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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2018-01-30 09:59:22 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2018-01-30 09:59:28 +0100
commit288deacdbe088e72139cc4128f0d148a894bd10b (patch)
tree7cc27bc927cbcd1d228ff12d369473949f0c76cf
parent7cf1aea5cfcc7ef84c2dab7a3c55ab70babe3f7f (diff)
parentee1112122932151cee06b28ef724e0726849391b (diff)
Merge #12278: Add special error for genesis coinbase to getrawtransaction
ee11121 Add special error for genesis coinbase to gettransaction (MeshCollider) Pull request description: Suggested by sipa here: https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-core-dev/2018-01-23/?msg=96069825&page=2 Just adds a special error message for the genesis block coinbase transaction when using `getrawtransaction` Tree-SHA512: cd102c7983ec5457b299bff4b6db747d339fda157933a3ac54aec26b1e48b115aa68c1c9e6cb7a916f15c7786273ab558b2b20ab9768544d211e0ae9d1480e34
-rw-r--r--src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp5
-rwxr-xr-xtest/functional/rpc_rawtransaction.py4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp b/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp
index 82399e1567..00e73675b4 100644
--- a/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ UniValue getrawtransaction(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
uint256 hash = ParseHashV(request.params[0], "parameter 1");
CBlockIndex* blockindex = nullptr;
+ if (hash == Params().GenesisBlock().hashMerkleRoot) {
+ // Special exception for the genesis block coinbase transaction
+ throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY, "The genesis block coinbase is not considered an ordinary transaction and cannot be retrieved");
+ }
+
// Accept either a bool (true) or a num (>=1) to indicate verbose output.
bool fVerbose = false;
if (!request.params[1].isNull()) {
diff --git a/test/functional/rpc_rawtransaction.py b/test/functional/rpc_rawtransaction.py
index d39d86b310..c2ca7c70b8 100755
--- a/test/functional/rpc_rawtransaction.py
+++ b/test/functional/rpc_rawtransaction.py
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ class RawTransactionsTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
self.nodes[0].generate(5)
self.sync_all()
+ # Test getrawtransaction on genesis block coinbase returns an error
+ block = self.nodes[0].getblock(self.nodes[0].getblockhash(0))
+ assert_raises_rpc_error(-5, "The genesis block coinbase is not considered an ordinary transaction", self.nodes[0].getrawtransaction, block['merkleroot'])
+
# Test `createrawtransaction` required parameters
assert_raises_rpc_error(-1, "createrawtransaction", self.nodes[0].createrawtransaction)
assert_raises_rpc_error(-1, "createrawtransaction", self.nodes[0].createrawtransaction, [])