Event streams

[seertenedos]

Firstly i wanted to say that they look extreamly useful but i see one main issue with them. If you build your application to rely on them then you need to be able to deal with the case when the reader crashes or looses connection and needs to resume. If not you would need to ge thte state of everything when you restart the app or process. To me it seems like it could be ideal to be able to specify the events you are interested in from a block going forward or something like that and you have the events report the block so you can keep track of where you are up to and resume from there once connection is back or your app is back up again.

If developers could do something like that then i could see a lot of the API calls not being needed for queries and managing local state that is in sync with the blockchain would be a lot easier.