Because we don't have type checking for command-line/settings/config
args, strings are interpreted as 'false' for non-boolean args.
By convention, this "forces" us to interpret negated strings as 'true',
which conflicts with the negated option definition in all the settings
classes (they expect negated options to always be false and ignore any
other value preceding them). Consequently, when retrieving all "wallet"
values from the command-line/settings/config, we also fetch the negated
string boolean value, which is not of the expected 'string' type.
This mismatch leads to an internal fatal error, resulting in an unclean
shutdown during initialization. Furthermore, this error displays a poorly
descriptive error message:
"JSON value of type bool is not of expected type string"
This commit fixes the fatal error by ensuring that only string values are
returned in the "wallet" settings list, failing otherwise. It also improves
the clarity of the returned error message.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
Hopefully, refraining users from modifying the file unless they are
certain about the potential consequences.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
The preceding "Unable to parse settings file" message lacked
the necessary detail and guidance for users on what steps to
take next in order to resolve the startup error.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
Instead of passing the datadir and chain name to os.path.join, just use
the existing properties, which are the same.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
sed -i --regexp-extended 's|\.datadir, self\.chain, .wallets.|.wallets_path|g' $(git grep -l '\.datadir, self\.chain,')
sed -i --regexp-extended 's|\.datadir, self\.chain,|.chain_path,|g' $(git grep -l '\.datadir, self\.chain,')
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
The previous diff touched most files in ./test/, so bump the headers to
avoid having to touch them again for a bump later.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
./contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py update ./test/
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
fa48405ef8 Warn on unknown rw_settings (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Log a warning to debug log if unknown settings are encountered. This should probably only ever happen when the software is upgraded.
Something similar is already done for the command line and config file. See:
* test: Add test for unknown args #16234 (commit fa7dd88b71)
ACKs for top commit:
ryanofsky:
Code review ACK fa48405ef8. Looks good and I could see this being helpful for debugging. Thanks for taking suggestions
Tree-SHA512: cec7d88adf84fa0a842f56b26245157736eb50df433db951e622ea07fd145b899822b24cdab1d8b36c066415ce4f0ef09b493fa8a8d691532822a59c573aafa7
- Get rid of hardcoded wallet "" names and -wallet="" args
- Get rid of setup_nodes (-wallet, -nowallet, -disablewallet) argument rewriting
Motivation:
- Simplify test framework behavior so it's easier to write new tests without
having arguments mangled by the framework
- Make tests more readable, replacing unexplained "" string literals with
default_wallet_name references
- Make it trivial to update default wallet name and wallet data filename for
sqlite #19077 testing
- Stop relying on -wallet arguments to create wallets, so it is easy to change
-wallet option in the future to only load existing wallets not create new
ones (to avoid accidental wallet creation, and encourage use of wallet
encryption and descriptor features)
Persistent settings are used in followup PRs #15936 to unify gui settings
between bitcoin-qt and bitcoind, and #15937 to add a load_on_startup flag to
the loadwallet RPC and maintain a dynamic list of wallets that should be loaded
on startup that also can be shared between bitcoind and bitcoin-qt.
furszy