8b2ef27 tests: Test connecting with non-existing RPC cookie file (practicalswift)
a2b2476 tests: Test connecting to a non-existing server (practicalswift)
de04fde bitcoin-cli: Provide a better error message when bitcoind is not running (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Provide a better `bitcoin-cli` error message when `bitcoind` is not running.
Before this patch:
```
$ killall -9 bitcoind
$ bitcoin-cli -testnet echo 'hello world'
error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set. See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass. Configuration file: (/root/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf)
```
After this patch:
```
$ killall -9 bitcoind
$ bitcoin-cli -testnet echo 'hello world'
error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:18332
Make sure the bitcoind server is running and that you are connecting to the correct RPC port.
```
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Signed-off-by: Pasta <pasta@dashboost.org>
fae7b14a04 qa: Make TestNodeCLI command optional in send_cli (MarcoFalke)
ffffb10a9f qa: Rename cli.args to cli.options (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Makes the `command` optional, since there are valid bitcoin-cli calls that have no `command`:
* `bitcoin-cli -?`
* `bitcoin-cli -getinfo`
* ...
Also, rename self.args to self.options, since that is the name in the `bitcoin-cli -help` documentation.
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dcfef27 cli: Reject arguments to -getinfo (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
Currently it's possible to accidentally type e.g.
bitcoin-cli -getinfo getbalance
and get an answer which can be confusing; the trailing arguments are just ignored.
To avoid this, throw an error if the user provides arguments to
`-getinfo`.
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5e69a43 Add test for bitcoin-cli -getinfo (John Newbery)
3826253 rpc: Handle `getinfo` locally in bitcoin-cli w/ `-getinfo` (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
Since @laanwj doesn't want to maintain these changes anymore, I will.
This PR is a revival of #8843. I have addressed @jnewbery's comments.
Regarding atomicity, I don't think that is a concern here. This is explicitly a new API and those who use it will know that this is different and that it is not atomic.
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3918d93f3 [tests] fixups from set_test_params() (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
#11121 had a silent merge conflict in `bitcoin_cli.py`. This fixes it.
Also fixes a comment in `example_test.py`
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c6ec4358a [tests] Add bitcoin_cli.py test script (John Newbery)
b23549f6e [tests] add TestNodeCLI class for calling bitcoin-cli for a node (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
We don't test bitcoin-cli at all. That means that we can miss inconsistencies between the bitcoin-cli client and the RPC interface, such as #10698 and #10747. It also means that the various bitcoin-cli options and features are untested and regressions could be silently introduced.
Let's fix that.
This PR adds bitcoin-cli testing in the python functional test_framework:
1. Add a bitcoin_cli.py test script that tests bitcoin-cli. At the moment it only tests that the result of `getinfo` is the same if you run it as an RPC or through bitcoin-cli, but can easily be extended to test additional bitcoin-cli features
**EDIT: `--usecli` option is moved to a separate PR. This PR now only covers the bitcoin_cli.py test.**
2. ~Add a `--usecli` option to the test framework. This changes the test to use bitcoin-cli for all RPC calls instead of using direct HTTP requests. This is somewhat experimental. It works for most tests, but there are some cases where it can't work transparently because:~
- ~the testcase is asserting on a specific error code, and bitcoin-cli returns a different error code from the direct RPC~
- ~we're sending a very large RPC request (eg `submitblock`) and it can't be serialized into a shell bitcoin-cli call.~
~I think that even though `--usecli` doesn't work on all tests, it's still a useful experimental feature. Future potential enhancements:~
- ~enhance the framework to automatically skip tests that are known to fail with bitcoin-cli if the `--usecli` option is used.~
- ~run a subset of tests in Travis with `-usecli`~
This builds on and requires the `TestNode` PR #10711 . As an aside, this is a good demonstration of how tidy it is to add additional features/interfaces now that test node logic/state is encapsulated in a TestNode class.
Addresses #10791
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