Add interfaces::Node methods to give GUI finer grained control over
settings.json file. Update method is used to write settings to the file,
getPersistent and isIgnored methods are used to find out about settings
file and command line option interactions.
Warning: Replacing fs::system_complete calls with fs::absolute calls
in this commit may cause minor changes in behaviour because fs::absolute
no longer strips trailing slashes; however these changes are believed to
be safe.
Co-authored-by: Russell Yanofsky <russ@yanofsky.org>
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
There is no change in behavior. This just helps prepare for the
transition from boost::filesystem to std::filesystem by avoiding calls
to methods which will be unsafe after the transaction to std::filesystem
to due lack of a boost::filesystem::path::imbue equivalent and inability
to set a predictable locale.
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kiminuo <kiminuo@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>
Persistent settings are used in followup PRs #15936 to unify gui settings
between bitcoin-qt and bitcoind, and #15937 to add a load_on_startup flag to
the loadwallet RPC and maintain a dynamic list of wallets that should be loaded
on startup that also can be shared between bitcoind and bitcoin-qt.
Also rename the "result_complete" variable in GetSettingsList() to "done" to be
more consistent with GetSetting().
This change doesn't affect current behavior but could be useful in the future
to support dynamically changing settings at runtime and adding new settings
sources, because it lets high priority sources reset settings back to default
(see test).
By removing a special case for null, this change also helps merge code treat
settings values more like black boxes, and interfere less with settings parsing
and retrieval.
Implement merging of settings from different sources (command line and config
file) separately from parsing code in system.cpp, so it is easier to add new
sources.
Document current inconsistent merging behavior without changing it.
This commit only adds new settings code without using it. The next commit calls
the new code to replace existing code in system.cpp.
Co-authored-by: John Newbery <john@johnnewbery.com>
