5e69a43 Add test for bitcoin-cli -getinfo (John Newbery)
3826253 rpc: Handle `getinfo` locally in bitcoin-cli w/ `-getinfo` (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
Since @laanwj doesn't want to maintain these changes anymore, I will.
This PR is a revival of #8843. I have addressed @jnewbery's comments.
Regarding atomicity, I don't think that is a concern here. This is explicitly a new API and those who use it will know that this is different and that it is not atomic.
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This adds the infrastructure `BaseRequestHandler` class that takes care
of converting bitcoin-cli arguments into a JSON-RPC request object, and
converting the reply into a JSON object that can be shown as result.
This is subsequently used to handle the `-getinfo` option, which sends
a JSON-RPC batch request to the RPC server with
`["getnetworkinfo", "getblockchaininfo", "getwalletinfo"]`,
and after reply combines the result into what looks like a `getinfo`
result.
There have been some requests for a client-side `getinfo` and this
is my PoC of how to do it. If this is considered a good idea
some of the logic could be moved up to rpcclient.cpp and
used in the GUI console as well.
Extra-Author: Andrew Chow <achow101@gmail.com>
Deprecate estimatefee in v0.16, for final removal in v0.17.
This commit introduces a phased removal of RPC methods. RPC method is
disabled by default in version x, but can be enabled by using the
`-deprecatedrpc=<method>` argument. RPC method is removed entirely in
version (x+1).
Use POSIX rename atomicity at the `bitcoind` side to create a working
cookie atomically:
- Write `.cookie.tmp`, close file
- Rename `.cookie.tmp` to `.cookie`
This avoids clients reading invalid/partial cookies as in #11129.
Raise RPC_WALLET_NOT_SPECIFIED instead of RPC_METHOD_NOT_FOUND when a required
wallet filename was not specified in an RPC call.
Also raise more specific RPC_WALLET_NOT_FOUND error instead of
RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER in case an invalid wallet was specified, for consistency.
RPC_INVALID_REQUEST and RPC_METHOD_NOT_FOUND are mapped internally to
HTTP error codes and should not be used for application-layer errors.
This commit adds commenting around those definitions to warn not to use
them for application errors.
