Ava Chow f7e88e298a Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#32471: wallet/rpc: fix listdescriptors RPC fails to return descriptors with private key information when wallet contains descriptors missing any key
9c7e4771b1 test: Test listdescs with priv works even with missing priv keys (Novo)
ed945a6854 walletrpc: reject listdes with priv key on w-only wallets (Novo)
9e5e9824f1 descriptor: ToPrivateString() pass if  at least 1 priv key exists (Novo)
5c4db25b61 descriptor: refactor ToPrivateString for providers (Novo)
2dc74e3f4e wallet/migration: use HavePrivateKeys in place of ToPrivateString (Novo)
e842eb90bb descriptors: add HavePrivateKeys() (Novo)

Pull request description:

  _TLDR:
  Currently, `listdescriptors [private=true]` will fail for a non-watch-only wallet if any descriptor has a missing private key(e.g `tr()`, `multi()`, etc.). This PR changes that while making sure `listdescriptors [private=true]` still fails if there no private keys. Closes #32078_

  In non-watch-only wallets, it's possible to import descriptors as long as at least one private key is included. It's important that users can still view these descriptors when they need to create a backup—even if some private keys are missing ([#32078 (comment)](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/32078#issuecomment-2781428475)). This change makes it possible to do so.

  This change also helps prevent `listdescriptors true` from failing completely, because one descriptor is missing some private keys.

  ### Notes
  - The new behaviour is applied to all descriptors including miniscript descriptors
  - `listdescriptors true` still fails for watch-only wallets to preserve existing behaviour https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24361#discussion_r920801352
  - Wallet migration logic previously used `Descriptor::ToPrivateString()` to determine which descriptor was watchonly. This means that modifying the `ToPrivateString()` behaviour caused descriptors that were previously recognized as "watchonly" to be "non-watchonly". **In order to keep the scope of this PR limited to the RPC behaviour, this PR uses a different method to determine `watchonly` descriptors for the purpose of wallet migration.** A follow-up PR can be opened to update migration logic to exclude descriptors with some private keys from the `watchonly` migration wallet.

  ### Relevant PRs
  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24361
  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32186

  ### Testing
  Functional tests were added to test the new behaviour

  EDIT
  **`listdescriptors [private=true]` will still fail when there are no private keys because non-watchonly wallets must have private keys and calling `listdescriptors [private=true]` for watchonly wallet returns an error**

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  rkrux:
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