update to 0.17.0 broke several rpc api calls that worked under 0.16.3, how to migrate correcty my code?

Question

After updating from Bitcoin core 0.16.3 to 0.17 I've found several RPC calls are now broken, and I'm not sure on how to migrate/update my code (PHP).

Things broken so far:

• getbalance : does not detect unconfirmed balance, this command shows only confirmed balance where it used to (and should) show confirmed+unconfirmed balance. Expected to work like in 0.16.3.

  $btc->getbalance("*", 0);
  

• listunspent: does not detect unconfirmed inputs, showing nothing and returning error stating "Invalid amount". Expected to work like in 0.16.3.

  $btc->listunspent(0, 9999999, array(), true, array("minimumAmount" => 0.00005));
  

I will add more to the list as they get discovered. There is no mention of these issues online, in the 0.17 changelog or anywhere else I could find.

Already updated some other php code that used validateaddress deprecated call and a couple more, probably still missing some editing here.

How to restore functionality as expected? Thanks.

Answer 1

The first issue, with getbalance, is a known issue which will be fixed in the next release. You can see the pull request for it here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14602

The latter, though, I cannot seem to replicate. To my knowledge, listunspent has not been modified in version 0.17, and it seems to work as expected when I test on the command line. Did it work before? Perhaps PHP is causing the issue, could you try enclosing the number as a string instead just to test it? "minimumAmount" => "0.00005"