Wladimir J. van der Laan f09bc7ec98
Merge #12493: [wallet] Reopen CDBEnv after encryption instead of shutting down
c1dde3a949b36ce9c2155777b3fa1372e7ed97d8 No longer shutdown after encrypting the wallet (Andrew Chow)
d7637c5a3f1d62922594cdfb6272e30dacf60ce9 After encrypting the wallet, reload the database environment (Andrew Chow)
5d296ac810755dc47f105eb95b52b7e2bcb8aea8 Add function to close all Db's and reload the databae environment (Andrew Chow)
a769461d5e37ddcb771ae836254fdc69177a28c4 Move BerkeleyEnvironment deletion from internal method to callsite (Andrew Chow)

Pull request description:

  This is the replacement for #11678 which implements @ryanofsky's [suggestion](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11678#pullrequestreview-76464511).

  Shutting down the software was to prevent the BDB environment from writing unencrypted private keys to disk in the database log files, as was noted [here](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51474.msg616068#msg616068). This PR replaces the shutdown behavior with a CDBEnv flush, close, and reopen which achieves the same effect: everything is cleanly flushed and closed, the log files are removed, and then the environment reopened to continue normal operation.

  To ensure that no unencrypted private keys are in the log files after encrypting the wallet, I wrote [this script](https://gist.github.com/achow101/7f7143e6c3d3fdc034d3470e72823e9d) to pull private keys from the original wallet file and searches for these keys in the log files (note that you will have to change your file paths to make it work on your own machine).

  As for concerns about private keys being written to slack space or being kept in memory, these behaviors no longer exist after the original wallet encryption PR and the shutting down solution from 2011.

  cc @ryanofsky

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This directory contains the BitcoinQT graphical user interface (GUI). It uses the cross-platform framework Qt.

The current precise version for Qt 5 is specified in qt.mk.

Compile and run

See build instructions (macOS, Windows, Unix, etc).

To run:

./src/qt/bitcoin-qt

Files and directories

forms

Contains Designer UI files. They are created with Qt Creator, but can be edited using any text editor.

locale

Contains translations. They are periodically updated. The process is described here.

res

Resources such as the icon.

test

Tests.

bitcoingui.(h/cpp)

Represents the main window of the Bitcoin UI.

*model.(h/cpp)

The model. When it has a corresponding controller, it generally inherits from QAbstractTableModel. Models that are used by controllers as helpers inherit from other Qt classes like QValidator.

ClientModel is used by the main application bitcoingui and several models like peertablemodel.

*page.(h/cpp)

A controller. :NAMEpage.cpp generally includes :NAMEmodel.h and forms/:NAME.page.ui with a similar :NAME.

*dialog.(h/cpp)

Various dialogs, e.g. to open a URL. Inherit from QDialog.

paymentserver.(h/cpp)

Used to process BIP21 and BIP70 (see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11622) payment URI / requests. Also handles URI based application switching (e.g. when following a bitcoin:... link from a browser).

walletview.(h/cpp)

Represents the view to a single wallet.

Other .h/cpp files

  • UI elements like BitcoinAmountField, which inherit from QWidget.
  • bitcoinstrings.cpp: automatically generated
  • bitcoinunits.(h/cpp): BTC / mBTC / etc handling
  • callback.h
  • guiconstants.h: UI colors, app name, etc
  • guiutil.h: several helper functions
  • macdockiconhandler.(h/cpp)
  • macdockiconhandler.(h/cpp): display notifications in macOS

Contribute

See CONTRIBUTING.md for general guidelines. Specifically for Qt:

Using Qt Creator as IDE

You can use Qt Creator as an IDE. This is especially useful if you want to change the UI layout.

Download and install the community edition of Qt Creator. Uncheck everything except Qt Creator during the installation process.

Instructions for macOS:

  1. Make sure you installed everything through Homebrew mentioned in the macOS build instructions
  2. Use ./configure with the --enable-debug flag
  3. In Qt Creator do "New Project" -> Import Project -> Import Existing Project
  4. Enter "bitcoin-qt" as project name, enter src/qt as location
  5. Leave the file selection as it is
  6. Confirm the "summary page"
  7. In the "Projects" tab select "Manage Kits..."
  8. Select the default "Desktop" kit and select "Clang (x86 64bit in /usr/bin)" as compiler
  9. Select LLDB as debugger (you might need to set the path to your installation)
  10. Start debugging with Qt Creator (you might need to the executable to "bitcoin-qt" under "Run", which is where you can also add command line arguments)