Getrawtransactionsinblock

[crispweed]

This adds a new 'getrawtransactionsinblock' rpc command.
The use case for this is essentially for any application that connects over RPC to process transactions in each new block, as they come in (for example, for a wallet application).
(I use this in the SwapBill client, but essentially just because the SwapBill client needs to maintain it's own wallet separately from the wallet in bitcoind or litecoind.)
This is only possible through the current RPC interface if txindex is turned on. But in fact a full transaction index should not be necessary for this, because we already know the hash of the block containing the transactions.
A second reason is then that it is also much more efficient to obtain all of the transactions in a block this way, rather than querying for the set of txids in a block and then making a whole bunch of calls to getrawtransaction.
See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=630370.0 for some more discussion!

[laanwj]

With getblock <hash> false you can already get the entire block data, including the transactions.
Edit: in that case you have to chop up the block data yourself to get the separate transactions, but adding a new RPC to return data that is already available in a slightly different format seems overkill.

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[crispweed]

With getblock false you can already get the entire block data, including the transactions

Ok, I wasn't aware of the second parameter to getblock, in fact.
Yes this does what I need, then.
(Chopping up the block data is no problem. I need txids also, but can get these with getblock true..)

[Elbandi]

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list
doc is missing about this false parameter...

[laanwj]

Update the wiki then...