Re: jsonrpc library and bitcoinrpc-info

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

Wait. What exactly did you commit? I can not see anything bitcoin or
jsonrpc related in the svn. Something creds related?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Fyodor wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:44:04AM +0200, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> > > > o Regarding "@args creds.global", won't NSEDoc already catch and print
> > > > that since the script is requiring the creds library?  I don't know if
> > > > mentioning it explicitly will cause any problems.
> > >
> > > This one is not as straight forward. While the creds library offers
> > > this functionality and processes the argument, few or no script make
> > > use of it.  So while including the library will populate a table
> > > with the credentials, it's up to the script to make use of them.
> > > The script could be using the cred library for other functionality,
> > > such as the standardized output of discovered credentials (the brute
> > > scripts).  I don't know the best way to handle this, but wouldn't it
> > > make sense to document the argument in those scripts that use it
> > > instead of the library?
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification.  I guess I assumed that the arguments
> > were already documented in @args in creds.lua and so they would
> > already be on the bitcoinrpc-info page anyway.
> >
> > If the creds library documented its @args, then they the list of them
> > would be automatically included for the creds-using scripts.  But I
> > can see how it might cause some confusion that some of the args
> > wouldn't be useful for a given script.  It is a tough call.
> >
> > But if creds is not going to document official @args, it is probably
> > worth including a list of them in the creds library description text
> > so that users (both script developers using the library and end-users)
> > know what the arguments are and what they do.  Script developers need
> > to know that they are in charge of putting the useful ones into their
> > own @args too.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Fyodor
>
> I've made an attempt to document this and committed it as r25348.
>
> //Patrik
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