Merge #11117: Prepare for non-Base58 addresses

864cd2787 Move CBitcoinAddress to base58.cpp (Pieter Wuille)
5c8ff0d44 Introduce wrappers around CBitcoinAddress (Pieter Wuille)

Pull request description:

  This patch removes the need for the intermediary Base58 type `CBitcoinAddress`, by providing {`Encode`,`Decode`,`IsValid`}`Destination` functions that directly operate on the conversion between `std::string`s and `CTxDestination`.

  As a side, it also fixes a number of indentation issues, and removes probably several unnecessary implicit `CTxDestination`<->`CBitcoinAddress` conversions.

  This change is far from complete. In follow-ups I'd like to:
  * Split off the specific address and key encoding logic from base58.h, and move it to a address.h or so.
  * Replace `CTxDestination` with a non-`boost::variant` version (which can be more efficient as `boost::variant` allocates everything on the heap, and remove the need for `boost::get<...>` and `IsValidDestination` calls everywhere).
  * Do the same for `CBitcoinSecret`, `CBitcoinExtKey`, and `CBitcoinExtPubKey`.

  However, I've tried to keep this patch to be minimally invasive, but still enough to support non-Base58 addresses. Perhaps a smaller patch is possible to hack Bech32 support into `CBitcoinAddress`, but I would consider that a move in the wrong direction.

Tree-SHA512: c2c77ffb57caeadf2429b1c2562ce60e8c7be8aa9f8e51b591f354b6b441162625b2efe14c023a1ae485cf2ed417263afa35c892891dfaa7844e7fbabccab85e

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/script/standard.h b/src/script/standard.h
index 7619192264..8df143a3a3 100644
--- a/src/script/standard.h
+++ b/src/script/standard.h
@@ -77,10 +77,13 @@ public:
  *  * CNoDestination: no destination set
  *  * CKeyID: TX_PUBKEYHASH destination
  *  * CScriptID: TX_SCRIPTHASH destination
- *  A CTxDestination is the internal data type encoded in a CBitcoinAddress
+ *  A CTxDestination is the internal data type encoded in a bitcoin address
  */
 typedef boost::variant<CNoDestination, CKeyID, CScriptID> CTxDestination;
 
+/** Check whether a CTxDestination is a CNoDestination. */
+bool IsValidDestination(const CTxDestination& dest);
+
 /** Get the name of a txnouttype as a C string, or nullptr if unknown. */
 const char* GetTxnOutputType(txnouttype t);