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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-11-22 14:56:29 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-01-10 12:04:54 +0100
commit481f289765fab47ff2e0bd7dfb968f2bd92fd608 (patch)
treed7ad238c4842bc4fa6c9a05ae8aef395029d1835 /src/rpc/misc.cpp
parent9adb4e1a59d54788e204895aaff5d6cbefd1b97a (diff)
downloadbitcoin-481f289765fab47ff2e0bd7dfb968f2bd92fd608.tar.xz
rpc: Named argument support for bitcoin-cli
Usage e.g.: $ src/bitcoin-cli -testnet -named echo arg0="dfdf" [ "dfdf" ] Argument conversion also works, for arguments thus flagged in the table in `src/rpc/client.cpp`. $ src/bitcoin-cli -testnet -named echojson arg0="[1,2,3]" [ [ 1, 2, 3 ] ] Unknown parameter (detected server-side): $ src/bitcoin-cli -testnet -named getinfo arg0="dfdf" error code: -8 error message: Unknown named parameter arg0
Diffstat (limited to 'src/rpc/misc.cpp')
-rw-r--r--src/rpc/misc.cpp7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/rpc/misc.cpp b/src/rpc/misc.cpp
index e95f422366..01e4dee55b 100644
--- a/src/rpc/misc.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/misc.cpp
@@ -496,8 +496,10 @@ UniValue echo(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
{
if (request.fHelp)
throw runtime_error(
- "echo \"message\" ...\n"
- "\nSimply echo back the input arguments\n"
+ "echo|echojson \"message\" ...\n"
+ "\nSimply echo back the input arguments. This command is for testing.\n"
+ "\nThe difference between echo and echojson is that echojson has argument conversion enabled in the client-side table in"
+ "bitcoin-cli and the GUI. There is no server-side difference."
);
return request.params;
@@ -516,6 +518,7 @@ static const CRPCCommand commands[] =
/* Not shown in help */
{ "hidden", "setmocktime", &setmocktime, true, {"timestamp"}},
{ "hidden", "echo", &echo, true, {"arg0","arg1","arg2","arg3","arg4","arg5","arg6","arg7","arg8","arg9"}},
+ { "hidden", "echojson", &echo, true, {"arg0","arg1","arg2","arg3","arg4","arg5","arg6","arg7","arg8","arg9"}},
};
void RegisterMiscRPCCommands(CRPCTable &t)