gettransaction blockindex does not return height of block that includes transaction #7532

1. 
   pinheadmz commented at 9:27 pm on February 13, 2016: member

   This transaction definitely did not get confirmed in block 634!

   Is the documentation incorrect?

   https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference#gettransaction

   or…

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/62f2d769e45043c1f262ed45babb70fe237ad2bb/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp#L1724

   …or I am seriously misunderstanding the object returned by this RPC call?

    0$ gettransaction ef27b4d74497780096b466164e90ac12b1b7bd695246d4b1b232195ed168782e
    1
    2  {
    3    "account": "",
    4    "address": "1DjDpiQaWtTeK4vLFqUH9G3ZkQF2oaxmap",
    5    "category": "receive",
    6    "amount": 0.00258000,
    7    "label": "",
    8    "vout": 0,
    9    "confirmations": 7,
   10    "blockhash": "000000000000000000ca6aa53efc2b89b82eca3e2dfcd942951e2b3fdfae6e67",
   11    "blockindex": 634,
   12    "blocktime": 1455395504,
   13    "txid": "ef27b4d74497780096b466164e90ac12b1b7bd695246d4b1b232195ed168782e",
   14    "walletconflicts": [
   15    ],
   16    "time": 1455394848,
   17    "timereceived": 1455394848,
   18    "bip125-replaceable": "no"
   19  }
   

2. 
   sipa commented at 9:28 pm on February 13, 2016: member

   It’s the position of the transaction in the block. To know the height at which it confirmed, look at the confirmations.
3. 
   pinheadmz commented at 9:41 pm on February 13, 2016: member

   Ok. Developer guide is wrong and bitcoind help is a little confusing. Maybe I’ll make a few little PRs
4. 
   laanwj commented at 12:39 pm on February 15, 2016: member

   Seems to work as intended, closing
5. laanwj closed this on Feb 15, 2016

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