8925df86c4 doc: update release notes (Jon Atack)
8bb405bbad test: getaddressinfo labels purpose deprecation test (Jon Atack)
60aba1f2f1 rpc: simplify getaddressinfo labels, deprecate previous behavior (Jon Atack)
7851f14ccf rpc: incorporate review feedback from PR 17283 (Jon Atack)
Pull request description:
This PR builds on #17283 (now merged) and is followed by #17585.
It modifies the value returned by rpc getaddressinfo `labels` to an array of label name strings and deprecates the previous behavior of returning an array of JSON hash structures containing label `name` and address `purpose` key/value pairs.
before
```
"labels": [
{
"name": "DOUBLE SPEND",
"purpose": "receive"
}
```
after
```
"labels": [
"DOUBLE SPEND"
]
```
The deprecated behavior can be re-enabled by starting bitcoind with `-deprecatedrpc=labelspurpose`.
For context, see:
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/17283#issuecomment-554458001
- http://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2019-12-13.html#l-425 (lines 425-427)
- http://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2019-11-22.html#l-622
Reviewers: This PR may be tested manually by building, then running bitcoind with and without the `-deprecatedrpc=labelspurpose` flag while verifying the rpc getaddressinfo help text and `labels` output.
Next steps: deprecate the rpc getaddressinfo `label` field (EDIT: done in #17585) and add support for multiple labels per address. This PR will unblock those.
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- change the value returned in the RPC getaddressinfo `labels` field to an array
of label name strings
- deprecate the previous behavior of returning a JSON hash structure containing
label `name` and address `purpose` key/value pairs
- update the relevant tests
In advance of deprecating the generate RPC method, make some small
changes to a small number of inidividual test cases:
- make memory checking less prescriptive in wallet_basic.py
- replace calls to generate with generatetoaddress in wallet_keypool.py
- replace calls to generate with generatetoaddress and fixup label
issues in wallet_labels.py
- replace calls to generate with generatetoaddress in wallet_multiwallet.py
labels are associated with addresses (rather than addresses being
associated with labels, as was the case with accounts). The
getlabeladdress does not make sense in this model, so remove it.
getaccountaddress is still supported for one release as the accounts
API is deprecated.
Future commits will deprecate the accounts RPC methods, arguments and
return objects. Set the -deprecatedrpc=accounts switch now so tests
don't break in intermediate commits.
Add label API to wallet RPC.
This is one step towards #3816 ("Remove bolt-on account system") although it doesn't
actually remove anything yet.
These initially mirror the account functions, with the following differences:
- These functions aren't DEPRECATED in the help
- Help mentions 'label' instead of accounts. In the language used, labels are
associated with addresses, instead of addresses associated with labels. (unlike
with accounts.)
- Labels have no balance
- No balances in `listlabels`
- `listlabels` has no minconf or watchonly argument
- Like in the GUI, labels can be set on any address, not just receiving addreses
- Unlike accounts, labels can be deleted.
Being unable to delete them is a common annoyance (see #1231).
Currently only by reassigning all addresses using `setlabel`, but an explicit
call `deletelabel` which assigns all address to the default label may make
sense.
Thanks to Pierre Rochard for test fixes.
