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4c5ceb040cwallet: CreateTransaction(): return out-params as (optional) struct (Sebastian Falbesoner)c9fdaa5e3awallet: CreateTransactionInternal(): return out-params as (optional) struct (Sebastian Falbesoner) Pull request description: The method `CWallet::CreateTransaction` currently returns several values in the form of out-parameters: * the actual newly created transaction (`CTransactionRef& tx`) * its required fee (`CAmount& nFeeRate`) * the position of the change output (`int& nChangePosInOut`) -- as the name suggests, this is both an in- and out-param By returning these values in an optional structure (which returns no value a.k.a. `std::nullopt` if an error occured), the interfaces is shorter, cleaner (requested change position is now in-param and can be passed by value) and callers don't have to create dummy variables for results that they are not interested in. Note that the names of the replaced out-variables were kept in `CreateTransactionInternal` to keep the diff minimal. Also, the fee calculation data (`FeeCalculation& fee_calc_out`) would be another candidate to put into the structure, but `FeeCalculation` is currently an opaque data type in the wallet interface and I think it should stay that way. As a potential follow-up, I think it would make sense to also do the same refactoring for `CWallet::FundTransaction`, which has a very similar parameter structure. Suggested by laanwj in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20588#issuecomment-739838428. ACKs for top commit: achow101: re-ACK4c5ceb040cXekyo: ACK4c5ceb040cw0xlt: crACK4c5ceb040cTree-SHA512: 27e5348bbf4f698713002d40c834dcda59c711c93207113e14522fc6d9ae7f4d8edf1ef6d214c5dd62bb52943d342878960ca333728828bf39b645a27d55d524
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
License
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Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
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Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
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(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
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Translations
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