Wallet info files

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jim618 edited this page Sep 16, 2011 · 1 revision

The wallet info files are little files with the name wallet filename.info that contain:

wallet info magic text
wallet info version number
wallet version number
list of receiving addresses, label
list of sending addresses, label
generic properties, used by the code to store state variables like 'the last amount sent'.

The main reasons they exist are:

gives a handle to cope with multiple wallet formats whilst we still consider the wallet as a 'serialised blob'
gives what is close to a 'user session' object for use in MultiBitWeb

Ideally the wallet format and info files get put into one, as it is a bit error prone to have related data (wallet, wallet info) split across 2 files