Raft-rs interface requires the application to process special structure,
the so-called "ready state". It also makes a demand on the processing
workflow. The fields must be processed in a certain sequence, see
<https://docs.rs/raft/0.6.0/raft/index.html#processing-the-ready-state>.

For example, it was a mistake to send `persisted_messages` inside a
transaction, because it's forbidded to do so before persisting the hard
state, but the actual write happens only in the end of transaction.

As for handling `soft_state` and `read_states`, they're useless in a
transaction as they don't persist anything.

The documentation is quite complicated, so this code might be revised
once again later.

1. Encapsulate topology access in a dedicated function.
2. Remove obsolete CachedCell

Yaroslav Dynnikov authored 2 years ago and Yaroslav Dynnikov committed 2 years ago

Exit only after processing `light_ready`. It doesn't affect much the
behavior, but simplifies main_loop decomposition.