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Well I am developing an application that I want the user to deposit some coins (same for withdrawal). I want to do 2 things:

When I ack that the deposit has taken place I want to create an "unconfirmed" record to an SQL db with the details of the transaction and change the balance of the user (0 confirms ATM).
Afterwards I want to "monitor" these transactions in order to confirm that they had actually taken place i.e. the number of confirmations are >= MIN_CONFIRMS. This confirmation merely changes the status of the record created on no.1 to confirmed.

I have read that with the walletnotify option, a program can be run every time a wallet transaction changes (Can anyone clarify when a wallet transaction changes?). This program (in the walletnotify option) must be really simple and fast thus I cannot use it to achieve no.1 because in order to get the details of the transaction I have to make RPC call which is slow.

On the other hand there is the blocknotify option that specifies a program to run every time the best block changes (I still need clarification on when the best block changes?).

So how one can achieve these 2 things using walletnotify and/or blocknotify?

Thanks!

P.S. Newbie here, so be gentle ;)

How I currently do it:-

bitcoin.conf:-

Code:

rpcuser=Hellno
rpcpassword=Hellno
maxconnections=1000
checklevel=4
keypool=10000
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
server=1
blocknotify=/home/bitcoin/block.sh %s
walletnotify=/home/bitcoin/wallet.sh %s
alertnotify=/home/bitcoin/alert.sh %s

Then the .sh's are as follows:-
alert.sh:-

Code:

#!/bin/sh
curl "http://127.0.0.1:9485/alert" -d "$@"

block.sh:-

Code:

#!/bin/sh
curl "http://127.0.0.1:9485/block" -d "$@"

wallet.sh:-

Code:

#!/bin/sh
curl "http://127.0.0.1:9485/wallet" -d "$@"

In the program itself, I listen on local host like this:-

Code:

//HTTP objects
var http = require('http');
var httpServer = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
	dealWithHTTP(req, res);
}).listen("9485", "127.0.0.1", 511, function (err) {
	if(err) {
		console.log("HTTP ERROR:-", err);
	}
});

Then the 'dealwithhttp' is basically a switch statement based on /alert, /block, or, /wallet. /Alert sends me a message directly, /wallet (I.E. payment incoming) applies an update to the DB based on the arguments (Post data), and, messages me also (I like to know!), finally, /block looks for any unconfirmed addresses, and, rechecks them with the bitcoind. Maybe not the best way of doing it, but, a way. As you said you didn't want to do another RPC call, I can't help you, but, least this is a starting place.

Code:

(Can anyone clarify when a [i]wallet transaction changes[/i]?).

From what I've seen, once when it receives a payment, once when it receives the first confirmation (I.E. first time it sees it past the broadcast), and once when you send a payment.

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