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authorJoão Barbosa <joao.paulo.barbosa@gmail.com>2017-08-25 15:52:35 +0100
committerJoão Barbosa <joao.paulo.barbosa@gmail.com>2017-08-25 15:54:33 +0100
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@@ -619,3 +619,8 @@ A few guidelines for introducing and reviewing new RPC interfaces:
- *Rationale*: as well as complicating the implementation and interfering
with the introduction of multi-wallet, wallet and non-wallet code should be
separated to avoid introducing circular dependencies between code units.
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+- Try to make the RPC response a JSON object.
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+ - *Rationale*: If a RPC response is not a JSON object then it is harder to avoid API breakage if
+ new data in the response is needed.