stdio/text GUIs suffering from code rot

[twopir]

I don't have a GUI installed on my Bitcoin machine (FreeBSD 9.3, Python 2.7.13, Electrum 2.8.2 downloaded as of today), so I rely on the stdio/text interfaces to Electrum.

These interfaces have multiple issues

• Neither the text/stdio UIs properly upgrade the wallet storage format, they just dump out with a stack trace saying that the format requires upgrade. I added a pdb.set_trace() in gui/text.py and called storage.upgrade() myself.
• in the stdio UI, requesting history bombs out with

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./electrum", line 379, in <module>
  d.init_gui(config, plugins)
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/lib/daemon.py", line 283, in init_gui
  self.gui.main()
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/gui/stdio.py", line 163, in main
  while self.done == 0: self.main_command()
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/gui/stdio.py", line 62, in main_command
  elif c == "i" : self.print_history()
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/gui/stdio.py", line 93, in print_history
  tx_hash, confirmations, value, timestamp, balance = item
  ValueError: too many values to unpack

• The text/curses UI is just barely usable:
  • Hitting Enter on a transaction gives a useless dialog:
  • this is what the Receive window looks like for me:
  • Too many operations in the text/curses UI just pop up a dialog box with the keycode.

[twopir]

With the stdio UI, storing a payment order works fine. Sending it does not:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./electrum", line 379, in <module>
    d.init_gui(config, plugins)
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/lib/daemon.py", line 283, in init_gui
    self.gui.main()
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/gui/stdio.py", line 163, in main
    while self.done == 0: self.main_command()
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/gui/stdio.py", line 65, in main_command
    elif c == "s" : self.send_order()
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/gui/stdio.py", line 147, in send_order
    self.do_send()
  File "/usr/home/pi/Electrum-2.8.2/gui/stdio.py", line 180, in do_send
    if self.wallet.use_encryption:
AttributeError: 'Standard_Wallet' object has no attribute 'use_encryption'

Entering Unicode into the Curses UI generates similar M-BM-BLAH BLAH barf as to the Receive window.

I can use the Curses UI to send a payment, though.

[SomberNight]

Some of the mentioned issues should be fixed on master now, namely at least

• storage upgrades
• "requesting history bombs out with..."
• "storing a payment order works fine. Sending it does not"