cli: Reject arguments to -getinfo

Currently it's possible to accidentally type e.g.

    bitcoin-cli -getinfo getbalance

and get an answer which can be confusing; the trialing arguments are
just ignored.

To avoid this, throw an error if the user provides arguments to
`-getinfo`.
This commit is contained in:
Wladimir J. van der Laan 2017-11-17 14:11:02 +01:00
parent 1f7695b419
commit dcfef277b4
2 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ public:
/** Create a simulated `getinfo` request. */
UniValue PrepareRequest(const std::string& method, const std::vector<std::string>& args) override
{
if (!args.empty()) {
throw std::runtime_error("-getinfo takes no arguments");
}
UniValue result(UniValue::VARR);
result.push_back(JSONRPCRequestObj("getnetworkinfo", NullUniValue, ID_NETWORKINFO));
result.push_back(JSONRPCRequestObj("getblockchaininfo", NullUniValue, ID_BLOCKCHAININFO));

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@ -35,8 +35,11 @@ class TestBitcoinCli(BitcoinTestFramework):
assert_equal(["foo", "bar"], self.nodes[0].cli('-rpcuser=%s' % user, '-stdin', '-stdinrpcpass', input=password + "\nfoo\nbar").echo())
assert_raises_process_error(1, "incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword", self.nodes[0].cli('-rpcuser=%s' % user, '-stdin', '-stdinrpcpass', input="foo").echo)
self.log.info("Make sure that -getinfo with arguments fails")
assert_raises_process_error(1, "-getinfo takes no arguments", self.nodes[0].cli('-getinfo').help)
self.log.info("Compare responses from `bitcoin-cli -getinfo` and the RPCs data is retrieved from.")
cli_get_info = self.nodes[0].cli('-getinfo').help()
cli_get_info = self.nodes[0].cli().send_cli('-getinfo')
wallet_info = self.nodes[0].getwalletinfo()
network_info = self.nodes[0].getnetworkinfo()
blockchain_info = self.nodes[0].getblockchaininfo()