From 481f289765fab47ff2e0bd7dfb968f2bd92fd608 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:56:29 +0100 Subject: rpc: Named argument support for bitcoin-cli Usage e.g.: $ src/bitcoin-cli -testnet -named echo arg0="dfdf" [ "dfdf" ] Argument conversion also works, for arguments thus flagged in the table in `src/rpc/client.cpp`. $ src/bitcoin-cli -testnet -named echojson arg0="[1,2,3]" [ [ 1, 2, 3 ] ] Unknown parameter (detected server-side): $ src/bitcoin-cli -testnet -named getinfo arg0="dfdf" error code: -8 error message: Unknown named parameter arg0 --- src/rpc/misc.cpp | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/rpc/misc.cpp') diff --git a/src/rpc/misc.cpp b/src/rpc/misc.cpp index e95f42236..01e4dee55 100644 --- a/src/rpc/misc.cpp +++ b/src/rpc/misc.cpp @@ -496,8 +496,10 @@ UniValue echo(const JSONRPCRequest& request) { if (request.fHelp) throw runtime_error( - "echo \"message\" ...\n" - "\nSimply echo back the input arguments\n" + "echo|echojson \"message\" ...\n" + "\nSimply echo back the input arguments. This command is for testing.\n" + "\nThe difference between echo and echojson is that echojson has argument conversion enabled in the client-side table in" + "bitcoin-cli and the GUI. There is no server-side difference." ); return request.params; @@ -516,6 +518,7 @@ static const CRPCCommand commands[] = /* Not shown in help */ { "hidden", "setmocktime", &setmocktime, true, {"timestamp"}}, { "hidden", "echo", &echo, true, {"arg0","arg1","arg2","arg3","arg4","arg5","arg6","arg7","arg8","arg9"}}, + { "hidden", "echojson", &echo, true, {"arg0","arg1","arg2","arg3","arg4","arg5","arg6","arg7","arg8","arg9"}}, }; void RegisterMiscRPCCommands(CRPCTable &t) -- cgit v1.2.3