Here is a patch that implements (in a hacky way) what I was trying to suggest on IRC:
http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/w/bitcoind/luke-jr.git/commitdiff/eb5778feee7bc1e742620b149e265342832a745b
Changing category of a transaction is rather ugly, especially when the same status concept applies to regular transactions as well.
Topic: [PULL] Report immature coinbase txns in listtransactions (Read 2187 times)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/138
I think this is ready:
I found one edge case during testing, and after discussion on #bitcoin-dev changed the information reported. The edge case was reporting the coinbase transactions from orphaned blocks. Here's the scenario:
+ As soon as you generate a block, the coinbase transaction goes into your wallet as a 1-confirmation transaction. Before this patch, that transaction was not listed in the listtransactions output. With this patch, it is (as "category" : "immature", "confirmations" : 1).
+ If that block is orphaned, the coinbase transaction is no longer valid. With this patch, it will be reported at "category" : "orphan", "confirmations" : 0
+ When a coinbase transaction has 120 confirmations, it will be reported as "category" : "generate" (as before).
I think this is ready:
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This patch adds immature generated blocks to listtransactions. They are reported just like mature blocks, except the category is 'immature' instead of 'generate'.
This functionality is needed by people creating alternative, JSON-RPC-based GUIs, and is useful for impatient miners who currently grep through debug.log or use unofficial patches to see not-yet-mature blocks they've generated.
This functionality is needed by people creating alternative, JSON-RPC-based GUIs, and is useful for impatient miners who currently grep through debug.log or use unofficial patches to see not-yet-mature blocks they've generated.
I found one edge case during testing, and after discussion on #bitcoin-dev changed the information reported. The edge case was reporting the coinbase transactions from orphaned blocks. Here's the scenario:
+ As soon as you generate a block, the coinbase transaction goes into your wallet as a 1-confirmation transaction. Before this patch, that transaction was not listed in the listtransactions output. With this patch, it is (as "category" : "immature", "confirmations" : 1).
+ If that block is orphaned, the coinbase transaction is no longer valid. With this patch, it will be reported at "category" : "orphan", "confirmations" : 0
+ When a coinbase transaction has 120 confirmations, it will be reported as "category" : "generate" (as before).
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