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-rw-r--r--src/rpc/mining.cpp2
-rw-r--r--src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/rpc/mining.cpp b/src/rpc/mining.cpp
index c565b9b4f9..25cfc69da9 100644
--- a/src/rpc/mining.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/mining.cpp
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ static UniValue generatetoaddress(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
"\nExamples:\n"
"\nGenerate 11 blocks to myaddress\n"
+ HelpExampleCli("generatetoaddress", "11 \"myaddress\"")
+ + "If you are running the bitcoin core wallet, you can get a new address to send the newly generated bitcoin to with:\n"
+ + HelpExampleCli("getnewaddress", "")
);
int nGenerate = request.params[0].get_int();
diff --git a/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp b/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp
index a3f5f8b211..ea5177b086 100644
--- a/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp
@@ -3321,6 +3321,12 @@ UniValue generate(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
);
}
+ if (!IsDeprecatedRPCEnabled("generate")) {
+ throw JSONRPCError(RPC_METHOD_DEPRECATED, "The wallet generate rpc method is deprecated and will be fully removed in v0.19. "
+ "To use generate in v0.18, restart bitcoind with -deprecatedrpc=generate.\n"
+ "Clients should transition to using the node rpc method generatetoaddress\n");
+ }
+
int num_generate = request.params[0].get_int();
uint64_t max_tries = 1000000;
if (!request.params[1].isNull()) {