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authorCozz Lovan <cozzlovan@yahoo.com>2014-10-04 01:48:12 +0200
committerCozz Lovan <cozzlovan@yahoo.com>2014-10-06 18:52:51 +0200
commit3e61eb9c51b57e5b38133cb35842c471044e1ad6 (patch)
tree03ec6d3af44f91b3e417a3f3595de0c3ae438aba
parentcd91ed4f5f32a3ecf907a2ab37679c41d8d1755c (diff)
minor txindex documentation improvement
-rw-r--r--src/init.cpp3
-rw-r--r--src/rpcrawtransaction.cpp5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 980c589b29..36ba13b941 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
#if !defined(WIN32)
strUsage += " -sysperms " + _("Create new files with system default permissions, instead of umask 077 (only effective with disabled wallet functionality)") + "\n";
#endif
- strUsage += " -txindex " + _("Maintain a full transaction index (default: 0)") + "\n";
+ strUsage += " -txindex " + _("Maintain a full transaction index, used by the getrawtransaction rpc call (default: 0)") + "\n";
strUsage += "\n" + _("Connection options:") + "\n";
strUsage += " -addnode=<ip> " + _("Add a node to connect to and attempt to keep the connection open") + "\n";
@@ -280,7 +280,6 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
strUsage += " -mintxfee=<amt> " + strprintf(_("Fees (in BTC/Kb) smaller than this are considered zero fee for transaction creation (default: %s)"), FormatMoney(CWallet::minTxFee.GetFeePerK())) + "\n";
strUsage += " -paytxfee=<amt> " + strprintf(_("Fee (in BTC/kB) to add to transactions you send (default: %s)"), FormatMoney(payTxFee.GetFeePerK())) + "\n";
strUsage += " -rescan " + _("Rescan the block chain for missing wallet transactions") + " " + _("on startup") + "\n";
- strUsage += " -respendnotify=<cmd> " + _("Execute command when a network tx respends wallet tx input (%s=respend TxID, %t=wallet TxID)") + "\n";
strUsage += " -salvagewallet " + _("Attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet.dat") + " " + _("on startup") + "\n";
strUsage += " -spendzeroconfchange " + _("Spend unconfirmed change when sending transactions (default: 1)") + "\n";
strUsage += " -txconfirmtarget=<n> " + _("If paytxfee is not set, include enough fee so transactions are confirmed on average within n blocks (default: 1)") + "\n";
diff --git a/src/rpcrawtransaction.cpp b/src/rpcrawtransaction.cpp
index bd87d77704..3c62272ecb 100644
--- a/src/rpcrawtransaction.cpp
+++ b/src/rpcrawtransaction.cpp
@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ Value getrawtransaction(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
if (fHelp || params.size() < 1 || params.size() > 2)
throw runtime_error(
"getrawtransaction \"txid\" ( verbose )\n"
+ "\nNOTE: By default this function only works sometimes. This is when the tx is in the mempool\n"
+ "or there is an unspent output in the utxo for this transaction. To make it always work,\n"
+ "you need to maintain a transaction index, using the -txindex command line option.\n"
"\nReturn the raw transaction data.\n"
"\nIf verbose=0, returns a string that is serialized, hex-encoded data for 'txid'.\n"
"If verbose is non-zero, returns an Object with information about 'txid'.\n"
@@ -202,7 +205,7 @@ Value listunspent(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
"Results are an array of Objects, each of which has:\n"
"{txid, vout, scriptPubKey, amount, confirmations}\n"
"\nArguments:\n"
- "1. minconf (numeric, optional, default=1) The minimum confirmationsi to filter\n"
+ "1. minconf (numeric, optional, default=1) The minimum confirmations to filter\n"
"2. maxconf (numeric, optional, default=9999999) The maximum confirmations to filter\n"
"3. \"addresses\" (string) A json array of bitcoin addresses to filter\n"
" [\n"