When we re-index blocks due to mining pools change, wipe the nodejs backend cache

backend/src/api/disk-cache.ts

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ class DiskCache {
   }
 
   wipeCache() {
+    logger.notice(`Wipping nodejs backend cache/cache*.json files`);
     fs.unlinkSync(DiskCache.FILE_NAME);
     for (let i = 1; i < DiskCache.CHUNK_FILES; i++) {
       fs.unlinkSync(DiskCache.FILE_NAMES.replace('{number}', i.toString()));

backend/src/api/pools-parser.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import logger from '../logger';
 import config from '../config';
 import PoolsRepository from '../repositories/PoolsRepository';
 import { PoolTag } from '../mempool.interfaces';
+import diskCache from './disk-cache';
 
 class PoolsParser {
   miningPools: any[] = [];
@@ -139,6 +140,10 @@ class PoolsParser {
       WHERE pool_id = ?`,
       [pool.id]
     );
+
+    // We also need to wipe the backend cache to make sure we don't serve blocks with
+    // the wrong mining pool (usually happen with unknown blocks)
+    diskCache.wipeCache();
   }
 
   private async $deleteUnknownBlocks(): Promise<void> {
@@ -149,6 +154,10 @@ class PoolsParser {
       WHERE pool_id = ? AND height >= 130635`,
       [unknownPool[0].id]
     );
+
+    // We also need to wipe the backend cache to make sure we don't serve blocks with
+    // the wrong mining pool (usually happen with unknown blocks)
+    diskCache.wipeCache();
   }
 }