1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
index 2d11f4530..1c330cf5e 100644
--- a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
+++ b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
-// Copyright (c) 2009-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) 2009-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
 // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 static const char DEFAULT_RPCCONNECT[] = "127.0.0.1";
 static const int DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=900;
+static const bool DEFAULT_NAMED=false;
 static const int CONTINUE_EXECUTION=-1;
 
 std::string HelpMessageCli()
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ std::string HelpMessageCli()
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-conf=<file>", strprintf(_("Specify configuration file (default: %s)"), BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-datadir=<dir>", _("Specify data directory"));
     AppendParamsHelpMessages(strUsage);
+    strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-named", strprintf(_("Pass named instead of positional arguments (default: %s)"), DEFAULT_NAMED));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcconnect=<ip>", strprintf(_("Send commands to node running on <ip> (default: %s)"), DEFAULT_RPCCONNECT));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcport=<port>", strprintf(_("Connect to JSON-RPC on <port> (default: %u or testnet: %u)"), BaseParams(CBaseChainParams::MAIN).RPCPort(), BaseParams(CBaseChainParams::TESTNET).RPCPort()));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcwait", _("Wait for RPC server to start"));
@@ -75,11 +77,12 @@ static int AppInitRPC(int argc, char* argv[])
     // Parameters
     //
     ParseParameters(argc, argv);
-    if (argc<2 || mapArgs.count("-?") || mapArgs.count("-h") || mapArgs.count("-help") || mapArgs.count("-version")) {
+    if (argc<2 || IsArgSet("-?") || IsArgSet("-h") || IsArgSet("-help") || IsArgSet("-version")) {
         std::string strUsage = strprintf(_("%s RPC client version"), _(PACKAGE_NAME)) + " " + FormatFullVersion() + "\n";
-        if (!mapArgs.count("-version")) {
+        if (!IsArgSet("-version")) {
             strUsage += "\n" + _("Usage:") + "\n" +
                   "  bitcoin-cli [options] <command> [params]  " + strprintf(_("Send command to %s"), _(PACKAGE_NAME)) + "\n" +
+                  "  bitcoin-cli [options] -named <command> [name=value] ... " + strprintf(_("Send command to %s (with named arguments)"), _(PACKAGE_NAME)) + "\n" +
                   "  bitcoin-cli [options] help                " + _("List commands") + "\n" +
                   "  bitcoin-cli [options] help <command>      " + _("Get help for a command") + "\n";
 
@@ -94,11 +97,11 @@ static int AppInitRPC(int argc, char* argv[])
         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
     }
     if (!boost::filesystem::is_directory(GetDataDir(false))) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "Error: Specified data directory \"%s\" does not exist.\n", mapArgs["-datadir"].c_str());
+        fprintf(stderr, "Error: Specified data directory \"%s\" does not exist.\n", GetArg("-datadir", "").c_str());
         return EXIT_FAILURE;
     }
     try {
-        ReadConfigFile(GetArg("-conf", BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME), mapArgs, mapMultiArgs);
+        ReadConfigFile(GetArg("-conf", BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME));
     } catch (const std::exception& e) {
         fprintf(stderr,"Error reading configuration file: %s\n", e.what());
         return EXIT_FAILURE;
@@ -206,7 +209,7 @@ UniValue CallRPC(const std::string& strMethod, const UniValue& params)
 
     // Get credentials
     std::string strRPCUserColonPass;
-    if (mapArgs["-rpcpassword"] == "") {
+    if (GetArg("-rpcpassword", "") == "") {
         // Try fall back to cookie-based authentication if no password is provided
         if (!GetAuthCookie(&strRPCUserColonPass)) {
             throw std::runtime_error(strprintf(
@@ -215,7 +218,7 @@ UniValue CallRPC(const std::string& strMethod, const UniValue& params)
 
         }
     } else {
-        strRPCUserColonPass = mapArgs["-rpcuser"] + ":" + mapArgs["-rpcpassword"];
+        strRPCUserColonPass = GetArg("-rpcuser", "") + ":" + GetArg("-rpcpassword", "");
     }
 
     struct evkeyvalq* output_headers = evhttp_request_get_output_headers(req.get());
@@ -278,7 +281,14 @@ int CommandLineRPC(int argc, char *argv[])
         if (args.size() < 1)
             throw std::runtime_error("too few parameters (need at least command)");
         std::string strMethod = args[0];
-        UniValue params = RPCConvertValues(strMethod, std::vector<std::string>(args.begin()+1, args.end()));
+        args.erase(args.begin()); // Remove trailing method name from arguments vector
+
+        UniValue params;
+        if(GetBoolArg("-named", DEFAULT_NAMED)) {
+            params = RPCConvertNamedValues(strMethod, args);
+        } else {
+            params = RPCConvertValues(strMethod, args);
+        }
 
         // Execute and handle connection failures with -rpcwait
         const bool fWait = GetBoolArg("-rpcwait", false);