getreceivedbylabel #13704

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   melaxon commented at 6:36 PM on July 18, 2018: none

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   Describe the issue bitcoin-cli getreceivedbylabel "xxx" 0 will not return any error if xxx does not exists. Not sure if this is an issue or "works as designed"

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   What version of Bitcoin Core are you using, where did you get it (website, self-compiled, etc)? 0.16.99 compiled What type of machine are you observing the error on (OS/CPU and disk type)? Ubuntu 16.04

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2. laanwj added the label RPC/REST/ZMQ on Jul 18, 2018
3. laanwj added the label Wallet on Jul 18, 2018
4. MarcoFalke added this to the milestone 0.17.0 on Jul 18, 2018
5. 
   jonasschnelli commented at 8:00 AM on July 19, 2018: contributor

   Should it return an error? IMO its more like a "filtering-technique" (by labels) and an empty list seems to be the better design choice then throwing an error.

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   melaxon commented at 3:01 PM on July 19, 2018: none

   At least something like 'false' can be returned. Now it shows the balance 0.00 Bitcoins on non-existing label, but it is not true, so it obviously is 'false'.

7. 
   meshcollider commented at 1:17 AM on July 25, 2018: contributor

   In my opinion, this seems sensible behavior as-is. If nothing is labelled with a particular label then there should be a total of 0 received by that label, I don't think its necessary not logical to return a different type if the label isn't being used.

8. 
   promag commented at 1:29 AM on July 25, 2018: member

   Use listlabels to see if the label exists? I also agree on the current behavior, and above all, can't be changed because of this.

9. MarcoFalke closed this on Jul 25, 2018

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