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-rw-r--r--src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp b/src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp
index 936432bacb..0b021f9fe0 100644
--- a/src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ UniValue importprivkey(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
"1. \"privkey\" (string, required) The private key (see dumpprivkey)\n"
"2. \"label\" (string, optional, default=\"\") An optional label\n"
"3. rescan (boolean, optional, default=true) Rescan the wallet for transactions\n"
- "\nNote: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true.\n"
+ "\nNote: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls\n"
+ "may report that the imported key exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.\n"
"\nExamples:\n"
"\nDump a private key\n"
+ HelpExampleCli("dumpprivkey", "\"myaddress\"") +
@@ -241,7 +242,8 @@ UniValue importaddress(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
"2. \"label\" (string, optional, default=\"\") An optional label\n"
"3. rescan (boolean, optional, default=true) Rescan the wallet for transactions\n"
"4. p2sh (boolean, optional, default=false) Add the P2SH version of the script as well\n"
- "\nNote: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true.\n"
+ "\nNote: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls\n"
+ "may report that the imported address exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.\n"
"If you have the full public key, you should call importpubkey instead of this.\n"
"\nNote: If you import a non-standard raw script in hex form, outputs sending to it will be treated\n"
"as change, and not show up in many RPCs.\n"
@@ -416,7 +418,8 @@ UniValue importpubkey(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
"1. \"pubkey\" (string, required) The hex-encoded public key\n"
"2. \"label\" (string, optional, default=\"\") An optional label\n"
"3. rescan (boolean, optional, default=true) Rescan the wallet for transactions\n"
- "\nNote: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true.\n"
+ "\nNote: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls\n"
+ "may report that the imported pubkey exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.\n"
"\nExamples:\n"
"\nImport a public key with rescan\n"
+ HelpExampleCli("importpubkey", "\"mypubkey\"") +
@@ -1133,6 +1136,8 @@ UniValue importmulti(const JSONRPCRequest& mainRequest)
" {\n"
" \"rescan\": <false>, (boolean, optional, default: true) Stating if should rescan the blockchain after all imports\n"
" }\n"
+ "\nNote: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls\n"
+ "may report that the imported keys, addresses or scripts exists but related transactions are still missing.\n"
"\nExamples:\n" +
HelpExampleCli("importmulti", "'[{ \"scriptPubKey\": { \"address\": \"<my address>\" }, \"timestamp\":1455191478 }, "
"{ \"scriptPubKey\": { \"address\": \"<my 2nd address>\" }, \"label\": \"example 2\", \"timestamp\": 1455191480 }]'") +