#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright (c) 2025 The Bitcoin Core developers # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. """Test IPC with bitcoin-cli""" from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework from test_framework.util import ( assert_equal, rpc_port ) import subprocess class TestBitcoinIpcCli(BitcoinTestFramework): def set_test_params(self): self.setup_clean_chain = True self.num_nodes = 1 def skip_test_if_missing_module(self): self.skip_if_no_ipc() def setup_nodes(self): self.extra_init = [{"ipcbind": True}] super().setup_nodes() def test_cli(self, args, error=None): # Intentionally set wrong RPC password so only IPC not HTTP connections work args = [self.binary_paths.bitcoincli, f"-datadir={self.nodes[0].datadir_path}", "-rpcpassword=wrong"] + args + ["echo", "foo"] result = subprocess.run(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, text=True) if error is None: assert_equal(result.stdout, '[\n "foo"\n]\n') else: assert result.stdout.startswith(error), f"Output didn't start with the expected error {error!r}:\n{result.stdout}" assert_equal(result.stderr, None) assert_equal(result.returncode, 0 if error is None else 1) def run_test(self): node = self.nodes[0] if node.ipc_tmp_dir: self.log.info("Skipping a few checks because temporary directory path is too long") http_auth_error = "error: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword were specified." http_connect_error = f"error: timeout on transient error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:{rpc_port(node.index)}\n\nMake sure the bitcoind server is running and that you are connecting to the correct RPC port.\nUse \"bitcoin-cli -help\" for more info.\n" ipc_connect_error = "error: timeout on transient error: Connection refused\n\nProbably bitcoin-node is not running or not listening on a unix socket. Can be started with:\n\n bitcoin-node -chain=regtest -ipcbind=unix\n" ipc_http_conflict = "error: -rpcconnect and -ipcconnect options cannot both be enabled\n" for started in (True, False): auto_error = None if started else http_connect_error http_error = http_auth_error if started else http_connect_error ipc_error = None if started else ipc_connect_error if not node.ipc_tmp_dir: self.test_cli([], auto_error) self.test_cli(["-rpcconnect=127.0.0.1"], http_error) self.test_cli(["-ipcconnect=auto"], auto_error) self.test_cli(["-ipcconnect=auto", "-rpcconnect=127.0.0.1"], http_error) self.test_cli(["-ipcconnect=unix"], ipc_error) self.test_cli([f"-ipcconnect=unix:{node.ipc_socket_path}"], ipc_error) self.test_cli(["-noipcconnect"], http_error) self.test_cli(["-ipcconnect=unix", "-rpcconnect=127.0.0.1"], ipc_http_conflict) self.stop_node(0) if __name__ == '__main__': TestBitcoinIpcCli(__file__).main()