I'm parsing the blockchain to extract certain information I need for a script.
One thing I do is parsing transactions. What I do is:
getrawtransaction <tx>
decoderawtransaction <rawtx>
This works on most of the transactions (>99%) but some are very huge and the bitcoin client cant handle them. I wonder what else can handle them if not bitcoind itself. The error I get in bitcoind:
TX decode failed (code -22)
Thats because it cant accept very long arguments. My ruby script dies with
Arguement list too long - (Errno::E2BIG)
How to decode such transactions? Here are some examples:
2f50fdf7adbf58e91d738869948f4b191eb3cafa016c6df7e9182c06e4513852
e7229316b5a5b1f53382ec5a526b842dda2ca96bc891cd02d397a52c4a84dba0
540359af779a510828f0afd3c88562b62c37d0e4eeccb08104a167a3600f7956
Thanks.
Update: I just tried to paste the rawtransaction to this online parser and this one decodes that transaction without any problems. How is that possible programmatically?