
-                networkHandler.startConnection(new Connection(ctx, SERVER, socket, listener,
+                networkHandler.startConnection(new Connection(ctx, SERVER, socket, networkHandler.requestedObjects));
-                        networkHandler.requestedObjects, clientNonce));
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 LOG.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
             }

networking/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/nio/ConnectionInfo.java

@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Christian Basler
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.nio;
+
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.GetData;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.MessagePayload;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.NetworkMessage;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.Version;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.InventoryVector;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.NodeException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.factory.V3MessageReader;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Queue;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.CLIENT;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.SYNC;
+
+/**
+ * Represents the current state of a connection.
+ */
+public class ConnectionInfo extends AbstractConnection {
+    private final ByteBuffer headerOut = ByteBuffer.allocate(24);
+    private ByteBuffer payloadOut;
+    private V3MessageReader reader = new V3MessageReader();
+    private boolean syncFinished;
+    private long lastUpdate = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+    public ConnectionInfo(InternalContext context, Mode mode, NetworkAddress node,
+                          Set<InventoryVector> commonRequestedObjects, long syncTimeout) {
+        super(context, mode, node, commonRequestedObjects, syncTimeout);
+        headerOut.flip();
+        if (mode == CLIENT || mode == SYNC) {
+            send(new Version.Builder().defaults(ctx.getClientNonce()).addrFrom(host).addrRecv(node).build());
+        }
+    }
+
+    public State getState() {
+        return state;
+    }
+
+    public boolean knowsOf(InventoryVector iv) {
+        return ivCache.containsKey(iv);
+    }
+
+    public Queue<MessagePayload> getSendingQueue() {
+        return sendingQueue;
+    }
+
+    public ByteBuffer getInBuffer() {
+        if (reader == null) {
+            throw new NodeException("Node is disconnected");
+        }
+        return reader.getActiveBuffer();
+    }
+
+    public void updateWriter() {
+        if (!headerOut.hasRemaining() && !sendingQueue.isEmpty()) {
+            headerOut.clear();
+            MessagePayload payload = sendingQueue.poll();
+            payloadOut = new NetworkMessage(payload).writeHeaderAndGetPayloadBuffer(headerOut);
+            headerOut.flip();
+            lastUpdate = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public ByteBuffer[] getOutBuffers() {
+        return new ByteBuffer[]{headerOut, payloadOut};
+    }
+
+    public void cleanupBuffers() {
+        if (payloadOut != null && !payloadOut.hasRemaining()) {
+            payloadOut = null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void updateReader() {
+        reader.update();
+        if (!reader.getMessages().isEmpty()) {
+            Iterator<NetworkMessage> iterator = reader.getMessages().iterator();
+            NetworkMessage msg = null;
+            while (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                msg = iterator.next();
+                handleMessage(msg.getPayload());
+                iterator.remove();
+            }
+            syncFinished = syncFinished(msg);
+        }
+        lastUpdate = System.currentTimeMillis();
+    }
+
+    public void updateSyncStatus() {
+        if (!syncFinished) {
+            syncFinished = (reader == null || reader.getMessages().isEmpty()) && syncFinished(null);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public boolean isExpired() {
+        switch (state) {
+            case CONNECTING:
+                // the TCP timeout starts out at 20 seconds
+                return lastUpdate < System.currentTimeMillis() - 20_000;
+            case ACTIVE:
+                // after verack messages are exchanged, the timeout is raised to 10 minutes
+                return lastUpdate < System.currentTimeMillis() - 600_000;
+            case DISCONNECTED:
+                return true;
+            default:
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Unknown state: " + state);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void disconnect() {
+        super.disconnect();
+        if (reader != null) {
+            reader.cleanup();
+            reader = null;
+        }
+        payloadOut = null;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isSyncFinished() {
+        return syncFinished;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void send(MessagePayload payload) {
+        sendingQueue.add(payload);
+        if (payload instanceof GetData) {
+            requestedObjects.addAll(((GetData) payload).getInventory());
+            commonRequestedObjects.addAll(((GetData) payload).getInventory());
+        }
+    }
+
+    public boolean isWritePending() {
+        return !sendingQueue.isEmpty()
+            || headerOut != null && headerOut.hasRemaining()
+            || payloadOut != null && payloadOut.hasRemaining();
+    }
+}

networking/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/nio/NioNetworkHandler.java

@@ -0,0 +1,506 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Christian Basler
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.nio;
+
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.InternalContext;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.CustomMessage;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.GetData;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.NetworkMessage;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.InventoryVector;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.ApplicationException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.NodeException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.factory.V3MessageReader;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NetworkHandler;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Property;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.NoRouteToHostException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.channels.*;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.concurrent.*;
+
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.Mode.*;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.State.ACTIVE;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.AbstractConnection.State.DISCONNECTED;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Collections.selectRandom;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.DebugUtils.inc;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.ThreadFactoryBuilder.pool;
+import static java.nio.channels.SelectionKey.*;
+import static java.util.Collections.newSetFromMap;
+
+/**
+ * Network handler using java.nio, resulting in less threads.
+ */
+public class NioNetworkHandler implements NetworkHandler, InternalContext.ContextHolder {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NioNetworkHandler.class);
+    private static final long REQUESTED_OBJECTS_MAX_TIME = 30 * 60_000; // 30 minutes
+
+    private final ExecutorService threadPool = Executors.newCachedThreadPool(
+        pool("network")
+            .lowPrio()
+            .daemon()
+            .build());
+
+    private InternalContext ctx;
+    private Selector selector;
+    private ServerSocketChannel serverChannel;
+    private Queue<NetworkAddress> connectionQueue = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<>();
+    private Map<ConnectionInfo, SelectionKey> connections = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+    private final Set<InventoryVector> requestedObjects = newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap<InventoryVector, Boolean>(10_000));
+    private long requestedObjectsTimeout = 0;
+
+    private Thread starter;
+
+    @Override
+    public Future<Void> synchronize(final InetAddress server, final int port, final long timeoutInSeconds) {
+        return threadPool.submit(new Callable<Void>() {
+            @Override
+            public Void call() throws Exception {
+                try (SocketChannel channel = SocketChannel.open(new InetSocketAddress(server, port))) {
+                    channel.configureBlocking(false);
+                    ConnectionInfo connection = new ConnectionInfo(ctx, SYNC,
+                        new NetworkAddress.Builder().ip(server).port(port).stream(1).build(),
+                        new HashSet<InventoryVector>(), timeoutInSeconds);
+                    while (channel.isConnected() && !connection.isSyncFinished()) {
+                        write(channel, connection);
+                        read(channel, connection);
+                        Thread.sleep(10);
+                    }
+                    LOG.info("Synchronization finished");
+                }
+                return null;
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public CustomMessage send(InetAddress server, int port, CustomMessage request) {
+        try (SocketChannel channel = SocketChannel.open(new InetSocketAddress(server, port))) {
+            channel.configureBlocking(true);
+            ByteBuffer headerBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(HEADER_SIZE);
+            ByteBuffer payloadBuffer = new NetworkMessage(request).writeHeaderAndGetPayloadBuffer(headerBuffer);
+            headerBuffer.flip();
+            while (headerBuffer.hasRemaining()) {
+                channel.write(headerBuffer);
+            }
+            while (payloadBuffer.hasRemaining()) {
+                channel.write(payloadBuffer);
+            }
+
+            V3MessageReader reader = new V3MessageReader();
+            while (channel.isConnected() && reader.getMessages().isEmpty()) {
+                if (channel.read(reader.getActiveBuffer()) > 0) {
+                    reader.update();
+                } else {
+                    throw new NodeException("No response from node " + server);
+                }
+            }
+            NetworkMessage networkMessage;
+            if (reader.getMessages().isEmpty()) {
+                throw new NodeException("No response from node " + server);
+            } else {
+                networkMessage = reader.getMessages().get(0);
+            }
+
+            if (networkMessage != null && networkMessage.getPayload() instanceof CustomMessage) {
+                return (CustomMessage) networkMessage.getPayload();
+            } else {
+                if (networkMessage == null || networkMessage.getPayload() == null) {
+                    throw new NodeException("Empty response from node " + server);
+                } else {
+                    throw new NodeException("Unexpected response from node " + server + ": "
+                        + networkMessage.getPayload().getClass());
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void start() {
+        if (selector != null && selector.isOpen()) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Network already running - you need to stop first.");
+        }
+        try {
+            selector = Selector.open();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+        requestedObjectsTimeout = System.currentTimeMillis() + REQUESTED_OBJECTS_MAX_TIME;
+        requestedObjects.clear();
+
+        starter = thread("connection manager", new Runnable() {
+            @Override
+            public void run() {
+                while (selector.isOpen()) {
+                    int missing = NETWORK_MAGIC_NUMBER;
+                    for (ConnectionInfo connectionInfo : connections.keySet()) {
+                        if (connectionInfo.getState() == ACTIVE) {
+                            missing--;
+                            if (missing == 0) break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    if (missing > 0) {
+                        List<NetworkAddress> addresses = ctx.getNodeRegistry().getKnownAddresses(100, ctx.getStreams());
+                        addresses = selectRandom(missing, addresses);
+                        for (NetworkAddress address : addresses) {
+                            if (!isConnectedTo(address)) {
+                                connectionQueue.offer(address);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    Iterator<Map.Entry<ConnectionInfo, SelectionKey>> it = connections.entrySet().iterator();
+                    while (it.hasNext()) {
+                        Map.Entry<ConnectionInfo, SelectionKey> e = it.next();
+                        if (!e.getValue().isValid() || e.getKey().isExpired()) {
+                            try {
+                                e.getValue().channel().close();
+                            } catch (Exception ignore) {
+                            }
+                            e.getValue().cancel();
+                            e.getValue().attach(null);
+                            e.getKey().disconnect();
+                            it.remove();
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    // The list 'requested objects' helps to prevent downloading an object
+                    // twice. From time to time there is an error though, and an object is
+                    // never downloaded. To prevent a large list of failed objects and give
+                    // them a chance to get downloaded again, let's clear the list from time
+                    // to time. The timeout should be such that most of the initial object
+                    // sync should be done by then, but small enough to prevent objects with
+                    // a normal time out from not being downloaded at all.
+                    long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
+                    if (now > requestedObjectsTimeout) {
+                        requestedObjectsTimeout = now + REQUESTED_OBJECTS_MAX_TIME;
+                        requestedObjects.clear();
+                    }
+
+                    try {
+                        Thread.sleep(30_000);
+                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                        return;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        });
+
+        thread("selector worker", new Runnable() {
+            @Override
+            public void run() {
+                try {
+                    serverChannel = ServerSocketChannel.open();
+                    serverChannel.configureBlocking(false);
+                    serverChannel.socket().bind(new InetSocketAddress(ctx.getPort()));
+                    serverChannel.register(selector, OP_ACCEPT, null);
+
+                    while (selector.isOpen()) {
+                        selector.select(1000);
+                        Iterator<SelectionKey> keyIterator = selector.selectedKeys().iterator();
+                        while (keyIterator.hasNext()) {
+                            SelectionKey key = keyIterator.next();
+                            keyIterator.remove();
+                            if (key.attachment() == null) {
+                                try {
+                                    if (key.isAcceptable()) {
+                                        // handle accept
+                                        try {
+                                            SocketChannel accepted = ((ServerSocketChannel) key.channel()).accept();
+                                            accepted.configureBlocking(false);
+                                            ConnectionInfo connection = new ConnectionInfo(ctx, SERVER,
+                                                new NetworkAddress.Builder().address(accepted.getRemoteAddress()).stream(1).build(),
+                                                requestedObjects, 0
+                                            );
+                                            connections.put(
+                                                connection,
+                                                accepted.register(selector, OP_READ | OP_WRITE, connection)
+                                            );
+                                        } catch (AsynchronousCloseException e) {
+                                            LOG.trace(e.getMessage());
+                                        } catch (IOException e) {
+                                            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+                                        }
+                                    }
+                                } catch (CancelledKeyException e) {
+                                    LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+                                }
+                            } else {
+                                // handle read/write
+                                SocketChannel channel = (SocketChannel) key.channel();
+                                ConnectionInfo connection = (ConnectionInfo) key.attachment();
+                                try {
+                                    if (key.isConnectable()) {
+                                        if (!channel.finishConnect()) {
+                                            continue;
+                                        }
+                                    }
+                                    if (key.isWritable()) {
+                                        write(channel, connection);
+                                    }
+                                    if (key.isReadable()) {
+                                        read(channel, connection);
+                                    }
+                                    if (connection.getState() == DISCONNECTED) {
+                                        key.interestOps(0);
+                                        channel.close();
+                                    } else if (connection.isWritePending()) {
+                                        key.interestOps(OP_READ | OP_WRITE);
+                                    } else {
+                                        key.interestOps(OP_READ);
+                                    }
+                                } catch (CancelledKeyException | NodeException | IOException e) {
+                                    connection.disconnect();
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                        // set interest ops
+                        for (Map.Entry<ConnectionInfo, SelectionKey> e : connections.entrySet()) {
+                            if (e.getValue().isValid()
+                                && (e.getValue().interestOps() & OP_WRITE) == 0
+                                && (e.getValue().interestOps() & OP_CONNECT) == 0
+                                && !e.getKey().getSendingQueue().isEmpty()) {
+                                e.getValue().interestOps(OP_READ | OP_WRITE);
+                            }
+                        }
+                        // start new connections
+                        if (!connectionQueue.isEmpty()) {
+                            NetworkAddress address = connectionQueue.poll();
+                            try {
+                                SocketChannel channel = SocketChannel.open();
+                                channel.configureBlocking(false);
+                                channel.connect(new InetSocketAddress(address.toInetAddress(), address.getPort()));
+                                ConnectionInfo connection = new ConnectionInfo(ctx, CLIENT,
+                                    address,
+                                    requestedObjects, 0
+                                );
+                                connections.put(
+                                    connection,
+                                    channel.register(selector, OP_CONNECT, connection)
+                                );
+                            } catch (NoRouteToHostException ignore) {
+                                // We'll try to connect to many offline nodes, so
+                                // this is expected to happen quite a lot.
+                            } catch (AsynchronousCloseException e) {
+                                // The exception is expected if the network is being
+                                // shut down, as we actually do asynchronously close
+                                // the connections.
+                                if (isRunning()) {
+                                    LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+                                }
+                            } catch (IOException e) {
+                                LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    selector.close();
+                } catch (ClosedSelectorException ignore) {
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    throw new ApplicationException(e);
+                }
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
+    private static void write(SocketChannel channel, ConnectionInfo connection)
+        throws IOException {
+        writeBuffer(connection.getOutBuffers(), channel);
+
+        connection.updateWriter();
+
+        writeBuffer(connection.getOutBuffers(), channel);
+        connection.cleanupBuffers();
+    }
+
+    private static void writeBuffer(ByteBuffer[] buffers, SocketChannel channel) throws IOException {
+        if (buffers[1] == null) {
+            if (buffers[0].hasRemaining()) {
+                channel.write(buffers[0]);
+            }
+        } else if (buffers[1].hasRemaining() || buffers[0].hasRemaining()) {
+            channel.write(buffers);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void read(SocketChannel channel, ConnectionInfo connection) throws IOException {
+        if (channel.read(connection.getInBuffer()) > 0) {
+            connection.updateReader();
+        }
+        connection.updateSyncStatus();
+    }
+
+    private Thread thread(String threadName, Runnable runnable) {
+        Thread thread = new Thread(runnable, threadName);
+        thread.setDaemon(true);
+        thread.setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);
+        thread.start();
+        return thread;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void stop() {
+        try {
+            serverChannel.socket().close();
+            selector.close();
+            for (SelectionKey selectionKey : connections.values()) {
+                selectionKey.channel().close();
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void offer(InventoryVector iv) {
+        List<ConnectionInfo> target = new LinkedList<>();
+        for (ConnectionInfo connection : connections.keySet()) {
+            if (connection.getState() == ACTIVE && !connection.knowsOf(iv)) {
+                target.add(connection);
+            }
+        }
+        List<ConnectionInfo> randomSubset = selectRandom(NETWORK_MAGIC_NUMBER, target);
+        for (ConnectionInfo connection : randomSubset) {
+            connection.offer(iv);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void request(Collection<InventoryVector> inventoryVectors) {
+        if (!isRunning()) {
+            requestedObjects.clear();
+            return;
+        }
+        Iterator<InventoryVector> iterator = inventoryVectors.iterator();
+        if (!iterator.hasNext()) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        Map<ConnectionInfo, List<InventoryVector>> distribution = new HashMap<>();
+        for (ConnectionInfo connection : connections.keySet()) {
+            if (connection.getState() == ACTIVE) {
+                distribution.put(connection, new LinkedList<InventoryVector>());
+            }
+        }
+        if (distribution.isEmpty()) {
+            return;
+        }
+        InventoryVector next = iterator.next();
+        ConnectionInfo previous = null;
+        do {
+            for (ConnectionInfo connection : distribution.keySet()) {
+                if (connection == previous || previous == null) {
+                    if (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                        previous = connection;
+                        next = iterator.next();
+                    } else {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+                if (connection.knowsOf(next)) {
+                    List<InventoryVector> ivs = distribution.get(connection);
+                    if (ivs.size() == GetData.MAX_INVENTORY_SIZE) {
+                        connection.send(new GetData.Builder().inventory(ivs).build());
+                        ivs.clear();
+                    }
+                    ivs.add(next);
+                    iterator.remove();
+
+                    if (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                        next = iterator.next();
+                        previous = connection;
+                    } else {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        } while (iterator.hasNext());
+
+        // remove objects nobody knows of
+        requestedObjects.removeAll(inventoryVectors);
+
+        for (ConnectionInfo connection : distribution.keySet()) {
+            List<InventoryVector> ivs = distribution.get(connection);
+            if (!ivs.isEmpty()) {
+                connection.send(new GetData.Builder().inventory(ivs).build());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Property getNetworkStatus() {
+        TreeSet<Long> streams = new TreeSet<>();
+        TreeMap<Long, Integer> incomingConnections = new TreeMap<>();
+        TreeMap<Long, Integer> outgoingConnections = new TreeMap<>();
+
+        for (ConnectionInfo connection : connections.keySet()) {
+            if (connection.getState() == ACTIVE) {
+                for (long stream : connection.getStreams()) {
+                    streams.add(stream);
+                    if (connection.getMode() == SERVER) {
+                        inc(incomingConnections, stream);
+                    } else {
+                        inc(outgoingConnections, stream);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        Property[] streamProperties = new Property[streams.size()];
+        int i = 0;
+        for (Long stream : streams) {
+            int incoming = incomingConnections.containsKey(stream) ? incomingConnections.get(stream) : 0;
+            int outgoing = outgoingConnections.containsKey(stream) ? outgoingConnections.get(stream) : 0;
+            streamProperties[i] = new Property("stream " + stream,
+                null, new Property("nodes", incoming + outgoing),
+                new Property("incoming", incoming),
+                new Property("outgoing", outgoing)
+            );
+            i++;
+        }
+        return new Property("network", null,
+            new Property("connectionManager", isRunning() ? "running" : "stopped"),
+            new Property("connections", null, streamProperties),
+            new Property("requestedObjects", requestedObjects.size())
+        );
+    }
+
+    private boolean isConnectedTo(NetworkAddress address) {
+        for (ConnectionInfo c : connections.keySet()) {
+            if (c.getNode().equals(address)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isRunning() {
+        return selector != null && selector.isOpen() && starter.isAlive();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setContext(InternalContext context) {
+        this.ctx = context;
+    }
+}

networking/src/test/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/networking/NetworkHandlerTest.java

@@ -22,11 +22,23 @@ import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.CustomMessage;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.MessagePayload;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.NodeException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.networking.nio.NioNetworkHandler;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.*;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Property;
-import org.junit.*;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.rules.DisableOnDebug;
+import org.junit.rules.TestRule;
+import org.junit.rules.Timeout;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Singleton.cryptography;
@@ -37,70 +49,98 @@ import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
 
 /**
- * FIXME: there really should be sensible tests for the network handler
+ * Tests network handlers. This test is parametrized, so it can test both the nio and classic implementation
+ * as well as their combinations. It might be slightly over the top and will most probably be cleaned up once
+ * the nio implementation is deemed stable.
  */
+@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
 public class NetworkHandlerTest {
-    private static NetworkAddress localhost = new NetworkAddress.Builder().ipv4(127, 0, 0, 1).port(6001).build();
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NetworkHandlerTest.class);
+    private static NetworkAddress peerAddress = new NetworkAddress.Builder().ipv4(127, 0, 0, 1).port(6001).build();
 
     private TestInventory peerInventory;
     private TestInventory nodeInventory;
 
     private BitmessageContext peer;
     private BitmessageContext node;
-    private NetworkHandler networkHandler;
+
+    private final NetworkHandler peerNetworkHandler;
+    private final NetworkHandler nodeNetworkHandler;
+
+    @Rule
+    public final TestRule timeout = new DisableOnDebug(Timeout.seconds(60));
+
+    public NetworkHandlerTest(NetworkHandler peer, NetworkHandler node) {
+        this.peerNetworkHandler = peer;
+        this.nodeNetworkHandler = node;
+    }
+
+    @Parameterized.Parameters
+    public static List<Object[]> parameters() {
+        return Arrays.asList(new Object[][]{
+            {new DefaultNetworkHandler(), new DefaultNetworkHandler()},
+            {new DefaultNetworkHandler(), new NioNetworkHandler()},
+            {new NioNetworkHandler(), new DefaultNetworkHandler()},
+            {new NioNetworkHandler(), new NioNetworkHandler()}
+        });
+    }
 
     @Before
-    public void setUp() {
+    public void setUp() throws InterruptedException {
         peerInventory = new TestInventory();
         peer = new BitmessageContext.Builder()
-                .addressRepo(mock(AddressRepository.class))
+            .addressRepo(mock(AddressRepository.class))
-                .inventory(peerInventory)
+            .inventory(peerInventory)
-                .messageRepo(mock(MessageRepository.class))
+            .messageRepo(mock(MessageRepository.class))
-                .powRepo(mock(ProofOfWorkRepository.class))
+            .powRepo(mock(ProofOfWorkRepository.class))
-                .port(6001)
+            .port(peerAddress.getPort())
-                .nodeRegistry(new TestNodeRegistry())
+            .nodeRegistry(new TestNodeRegistry())
-                .networkHandler(new DefaultNetworkHandler())
+            .networkHandler(peerNetworkHandler)
-                .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
+            .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
-                .listener(mock(BitmessageContext.Listener.class))
+            .listener(mock(BitmessageContext.Listener.class))
-                .build();
+            .customCommandHandler(new CustomCommandHandler() {
+                @Override
+                public MessagePayload handle(CustomMessage request) {
+                    byte[] data = request.getData();
+                    if (data.length > 0) {
+                        switch (data[0]) {
+                            case 0:
+                                return null;
+                            case 1:
+                                break;
+                            case 3:
+                                data[0] = 0;
+                                break;
+                            default:
+                                break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    return new CustomMessage("test response", request.getData());
+                }
+            })
+            .build();
         peer.startup();
+        Thread.sleep(100);
 
         nodeInventory = new TestInventory();
-        networkHandler = new DefaultNetworkHandler();
         node = new BitmessageContext.Builder()
-                .addressRepo(mock(AddressRepository.class))
+            .addressRepo(mock(AddressRepository.class))
-                .inventory(nodeInventory)
+            .inventory(nodeInventory)
-                .messageRepo(mock(MessageRepository.class))
+            .messageRepo(mock(MessageRepository.class))
-                .powRepo(mock(ProofOfWorkRepository.class))
+            .powRepo(mock(ProofOfWorkRepository.class))
-                .port(6002)
+            .port(6002)
-                .nodeRegistry(new TestNodeRegistry(localhost))
+            .nodeRegistry(new TestNodeRegistry(peerAddress))
-                .networkHandler(networkHandler)
+            .networkHandler(nodeNetworkHandler)
-                .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
+            .cryptography(new BouncyCryptography())
-                .listener(mock(BitmessageContext.Listener.class))
+            .listener(mock(BitmessageContext.Listener.class))
-                .customCommandHandler(new CustomCommandHandler() {
+            .build();
-                    @Override
-                    public MessagePayload handle(CustomMessage request) {
-                        byte[] data = request.getData();
-                        if (data.length > 0) {
-                            switch (data[0]) {
-                                case 0:
-                                    return null;
-                                case 1:
-                                    break;
-                                case 3:
-                                    data[0] = 0;
-                            }
-                        }
-                        return new CustomMessage("test response", request.getData());
-                    }
-                })
-                .build();
     }
 
     @After
     public void cleanUp() {
         shutdown(peer);
         shutdown(node);
+        shutdown(nodeNetworkHandler);
     }
 
     private static void shutdown(BitmessageContext ctx) {
@@ -115,93 +155,112 @@ public class NetworkHandlerTest {
         } while (ctx.isRunning());
     }
 
-    @Test(timeout = 5_000)
+    private static void shutdown(NetworkHandler networkHandler) {
-    public void ensureNodesAreConnecting() {
+        if (!networkHandler.isRunning()) return;
-        node.startup();
+
-        Property status;
+        networkHandler.stop();
         do {
-            Thread.yield();
+            try {
-            status = node.status().getProperty("network", "connections", "stream 0");
+                Thread.sleep(100);
-        } while (status == null);
+            } catch (InterruptedException ignore) {
-        assertEquals(1, status.getProperty("outgoing").getValue());
+                if (networkHandler.isRunning()) {
+                    LOG.warn("Thread interrupted while waiting for network shutdown - " +
+                        "this could cause problems in subsequent tests.");
+                }
+                return;
+            }
+        } while (networkHandler.isRunning());
     }
 
-    @Test(timeout = 5_000)
+    private Property waitForNetworkStatus(BitmessageContext ctx) throws InterruptedException {
+        Property status;
+        do {
+            Thread.sleep(100);
+            status = ctx.status().getProperty("network", "connections", "stream 1");
+        } while (status == null);
+        return status;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void ensureNodesAreConnecting() throws Exception {
+        node.startup();
+
+        Property nodeStatus = waitForNetworkStatus(node);
+        Property peerStatus = waitForNetworkStatus(peer);
+
+        assertEquals(1, nodeStatus.getProperty("outgoing").getValue());
+        assertEquals(1, peerStatus.getProperty("incoming").getValue());
+    }
+
+    @Test
     public void ensureCustomMessageIsSentAndResponseRetrieved() throws Exception {
         byte[] data = cryptography().randomBytes(8);
         data[0] = (byte) 1;
         CustomMessage request = new CustomMessage("test request", data);
         node.startup();
 
-        CustomMessage response = networkHandler.send(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 6002, request);
+        CustomMessage response = nodeNetworkHandler.send(peerAddress.toInetAddress(), peerAddress.getPort(), request);
 
         assertThat(response, notNullValue());
         assertThat(response.getCustomCommand(), is("test response"));
         assertThat(response.getData(), is(data));
     }
 
-    @Test(timeout = 5_000, expected = NodeException.class)
+    @Test(expected = NodeException.class)
-    public void ensureCustomMessageWithoutResponsYieldsException() throws Exception {
+    public void ensureCustomMessageWithoutResponseYieldsException() throws Exception {
         byte[] data = cryptography().randomBytes(8);
         data[0] = (byte) 0;
         CustomMessage request = new CustomMessage("test request", data);
-        node.startup();
 
-        CustomMessage response = networkHandler.send(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 6002, request);
+        CustomMessage response = nodeNetworkHandler.send(peerAddress.toInetAddress(), peerAddress.getPort(), request);
 
         assertThat(response, notNullValue());
         assertThat(response.getCustomCommand(), is("test response"));
         assertThat(response.getData(), is(request.getData()));
     }
 
-    @Test(timeout = 5_000)
+    @Test
     public void ensureObjectsAreSynchronizedIfBothHaveObjects() throws Exception {
         peerInventory.init(
-                "V4Pubkey.payload",
+            "V4Pubkey.payload",
-                "V5Broadcast.payload"
+            "V5Broadcast.payload"
         );
 
         nodeInventory.init(
-                "V1Msg.payload",
+            "V1Msg.payload",
-                "V4Pubkey.payload"
+            "V4Pubkey.payload"
         );
 
-        Future<?> future = networkHandler.synchronize(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 6001,
+        Future<?> future = nodeNetworkHandler.synchronize(peerAddress.toInetAddress(), peerAddress.getPort(), 10);
-                mock(NetworkHandler.MessageListener.class),
-                10);
         future.get();
         assertInventorySize(3, nodeInventory);
         assertInventorySize(3, peerInventory);
     }
 
-    @Test(timeout = 5_000)
+    @Test
     public void ensureObjectsAreSynchronizedIfOnlyPeerHasObjects() throws Exception {
         peerInventory.init(
-                "V4Pubkey.payload",
+            "V4Pubkey.payload",
-                "V5Broadcast.payload"
+            "V5Broadcast.payload"
         );
 
         nodeInventory.init();
 
-        Future<?> future = networkHandler.synchronize(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 6001,
+        Future<?> future = nodeNetworkHandler.synchronize(peerAddress.toInetAddress(), peerAddress.getPort(), 10);
-                mock(NetworkHandler.MessageListener.class),
-                10);
         future.get();
         assertInventorySize(2, nodeInventory);
         assertInventorySize(2, peerInventory);
     }
 
-    @Test(timeout = 5_000)
+    @Test
     public void ensureObjectsAreSynchronizedIfOnlyNodeHasObjects() throws Exception {
         peerInventory.init();
 
         nodeInventory.init(
-                "V1Msg.payload"
+            "V1Msg.payload"
         );
 
-        Future<?> future = networkHandler.synchronize(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 6001,
+        Future<?> future = nodeNetworkHandler.synchronize(peerAddress.toInetAddress(), peerAddress.getPort(), 10);
-                mock(NetworkHandler.MessageListener.class),
-                10);
         future.get();
         assertInventorySize(1, nodeInventory);
         assertInventorySize(1, peerInventory);

repositories/build.gradle

@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ sourceCompatibility = 1.8
 
 dependencies {
     compile project(':core')
-    compile 'org.flywaydb:flyway-core:3.2.1'
+    compile 'org.flywaydb:flyway-core:4.0.3'
     testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
-    testCompile 'com.h2database:h2:1.4.190'
+    testCompile 'com.h2database:h2:1.4.192'
     testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
     testCompile project(path: ':core', configuration: 'testArtifacts')
     testCompile project(':cryptography-bc')
-}
+}

repositories/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/repository/JdbcMessageRepository.java

@@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ public class JdbcMessageRepository extends AbstractMessageRepository implements
         try (
                 Connection connection = config.getConnection();
                 Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
-                ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT count(*) FROM Message WHERE " + where
+                ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT count(*) FROM Message WHERE " + where)
-                        + " ORDER BY received DESC")
         ) {
             if (rs.next()) {
                 return rs.getInt(1);
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@ public class JdbcMessageRepository extends AbstractMessageRepository implements
                 builder.retries(rs.getInt("retries"));
                 builder.nextTry(rs.getLong("next_try"));
                 builder.labels(findLabels(connection,
-                        "WHERE id IN (SELECT label_id FROM Message_Label WHERE message_id=" + id + ") ORDER BY ord"));
+                        "id IN (SELECT label_id FROM Message_Label WHERE message_id=" + id + ") ORDER BY ord"));
                 Plaintext message = builder.build();
                 message.setInitialHash(rs.getBytes("initial_hash"));
                 result.add(message);

repositories/src/main/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/repository/JdbcNodeRegistry.java

@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+package ch.dissem.bitmessage.repository;
+
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.exception.ApplicationException;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NodeRegistry;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Collections;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.SqlStrings;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.Strings;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.sql.*;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NodeRegistryHelper.loadStableNodes;
+import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime.*;
+
+public class JdbcNodeRegistry extends JdbcHelper implements NodeRegistry {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(JdbcNodeRegistry.class);
+    private Map<Long, Set<NetworkAddress>> stableNodes;
+
+    public JdbcNodeRegistry(JdbcConfig config) {
+        super(config);
+        cleanUp();
+    }
+
+    private void cleanUp() {
+        try (
+            Connection connection = config.getConnection();
+            PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(
+                "DELETE FROM Node WHERE time<?")
+        ) {
+            ps.setLong(1, now(-28 * DAY));
+            ps.executeUpdate();
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private NetworkAddress loadExisting(NetworkAddress node) {
+        String query =
+            "SELECT stream, address, port, services, time" +
+                " FROM Node" +
+                " WHERE stream = " + node.getStream() +
+                "   AND address = X'" + Strings.hex(node.getIPv6()) + "'" +
+                "   AND port = " + node.getPort();
+        try (
+            Connection connection = config.getConnection();
+            Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
+            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query)
+        ) {
+            if (rs.next()) {
+                return new NetworkAddress.Builder()
+                    .stream(rs.getLong("stream"))
+                    .ipv6(rs.getBytes("address"))
+                    .port(rs.getInt("port"))
+                    .services(rs.getLong("services"))
+                    .time(rs.getLong("time"))
+                    .build();
+            } else {
+                return null;
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public List<NetworkAddress> getKnownAddresses(int limit, long... streams) {
+        List<NetworkAddress> result = new LinkedList<>();
+        String query =
+            "SELECT stream, address, port, services, time" +
+                " FROM Node WHERE stream IN (" + SqlStrings.join(streams) + ")" +
+                " ORDER BY TIME DESC" +
+                " LIMIT " + limit;
+        try (
+            Connection connection = config.getConnection();
+            Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
+            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query)
+        ) {
+            while (rs.next()) {
+                result.add(
+                    new NetworkAddress.Builder()
+                        .stream(rs.getLong("stream"))
+                        .ipv6(rs.getBytes("address"))
+                        .port(rs.getInt("port"))
+                        .services(rs.getLong("services"))
+                        .time(rs.getLong("time"))
+                        .build()
+                );
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+            throw new ApplicationException(e);
+        }
+        if (result.isEmpty()) {
+            synchronized (this) {
+                if (stableNodes == null) {
+                    stableNodes = loadStableNodes();
+                }
+            }
+            for (long stream : streams) {
+                Set<NetworkAddress> nodes = stableNodes.get(stream);
+                if (nodes != null && !nodes.isEmpty()) {
+                    result.add(Collections.selectRandom(nodes));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void offerAddresses(List<NetworkAddress> nodes) {
+        cleanUp();
+        nodes.stream()
+            .filter(node -> node.getTime() < now(+2 * MINUTE) && node.getTime() > now(-28 * DAY))
+            .forEach(node -> {
+                synchronized (this) {
+                    NetworkAddress existing = loadExisting(node);
+                    if (existing == null) {
+                        insert(node);
+                    } else if (node.getTime() > existing.getTime()) {
+                        update(node);
+                    }
+                }
+            });
+    }
+
+    private void insert(NetworkAddress node) {
+        try (
+            Connection connection = config.getConnection();
+            PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(
+                "INSERT INTO Node (stream, address, port, services, time) " +
+                    "VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)")
+        ) {
+            ps.setLong(1, node.getStream());
+            ps.setBytes(2, node.getIPv6());
+            ps.setInt(3, node.getPort());
+            ps.setLong(4, node.getServices());
+            ps.setLong(5, node.getTime());
+            ps.executeUpdate();
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void update(NetworkAddress node) {
+        try (
+            Connection connection = config.getConnection();
+            PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(
+                "UPDATE Node SET services=?, time=? WHERE stream=? AND address=? AND port=?")
+        ) {
+            ps.setLong(1, node.getServices());
+            ps.setLong(2, node.getTime());
+            ps.setLong(3, node.getStream());
+            ps.setBytes(4, node.getIPv6());
+            ps.setInt(5, node.getPort());
+            ps.executeUpdate();
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+        }
+    }
+}

repositories/src/main/resources/db/migration/V3.3__Create_table_node.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+CREATE TABLE Node (
+  stream   BIGINT     NOT NULL,
+  address  BINARY(32) NOT NULL,
+  port     INT        NOT NULL,
+  services BIGINT     NOT NULL,
+  time     BIGINT     NOT NULL,
+  PRIMARY KEY (stream, address, port)
+);
+CREATE INDEX idx_time on Node(time);

repositories/src/test/java/ch/dissem/bitmessage/repository/JdbcNodeRegistryTest.java

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 package ch.dissem.bitmessage.repository;
 
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.entity.valueobject.NetworkAddress;
-import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.MemoryNodeRegistry;
 import ch.dissem.bitmessage.ports.NodeRegistry;
+import ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -27,8 +27,15 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import static ch.dissem.bitmessage.utils.UnixTime.now;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.empty;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 
+/**
+ * Please note that some tests fail if there is no internet connection,
+ * as the initial nodes' IP addresses are determined by DNS lookup.
+ */
 public class JdbcNodeRegistryTest extends TestBase {
     private TestJdbcConfig config;
     private NodeRegistry registry;
@@ -37,21 +44,26 @@ public class JdbcNodeRegistryTest extends TestBase {
     public void setUp() throws Exception {
         config = new TestJdbcConfig();
         config.reset();
-        registry = new MemoryNodeRegistry();
+        registry = new JdbcNodeRegistry(config);
 
         registry.offerAddresses(Arrays.asList(
-                createAddress(1, 8444, 1, now()),
+            createAddress(1, 8444, 1, now()),
-                createAddress(2, 8444, 1, now()),
+            createAddress(2, 8444, 1, now()),
-                createAddress(3, 8444, 1, now()),
+            createAddress(3, 8444, 1, now()),
-                createAddress(4, 8444, 2, now())
+            createAddress(4, 8444, 2, now())
         ));
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void testInitNodes() throws Exception {
+    public void ensureGetKnownNodesWithoutStreamsYieldsEmpty() {
+        assertThat(registry.getKnownAddresses(10), empty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void ensurePredefinedNodeIsReturnedWhenDatabaseIsEmpty() throws Exception {
         config.reset();
         List<NetworkAddress> knownAddresses = registry.getKnownAddresses(2, 1);
-        assertEquals(2, knownAddresses.size());
+        assertEquals(1, knownAddresses.size());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -66,16 +78,16 @@ public class JdbcNodeRegistryTest extends TestBase {
     @Test
     public void testOfferAddresses() throws Exception {
         registry.offerAddresses(Arrays.asList(
-                createAddress(1, 8444, 1, now()),
+            createAddress(1, 8444, 1, now()),
-                createAddress(10, 8444, 1, now()),
+            createAddress(10, 8444, 1, now()),
-                createAddress(11, 8444, 1, now())
+            createAddress(11, 8444, 1, now())
         ));
 
         List<NetworkAddress> knownAddresses = registry.getKnownAddresses(1000, 1);
         assertEquals(5, knownAddresses.size());
 
         registry.offerAddresses(Collections.singletonList(
-                createAddress(1, 8445, 1, now())
+            createAddress(1, 8445, 1, now())
         ));
 
         knownAddresses = registry.getKnownAddresses(1000, 1);
@@ -84,10 +96,10 @@ public class JdbcNodeRegistryTest extends TestBase {
 
     private NetworkAddress createAddress(int lastByte, int port, long stream, long time) {
         return new NetworkAddress.Builder()
-                .ipv6(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, lastByte)
+            .ipv6(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, lastByte)
-                .port(port)
+            .port(port)
-                .stream(stream)
+            .stream(stream)
-                .time(time)
+            .time(time)
-                .build();
+            .build();
     }
-}
+}

wif/build.gradle

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ uploadArchives {
 dependencies {
     compile project(':core')
     compile 'org.ini4j:ini4j:0.5.4'
-    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
+    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
     testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
     testCompile project(':cryptography-bc')
 }