Deprecate wallet-less signrawtransaction? #4844

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   sipa commented at 7:39 pm on September 4, 2014: member

   Since we now have a tool (bitcoin-tx) that can perform sign/create raw transaction and other things without a wallet present, I wonder whether the corresponding RPCs in bitcoind can’t be made require-wallet. That would get rid of the macro conditionals in the implementation.
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   laanwj commented at 10:10 am on September 5, 2014: member

   This is a good idea, but not now. When we go this way I’d like to deprecate it along with all the ‘simple utilities’ in RPC. Something for 0.11 maybe.
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   laanwj commented at 10:12 am on September 5, 2014: member

   Also about the bitcoin-tx tool: we first need a way to offer it as a library, so it can be imported from other languages. Requiring a process invocation for every operation is the shell-script way of working, with quite some overhead (more even than JSONRPC? especially on non-linux), but from Python or PHP etc you’d want a library.
4. laanwj added the label Brainstorming on Sep 5, 2014
5. laanwj added this to the milestone Future on Sep 5, 2014
6. laanwj added the label RPC on Sep 5, 2014
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   sipa commented at 10:13 am on September 5, 2014: member

   Fair enough.
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   laanwj commented at 10:22 am on September 5, 2014: member

   A bitcoin-tx library would be straightforward. On the basic level it could consist of just an entry point accepting JSON and returning JSON. That would make for easy porting. The difference with JSON-RPC being that no server is needed! Who can object to that :)
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   laanwj commented at 11:21 am on September 5, 2014: member

   @jgarzik Any idea on a library interface to bitcoin-tx?
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    achow101 commented at 11:49 pm on June 12, 2017: member

    #10579 is kind of doing this.
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    sipa commented at 6:22 am on March 30, 2018: member

    Closing, as I think #10579 sufficiently addressed this.
12. sipa closed this on Mar 30, 2018

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