ethstats: cut short unavailable history responses

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ethstats/ethstats.go b/ethstats/ethstats.go
index 3ebbe3fc3..aec8eb8bf 100644
--- a/ethstats/ethstats.go
+++ b/ethstats/ethstats.go
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ func (s *Service) reportHistory(conn *websocket.Conn, list []uint64) error {
 	// Gather the batch of blocks to report
 	history := make([]*blockStats, len(indexes))
 	for i, number := range indexes {
+		// Retrieve the next block if it's known to us
 		var block *types.Block
 		if s.eth != nil {
 			block = s.eth.BlockChain().GetBlockByNumber(number)
@@ -545,13 +546,20 @@ func (s *Service) reportHistory(conn *websocket.Conn, list []uint64) error {
 				block = types.NewBlockWithHeader(header)
 			}
 		}
+		// If we do have the block, add to the history and continue
 		if block != nil {
 			history[len(history)-1-i] = s.assembleBlockStats(block)
+			continue
 		}
+		// Ran out of blocks, cut the report short and send
+		history = history[len(history)-i:]
 	}
 	// Assemble the history report and send it to the server
-	log.Trace("Sending historical blocks to ethstats", "first", history[0].Number, "last", history[len(history)-1].Number)
-
+	if len(history) > 0 {
+		log.Trace("Sending historical blocks to ethstats", "first", history[0].Number, "last", history[len(history)-1].Number)
+	} else {
+		log.Trace("No history to send to stats server")
+	}
 	stats := map[string]interface{}{
 		"id":      s.node,
 		"history": history,