init: Allow -proxy="" setting values

This drops the `No proxy server specified. Use -proxy=<ip> or -proxy=<ip:port>`
error when a empty `-proxy=` command line argument, `bitcoin.conf` value, or
`settings.json` value is specified, and just makes bitcoin connect and listen
normally in these cases.

The error was originally added in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20003
to prevent a bare `-proxy` command line argument with no assignment from
clearing proxy settings. But it was implemented in an overbroad way breaking
empty `-proxy=` assignments as well.

The motivation for this change is to prevent a GUI bug that happens with
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15936, reported in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15936#pullrequestreview-937685759 by
vasild, that happens after a proxy setting is enabled and disabled in the GUI.
But this change also makes sense on its own to remove a potentially confusing
error message.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/system.cpp b/src/util/system.cpp
index a7e66defcd..b0138e1d51 100644
--- a/src/util/system.cpp
+++ b/src/util/system.cpp
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ KeyInfo InterpretKey(std::string key)
  * @return parsed settings value if it is valid, otherwise nullopt accompanied
  * by a descriptive error string
  */
-static std::optional<util::SettingsValue> InterpretValue(const KeyInfo& key, const std::string& value,
+static std::optional<util::SettingsValue> InterpretValue(const KeyInfo& key, const std::string* value,
                                                          unsigned int flags, std::string& error)
 {
     // Return negated settings as false values.
@@ -246,13 +246,17 @@ static std::optional<util::SettingsValue> InterpretValue(const KeyInfo& key, con
             return std::nullopt;
         }
         // Double negatives like -nofoo=0 are supported (but discouraged)
-        if (!InterpretBool(value)) {
-            LogPrintf("Warning: parsed potentially confusing double-negative -%s=%s\n", key.name, value);
+        if (value && !InterpretBool(*value)) {
+            LogPrintf("Warning: parsed potentially confusing double-negative -%s=%s\n", key.name, *value);
             return true;
         }
         return false;
     }
-    return value;
+    if (!value && (flags & ArgsManager::DISALLOW_ELISION)) {
+        error = strprintf("Can not set -%s with no value. Please specify value with -%s=value.", key.name, key.name);
+        return std::nullopt;
+    }
+    return value ? *value : "";
 }
 
 // Define default constructor and destructor that are not inline, so code instantiating this class doesn't need to
@@ -320,7 +324,7 @@ bool ArgsManager::ParseParameters(int argc, const char* const argv[], std::strin
 #endif
 
         if (key == "-") break; //bitcoin-tx using stdin
-        std::string val;
+        std::optional<std::string> val;
         size_t is_index = key.find('=');
         if (is_index != std::string::npos) {
             val = key.substr(is_index + 1);
@@ -366,7 +370,7 @@ bool ArgsManager::ParseParameters(int argc, const char* const argv[], std::strin
             return false;
         }
 
-        std::optional<util::SettingsValue> value = InterpretValue(keyinfo, val, *flags, error);
+        std::optional<util::SettingsValue> value = InterpretValue(keyinfo, val ? &*val : nullptr, *flags, error);
         if (!value) return false;
 
         m_settings.command_line_options[keyinfo.name].push_back(*value);
@@ -887,7 +891,7 @@ bool ArgsManager::ReadConfigStream(std::istream& stream, const std::string& file
         KeyInfo key = InterpretKey(option.first);
         std::optional<unsigned int> flags = GetArgFlags('-' + key.name);
         if (flags) {
-            std::optional<util::SettingsValue> value = InterpretValue(key, option.second, *flags, error);
+            std::optional<util::SettingsValue> value = InterpretValue(key, &option.second, *flags, error);
             if (!value) {
                 return false;
             }