fix docs / proxy app (#2988)

* fix docs / proxy app, closes #2986

* counter_serial

* review comments

* list all possible options

* add changelog entries

CHANGELOG_PENDING.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Special thanks to external contributors on this release:
 ### BREAKING CHANGES:
 
 * CLI/RPC/Config
+- [cli] Removed `node` `--proxy_app=dummy` option. Use `kvstore` (`persistent_kvstore`) instead.
+- [cli] Renamed `node` `--proxy_app=nilapp` to `--proxy_app=noop`.
 
 * Apps
 

abci/cmd/abci-cli/abci-cli.go

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ var RootCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	PersistentPreRunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 
 		switch cmd.Use {
-		case "counter", "kvstore", "dummy": // for the examples apps, don't pre-run
+		case "counter", "kvstore": // for the examples apps, don't pre-run
 			return nil
 		case "version": // skip running for version command
 			return nil
@@ -127,10 +127,6 @@ func addCounterFlags() {
 	counterCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&flagSerial, "serial", "", false, "enforce incrementing (serial) transactions")
 }
 
-func addDummyFlags() {
-	dummyCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&flagPersist, "persist", "", "", "directory to use for a database")
-}
-
 func addKVStoreFlags() {
 	kvstoreCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&flagPersist, "persist", "", "", "directory to use for a database")
 }
@@ -152,10 +148,6 @@ func addCommands() {
 	// examples
 	addCounterFlags()
 	RootCmd.AddCommand(counterCmd)
-	// deprecated, left for backwards compatibility
-	addDummyFlags()
-	RootCmd.AddCommand(dummyCmd)
-	// replaces dummy, see issue #196
 	addKVStoreFlags()
 	RootCmd.AddCommand(kvstoreCmd)
 }
@@ -291,18 +283,6 @@ var counterCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	},
 }
 
-// deprecated, left for backwards compatibility
-var dummyCmd = &cobra.Command{
-	Use:        "dummy",
-	Deprecated: "use: [abci-cli kvstore] instead",
-	Short:      "ABCI demo example",
-	Long:       "ABCI demo example",
-	Args:       cobra.ExactArgs(0),
-	RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-		return cmdKVStore(cmd, args)
-	},
-}
-
 var kvstoreCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "kvstore",
 	Short: "ABCI demo example",

cmd/tendermint/commands/run_node.go

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func AddNodeFlags(cmd *cobra.Command) {
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("fast_sync", config.FastSync, "Fast blockchain syncing")
 
 	// abci flags
-	cmd.Flags().String("proxy_app", config.ProxyApp, "Proxy app address, or 'nilapp' or 'kvstore' for local testing.")
+	cmd.Flags().String("proxy_app", config.ProxyApp, "Proxy app address, or one of: 'kvstore', 'persistent_kvstore', 'counter', 'counter_serial' or 'noop' for local testing.")
 	cmd.Flags().String("abci", config.ABCI, "Specify abci transport (socket | grpc)")
 
 	// rpc flags

docs/tendermint-core/using-tendermint.md

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ blocks are produced regularly, even if there are no transactions. See
 _No Empty Blocks_, below, to modify this setting.
 
 Tendermint supports in-process versions of the `counter`, `kvstore` and
-`nil` apps that ship as examples with `abci-cli`. It's easy to compile
+`noop` apps that ship as examples with `abci-cli`. It's easy to compile
 your own app in-process with Tendermint if it's written in Go. If your
 app is not written in Go, simply run it in another process, and use the
 `--proxy_app` flag to specify the address of the socket it is listening

proxy/client.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 
 	abcicli "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci/client"
+	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci/example/counter"
 	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci/example/kvstore"
 	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci/types"
 )
@@ -64,15 +65,15 @@ func (r *remoteClientCreator) NewABCIClient() (abcicli.Client, error) {
 
 func DefaultClientCreator(addr, transport, dbDir string) ClientCreator {
 	switch addr {
+	case "counter":
+		return NewLocalClientCreator(counter.NewCounterApplication(false))
+	case "counter_serial":
+		return NewLocalClientCreator(counter.NewCounterApplication(true))
 	case "kvstore":
-		fallthrough
-	case "dummy":
 		return NewLocalClientCreator(kvstore.NewKVStoreApplication())
 	case "persistent_kvstore":
-		fallthrough
-	case "persistent_dummy":
 		return NewLocalClientCreator(kvstore.NewPersistentKVStoreApplication(dbDir))
-	case "nilapp":
+	case "noop":
 		return NewLocalClientCreator(types.NewBaseApplication())
 	default:
 		mustConnect := false // loop retrying