"listaccounts" and "labels" : why is it this way ?

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Quote from: heretolearn on February 25, 2014, 03:40:36 PM

Quote from: syslog on February 25, 2014, 09:15:51 AM

accounts & labels are the same,

basically when you call listaccounts call it will show you accounts as key and balance as value ( it's quite usefull when you have multiple addresses pointed an account(label)

i think getaccountaddress call is what you are looking for .

PS: btc supports rpc2.0 this makes your life easier.

I tried getaccountaddress and found stange results, it sometimes generates a new address with the same label as the argument !! How does that work ?

Also any link as to how and what advantages rpc2.0 has when used with btc ?

Oh, i made a mistake. your call should be getaddressesbyaccount not ~~getaccountaddress~~ (this actually returns only address)

about rpc2.0 http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#examples

I'm sorry for the mistake.

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Quote from: davidpbrown on February 25, 2014, 09:22:20 AM

Accounts surely are a sum of addresses. So, what you've described makes sense.

If you want a list by addresseses then try
listreceivedbyaddress 0 true
which, if I've remembered that correctly, will list all addresses even with zero balance and their label.

List by account then, from what you've described, groups by label =='account'.

Hmm that helped clear some doubts. Thanks.

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Quote from: syslog on February 25, 2014, 09:15:51 AM

accounts & labels are the same,

basically when you call listaccounts call it will show you accounts as key and balance as value ( it's quite usefull when you have multiple addresses pointed an account(label)

i think getaccountaddress call is what you are looking for .

PS: btc supports rpc2.0 this makes your life easier.

I tried getaccountaddress and found stange results, it sometimes generates a new address with the same label as the argument !! How does that work ?

Also any link as to how and what advantages rpc2.0 has when used with btc ?

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Quote from: heretolearn on February 25, 2014, 08:06:29 AM

I tried to make a new address and have the same label for two addresses. When I typed "listaccounts" it showed me only the label which was the same for both addresses.

When I change the label to something else then all the addresses according to labels are listed.

Why does listaccounts show according to labels ? I mean to ask what is the logic behind it. Wouldnt showing by addresses be more meaningful ?

Accounts surely are a sum of addresses. So, what you've described makes sense.

If you want a list by addresseses then try
listreceivedbyaddress 0 true
which, if I've remembered that correctly, will list all addresses even with zero balance and their label.

List by account then, from what you've described, groups by label =='account'.

syslog

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accounts & labels are the same,

basically when you call listaccounts call it will show you accounts as key and balance as value ( it's quite usefull when you have multiple addresses pointed an account(label)

i think ~~getaccountaddress~~ getaddressesbyaccount call is what you are looking for .

PS: btc supports rpc2.0 this makes your life easier.

heretolearn

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I tried to make a new address and have the same label for two addresses. When I typed "listaccounts" it showed me only the label which was the same for both addresses.

When I change the label to something else then all the addresses according to labels are listed.

Why does listaccounts show according to labels ? I mean to ask what is the logic behind it. Wouldnt showing by addresses be more meaningful ?

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