raft/raft.go
func (r *raft) maybeSendAppend(to uint64, sendIfEmpty bool) bool {
	pr := r.getProgress(to)
	if pr.IsPaused() {
		return false
	}
	m := pb.Message{}
	m.To = to

	term, errt := r.raftLog.term(pr.Next - 1)
	ents, erre := r.raftLog.entries(pr.Next, r.maxMsgSize)
	if len(ents) == 0 && !sendIfEmpty {
		return false
	}

	if errt != nil || erre != nil { // send snapshot if we failed to get term or entries
		if !pr.RecentActive {
			r.logger.Debugf("ignore sending snapshot to %x since it is not recently active", to)
			return false
		}

		m.Type = pb.MsgSnap
		snapshot, err := r.raftLog.snapshot()
		if err != nil {
			if err == ErrSnapshotTemporarilyUnavailable {
				r.logger.Debugf("%x failed to send snapshot to %x because snapshot is temporarily unavailable", r.id, to)
				return false
			}
			panic(err) // TODO(bdarnell)
		}
		if IsEmptySnap(snapshot) {
			panic("need non-empty snapshot")
		}
		m.Snapshot = snapshot
		sindex, sterm := snapshot.Metadata.Index, snapshot.Metadata.Term
		r.logger.Debugf("%x [firstindex: %d, commit: %d] sent snapshot[index: %d, term: %d] to %x [%s]",
			r.id, r.raftLog.firstIndex(), r.raftLog.committed, sindex, sterm, to, pr)
		pr.becomeSnapshot(sindex)
		r.logger.Debugf("%x paused sending replication messages to %x [%s]", r.id, to, pr)
	} else {
		m.Type = pb.MsgApp
		m.Index = pr.Next - 1
		m.LogTerm = term
		m.Entries = ents
		m.Commit = r.raftLog.committed
		if n := len(m.Entries); n != 0 {
			switch pr.State {
			// optimistically increase the next when in ProgressStateReplicate
			case ProgressStateReplicate:
				last := m.Entries[n-1].Index
				pr.optimisticUpdate(last)
				pr.ins.add(last)
			case ProgressStateProbe:
				pr.pause()
			default:
				r.logger.Panicf("%x is sending append in unhandled state %s", r.id, pr.State)
			}
		}
	}
	r.send(m)
	return true
}
func (r *raft) maybeSendAppend(to uint64, sendIfEmpty bool) bool {
	pr := r.getProgress(to)
	if pr.IsPaused() {
		return false
	}
	m := pb.Message{}
	m.To = to

	term, errt := r.raftLog.term(pr.Next - 1)
	ents, erre := r.raftLog.entries(pr.Next, r.maxMsgSize)
	if len(ents) == 0 && !sendIfEmpty {
		return false
	}

	if errt != nil || erre != nil { // send snapshot if we failed to get term or entries
		if !pr.RecentActive {
			r.logger.Debugf("ignore sending snapshot to %x since it is not recently active", to)
			return false
		}

		m.Type = pb.MsgSnap
		snapshot, err := r.raftLog.snapshot()
		if err != nil {
			if err == ErrSnapshotTemporarilyUnavailable {
				r.logger.Debugf("%x failed to send snapshot to %x because snapshot is temporarily unavailable", r.id, to)
				return false
			}
			panic(err) // TODO(bdarnell)
		}
		if IsEmptySnap(snapshot) {
			panic("need non-empty snapshot")
		}
		m.Snapshot = snapshot
		sindex, sterm := snapshot.Metadata.Index, snapshot.Metadata.Term
		r.logger.Debugf("%x [firstindex: %d, commit: %d] sent snapshot[index: %d, term: %d] to %x [%s]",
			r.id, r.raftLog.firstIndex(), r.raftLog.committed, sindex, sterm, to, pr)
		pr.becomeSnapshot(sindex)
		r.logger.Debugf("%x paused sending replication messages to %x [%s]", r.id, to, pr)
	} else {
		m.Type = pb.MsgApp
		m.Index = pr.Next - 1
		m.LogTerm = term
		m.Entries = ents
		m.Commit = r.raftLog.committed
		if n := len(m.Entries); n != 0 {
			switch pr.State {
			// optimistically increase the next when in ProgressStateReplicate
			case ProgressStateReplicate:
				last := m.Entries[n-1].Index
				pr.optimisticUpdate(last)
				pr.ins.add(last)
			case ProgressStateProbe:
				pr.pause()
			default:
				r.logger.Panicf("%x is sending append in unhandled state %s", r.id, pr.State)
			}
		}
	}
	r.send(m)
	return true
}
// maybeSendAppend sends an append RPC with new entries to the given peer,
// if necessary. Returns true if a message was sent. The sendIfEmpty
// argument controls whether messages with no entries will be sent
// ("empty" messages are useful to convey updated Commit indexes, but
// are undesirable when we're sending multiple messages in a batch).