Bitcoin-abc: Multi-wallet support

[hieu-van]

Does Bitcoin ABC support multi-wallet like Bitcoin Core? If not, consider this a feature request, or I will close it myself.

[jasonbcox]

yes, Bitcoin ABC supports multi-wallet functionality.

[hieu-van]

Thank you. Can you please give me some documentation on this functionality? For example I'm used to _loadwallet_ function in Core but I don't know its counterpart in ABC. I'm running 0.19.8

Perhaps it's not really multi-wallet, but _account_ feature?

[jasonbcox]

loadwallet appears to be an RPC for loading new wallets without needing to restart bitcoind. If you simply need multi-wallet support, you can start bitcoind with multiple -wallet=xxx args. We do not yet have support for loadwallet, but we can look into it.

[espriweb]

Hi, I apologize in advance for not being sufficiently prepared, with bitcoin core I create a new wallet using RPC using the "createwallet" command but with bitcoin abc I can't find a similar command, when I use "createwallet" it returns the error " Method not found ".

You can help me?

[jasonbcox]

We are still in the process of backporting some of Bitcoin Core's wallet RPC commands, so createwallet is not yet available for creating new wallets at runtime. However, you can call bitcoind -wallet=<path-to-current-wallet> -wallet=<path-to-new-wallet> and the new wallet file will be created for you.

[espriweb]

Thanks for the support, but to create a new wallet I have to stop and restart the blockchain, isn't there a trick to avoid restarting the blockchain?

Another thing, but where do I find the complete list of json-rpc commands?

Thanks for your patience

We are still in the process of backporting some of Bitcoin Core's wallet RPC commands, so createwallet is not yet available for creating new wallets at runtime. However, you can call bitcoind -wallet=<path-to-current-wallet> -wallet=<path-to-new-wallet> and the new wallet file will be created for you.

[jasonbcox]

Currently, we don't have a way to load a wallet at runtime, so even if you could create one, the software would not pick it up. We'll be looking into this.

For a list of RPC commands, see bitcoin-cli help.

[espriweb]

Thank you very much, I am creating a multiwallet and I only need BCH I would like to use bitcoin-abc because yours is a nice community of developers.

Thanks and good future to all!

[espriweb]

Jason @jasonbcox thanks for the changes in v0.20.4 version, really good and fast work, congratulations to all the staff of programmers

[jasonbcox]

Cheers @espriweb. Just note that 0.20.4 only includes createwallet, but loadwallet won't be ready likely until 0.20.5. createwallet will both create and load the wallet the first time, but successive calls on the same file will not work. In the mean time, if you need to restart bitcoind, just pass in as many -wallet <file> arguments as needed.

[hieu-van]

Haven't updated for a long time. Thank all of you for all the work! :tada: