multiwallet `validateaddress` tells me `ismine: false` without -rpcwallet arg #11324

issue dooglus opened this issue on September 13, 2017

dooglus commented at 6:22 PM on September 13, 2017: contributor
In master branch, 96ac26e56627f0c24213fcd3a1cce9fc95f1f661:

I have two wallets loaded. I have the same privkey in both of them, but when I check using validateaddress it tells me "ismine": false,:
```
$ bitcoin-cli validateaddress $addr | grep ismine
  "ismine": false,
$ bitcoin-cli -rpcwallet=wallet.dat validateaddress $addr | grep ismine
  "ismine": true,
```
Perhaps we shouldn't include ismine and iswatchonly in the output if we don't know which wallet we're talking about.
achow101 commented at 7:25 PM on September 13, 2017: member

validateaddress requests which wallet to use, but with multiple wallets, when a wallet is not specified, a nullptr is returned. This then results in validateaddress return ISMINE_NO because it does not have a wallet to use. This may actually be an issue with some other RPC calls that are not dedicated wallet RPCs (e.g. signrawtransaction).

#10583 should fix this problem as it makes a dedicated RPC call for the wallet stuff of validateaddress.
promag commented at 7:47 PM on September 13, 2017: member

@dooglus FYI #10849 (comment).
fanquake added the label RPC/REST/ZMQ on Sep 14, 2017
jarolrod commented at 4:01 AM on January 14, 2021: member

@fanquake can this be closed? #10583 addresses this and was merged.
fanquake closed this on Jan 14, 2021
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