package participant
Package Members
- package state
Interfaces to read from and write to an (abstract) participant state.
Interfaces to read from and write to an (abstract) participant state.
A Daml ledger participant is code that allows to actively participate in the evolution of a shared Daml ledger. Each such participant maintains a particular view onto the state of the Daml ledger. We call this view the participant state.
Actual implementations of a Daml ledger participant will likely maintain more state than what is exposed through the interfaces in this package, which is why we talk about an abstract participant state. It abstracts over the different implementations of Daml ledger participants.
The interfaces are optimized for easy implementation. The SyncService interface contains the methods for changing the participant state (and potentially the state of the Daml ledger), which all ledger participants must support. These methods are for example exposed via the Daml Ledger API. Actual ledger participant implementations likely support more implementation-specific methods. They are however not exposed via the Daml Ledger API.