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// This file is part of Substrate.

// Copyright (C) 2019-2022 Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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//
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//! Traits for dealing with on-chain randomness.

/// A trait that is able to provide randomness.
///
/// Being a deterministic blockchain, real randomness is difficult to come by, different
/// implementations of this trait will provide different security guarantees. At best,
/// this will be randomness which was hard to predict a long time ago, but that has become
/// easy to predict recently.
pub trait Randomness<Output, BlockNumber> {
	/// Get the most recently determined random seed, along with the time in the past
	/// since when it was determinable by chain observers.
	///
	/// `subject` is a context identifier and allows you to get a different result to
	/// other callers of this function; use it like `random(&b"my context"[..])`.
	///
	/// NOTE: The returned seed should only be used to distinguish commitments made before
	/// the returned block number. If the block number is too early (i.e. commitments were
	/// made afterwards), then ensure no further commitments may be made and repeatedly
	/// call this on later blocks until the block number returned is later than the latest
	/// commitment.
	fn random(subject: &[u8]) -> (Output, BlockNumber);

	/// Get the basic random seed.
	///
	/// In general you won't want to use this, but rather `Self::random` which allows
	/// you to give a subject for the random result and whose value will be
	/// independently low-influence random from any other such seeds.
	///
	/// NOTE: The returned seed should only be used to distinguish commitments made before
	/// the returned block number. If the block number is too early (i.e. commitments were
	/// made afterwards), then ensure no further commitments may be made and repeatedly
	/// call this on later blocks until the block number returned is later than the latest
	/// commitment.
	fn random_seed() -> (Output, BlockNumber) {
		Self::random(&[][..])
	}
}