- CURRENT_WALLET is set when a single wallet is loaded in memory, and it
remains set after Electrum stops running.
- If several wallets are loaded at the same time, CURRENT_WALLET is unset,
and RPCs must specify the wallet explicitly (using --wallet for the CLI)
- The fallback to 'default_wallet' essentially only applies when
creating a new wallet file
The qt, qml, and kivy GUIs have a first-start network-setup screen
that allows the user customising the network settings before creating a wallet.
Previously the daemon used to create the network and start it, before this screen,
before the GUI even starts. If the user changed network settings, those would
be set on the already running network, potentially including restarting the network.
Now it becomes the responsibility of the GUI to start the network, allowing this
first-start customisation to take place before starting the network at all.
The qt and the qml GUIs are adapted to make use of this. Kivy, and the other
prototype GUIs are not adapted and just start the network right away, as before.
fixes https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/7919
In the past, when creating payment requests, we keyed them by on-chain address,
and set/saved the msg of the request as label for the address.
Many places in the code were calling wallet.get_label(addr) with the expectation that
relevant payment requests are found and their message/description (if any) is considered.
wallet.get_label(key) is now made private, and instead the explicit non-polymorphic
wallet.get_label_for_{address,rhash,txid} alternatives should be used.
After some consideration I am fairly certain there is no need to take
wallet.lock in `is_up_to_date()`. Any caller that might want some kind
of guarantees re the value returned by is_up_to_date() would need to
enforce them itself by e.g. taking wallet.lock around its critical code
block. That is, even if is_up_to_date() itself takes the lock, between
the call returning and the caller reading the value there could still
have been a race.
Also, the GUI was directly accessing the field already.
Previously, during early-startup (until configure_logging(config) is
called in run_electrum),
- the stderr log handler lost all log messages below warning level, and
- the file log handler lost all log messages regardless of log level
We now instead start buffering log messages in memory as soon as
electrum.logging is imported. The buffer is dumped into the
stderr and file log handlers when they are fully set up, and then
the buffer is discarded (and the temporary log handler is removed).
Note that messages are not logged until configure_logging() is called.
Previously WARNING/ERROR messages would get logged immediately to stderr,
but not anymore. This was changed so that the order of the log messages
can be kept intact. (if we log WARNINGs immediately, but need to delay
INFOs until the config is available, messages would either be out of order
or alternatively there would be duplicates)
Relatedly, we now follow the recommendation of the python docs re
logging for libraries [0]: we try to only configure logging if running via
run_electrum (the main script) and not when e.g. a 3rd party script
imports electrum.
[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html#configuring-logging-for-a-library
The few other cases that used SimpleConfig.get_instance() now
either get passed a config instance, or they try to get a reference
to something else that has a reference to a config.
(see lnsweep, qt/qrcodewidget, qt/qrtextedit)
old style "-v" still works
filtering examples:
-v=debug,network=error,interface=error // effectively blacklists network and interface
-v=warning,network=debug,interface=debug // effectively whitelists network and interface
