Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#23002: Make descriptor wallets by default

9c1052a5218e191fd23c0d9fc06f2fca34b03411 wallet: Default new wallets to descriptor wallets (Andrew Chow)
f19ad404631010a5e2dac2c7cbecd057b005fe2a rpc, wallet: Descriptor wallets are no longer experimental (Andrew Chow)

Pull request description:

  Changes the default wallet type from legacy to descriptors. Descriptor wallets will now by the default type. Additionally, descriptor wallets will no longer be marked as experimental.

  This follows the timeline proposed in #20160

ACKs for top commit:
  lsilva01:
    Tested ACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23002/commits/9c1052a5218e191fd23c0d9fc06f2fca34b03411 on Ubuntu 20.04
  prayank23:
    tACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23002/commits/9c1052a5218e191fd23c0d9fc06f2fca34b03411
  meshcollider:
    Code review ACK 9c1052a5218e191fd23c0d9fc06f2fca34b03411

Tree-SHA512: 834e6fec88e0c18673af7ebe135bd5333694d1be502164eb93a90e3e76c27974165aa4e59426945100c88e4eca07356e16886ef5b05cf789683ecb23fc71a12a

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/wallet/wallettool.cpp b/src/wallet/wallettool.cpp
index 788679bbeb..88f0a2ce20 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallettool.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallettool.cpp
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ bool ExecuteWalletToolFunc(const ArgsManager& args, const std::string& command)
         tfm::format(std::cerr, "The -descriptors option can only be used with the 'create' command.\n");
         return false;
     }
+    if (args.IsArgSet("-legacy") && command != "create") {
+        tfm::format(std::cerr, "The -legacy option can only be used with the 'create' command.\n");
+        return false;
+    }
     if (command == "create" && !args.IsArgSet("-wallet")) {
         tfm::format(std::cerr, "Wallet name must be provided when creating a new wallet.\n");
         return false;
@@ -130,7 +134,19 @@ bool ExecuteWalletToolFunc(const ArgsManager& args, const std::string& command)
     if (command == "create") {
         DatabaseOptions options;
         options.require_create = true;
-        if (args.GetBoolArg("-descriptors", false)) {
+        // If -legacy is set, use it. Otherwise default to false.
+        bool make_legacy = args.GetBoolArg("-legacy", false);
+        // If neither -legacy nor -descriptors is set, default to true. If -descriptors is set, use its value.
+        bool make_descriptors = (!args.IsArgSet("-descriptors") && !args.IsArgSet("-legacy")) || (args.IsArgSet("-descriptors") && args.GetBoolArg("-descriptors", true));
+        if (make_legacy && make_descriptors) {
+            tfm::format(std::cerr, "Only one of -legacy or -descriptors can be set to true, not both\n");
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (!make_legacy && !make_descriptors) {
+            tfm::format(std::cerr, "One of -legacy or -descriptors must be set to true (or omitted)\n");
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (make_descriptors) {
             options.create_flags |= WALLET_FLAG_DESCRIPTORS;
             options.require_format = DatabaseFormat::SQLITE;
         }