[wallets] [docs] Add release notes for createwallet RPC.

pull/585/head
John Newbery 7 years ago
parent 32167e8300
commit f7e153e95f

@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
Dynamic loading of wallets
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Dynamic loading and creation of wallets
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Previously, wallets could only be loaded at startup, by specifying `-wallet` parameters on the command line or in the bitcoin.conf file. It is now possible to load wallets dynamically at runtime by calling the `loadwallet` RPC.
Previously, wallets could only be loaded or created at startup, by specifying `-wallet` parameters on the command line or in the bitcoin.conf file. It is now possible to load and create wallets dynamically at runtime:
The wallet can be specified as file/directory basename (which must be located in the `walletdir` directory), or as an absolute path to a file/directory.
- Existing wallets can be loaded by calling the `loadwallet` RPC. The wallet can be specified as file/directory basename (which must be located in the `walletdir` directory), or as an absolute path to a file/directory.
- New wallets can be created (and loaded) by calling the `createwallet` RPC. The provided name must not match a wallet file in the `walletdir` directory or the name of a wallet that is currently loaded.
This feature is currently only available through the RPC interface. Wallets loaded in this way will display in the bitcoin-qt GUI.
This feature is currently only available through the RPC interface.

@ -3116,21 +3116,22 @@ UniValue loadwallet(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
UniValue createwallet(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
{
if (request.fHelp || request.params.size() != 1)
if (request.fHelp || request.params.size() != 1) {
throw std::runtime_error(
"createwallet \"wallet_name\"\n"
"\nCreates and loads a new wallet.\n"
"\nArguments:\n"
"1. \"wallet_name\" (string, required) The name for the new wallet.\n"
"1. \"wallet_name\" (string, required) The name for the new wallet. If this is a path, the wallet will be created at the path location.\n"
"\nResult:\n"
"{\n"
" \"name\" : <wallet_name>, (string) The wallet name if created successfully.\n"
" \"name\" : <wallet_name>, (string) The wallet name if created successfully. If the wallet was created using a full path, the wallet_name will be the full path.\n"
" \"warning\" : <warning>, (string) Warning message if wallet was not loaded cleanly.\n"
"}\n"
"\nExamples:\n"
+ HelpExampleCli("createwallet", "\"test.dat\"")
+ HelpExampleRpc("createwallet", "\"test.dat\"")
+ HelpExampleCli("createwallet", "\"testwallet\"")
+ HelpExampleRpc("createwallet", "\"testwallet\"")
);
}
std::string wallet_name = request.params[0].get_str();
std::string error;
std::string warning;
@ -4361,7 +4362,7 @@ static const CRPCCommand commands[] =
{ "hidden", "addwitnessaddress", &addwitnessaddress, {"address","p2sh"} },
{ "wallet", "backupwallet", &backupwallet, {"destination"} },
{ "wallet", "bumpfee", &bumpfee, {"txid", "options"} },
{ "wallet", "createwallet", &createwallet, {"filename"} },
{ "wallet", "createwallet", &createwallet, {"wallet_name"} },
{ "wallet", "dumpprivkey", &dumpprivkey, {"address"} },
{ "wallet", "dumpwallet", &dumpwallet, {"filename"} },
{ "wallet", "encryptwallet", &encryptwallet, {"passphrase"} },

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