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authorfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2021-11-17 09:55:19 +0800
committerfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2021-11-17 09:55:27 +0800
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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#23522: Improve fs::PathToString documentation
9b575f1c734c052b695ce921fb6412b22c18fdb4 Improve fs::PathToString documentation (Russell Yanofsky) Pull request description: Add a developer note about avoiding `fs::PathToString` in RPCs, and improve some other `fs::PathToString` comments. Developer note might have been useful in two recent review comments: - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23398#discussion_r741585271 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23155#discussion_r749824259 ACKs for top commit: laanwj: Documentation review ACK 9b575f1c734c052b695ce921fb6412b22c18fdb4 jamesob: ACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23522/commits/9b575f1c734c052b695ce921fb6412b22c18fdb4 prayank23: ACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23522/commits/9b575f1c734c052b695ce921fb6412b22c18fdb4 hebasto: ACK 9b575f1c734c052b695ce921fb6412b22c18fdb4 shaavan: ACK 9b575f1c734c052b695ce921fb6412b22c18fdb4 Tree-SHA512: b8b3ecb6208c3897241e4f24dcec64fe7cf091bc79388862cf5f4b315cb8e804939981c4bed4c81dbff99ec9f750bad99015d0f04890704ac9df63c2a6719b6d
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@@ -1254,6 +1254,12 @@ A few guidelines for introducing and reviewing new RPC interfaces:
- *Rationale*: User-facing consistency.
+- Use `fs::path::u8string()` and `fs::u8path()` functions when converting path
+ to JSON strings, not `fs::PathToString` and `fs::PathFromString`
+
+ - *Rationale*: JSON strings are Unicode strings, not byte strings, and
+ RFC8259 requires JSON to be encoded as UTF-8.
+
Internal interface guidelines
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