callback or polling to notify from bitcoind

[ghelyar]

I am a developer using JSON RPC to accept bitcoins as a merchant.

Is there any way to get a callback from bitcoind once a transaction is sufficiently confirmed, or should I just poll it with gettransaction?

I am aware of other existing services but just looking into bitcoind right now.


P.S. I would have posted in the appropriate forum if I could have.

[gweedo]

Code:

 -blocknotify=<cmd>     Execute command when the best block changes (%s in cmd is replaced by block hash)

Use that then just check if the transaction has enough confirmations.

[ghelyar]

Thanks for the quick and succinct reply!

Would walletnotify also work?

[gweedo]

Thanks for the quick and succinct reply!

Would walletnotify also work?

Actually that would work better probably. I just woke up so I must be still sleeping LOL

[ghelyar]

walletnotify only seems to get called on 0 and 1 confirmations. Unless I'm missing something, it seems that if you want to check for more you need to use blocknotify afterwards on the block, poll with gettransaction or allow the user to check the transaction until it is sufficiently confirmed.

gettransaction needs a transaction ID though, which seems to only come from either sendtoaddress, sendfrom or walletnotify, and since sendtoaddress and sendfrom come from the local wallet, that won't work for receiving. I assume raw transactions also can't send from an arbitrary address without being signed by the private key on that address.

Is there any way to get the transaction id when receiving other than walletnotify? listsinceblock?