undefined:1

[mcandre]

When I try your sample code, I get an error.

Example:

client.getBalance('*', 6, function(err, balance) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
  console.log('Balance:', balance);
});

Trace:

undefined:1

^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at Object.parse (native)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/Users/andrew/Desktop/src/mijnwerker/node_modules/bitcoin/lib/jsonrpc.js:62:28)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:81:20)
    at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:133:23)
    at Client.onData [as ondata] (http.js:1488:27)
    at Client._onReadable (net.js:683:27)
    at IOWatcher.onReadable [as callback] (net.js:177:10)

[freewil]

Have you setup bitcoin to listen for rpc commands or are you able to make any other api calls?

[mcandre]

getInfo seems to work, but because the API is sparse and JavaScript doesn't print objects well, I have no idea what getInfo and other commands take as input or what they give as output. I know that they use callbacks, but not much beyond that.

For me, getInfo(function (err, data) { console.log("Data: " + data); }); prints "Data: Object", which isn't very useful at all.

Another source of confusion: Are the RPC credentials meant for some global Bitcoin server or to connect to my local server?

Yet another source of confusion: If I have my Bitcoin GUI working and set to a specific Bitcoin wallet, how do I set a bitcoind server to use that wallet? I'm guessing that I should use setAccount, but I have no idea of the syntax nor the semantics for such an operation.

Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Sean < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Have you setup bitcoin to listen for rpc commands or are you able to make any other api calls?

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[freewil]

Most of your confusion stems from a lack of understanding about how Bitcoin and the Bitcoin client works, please don't create any more issues that are not directly related to node-bitcoin.

If I have my Bitcoin GUI working and set to a specific Bitcoin wallet, how do I set a bitcoind server to use that wallet?

You can't have have two clients accessing the same wallet at the same time, I believe there is a lockfile created by the bitcoin client to prevent that.

console.log("Data: " + data); }); prints "Data: Object", which isn't very useful at all.

Try just printing the object by itself so it's not casted to a string: console.log(data)

Another source of confusion: Are the RPC credentials meant for some global Bitcoin server or to connect to my local server?

Local server.