v3tool

v3tool

v3tool is a simple client for manual testing of vspd. It is a developer tool, not suitable for end users or production use.

Prerequisites

1. An instance of dcrwallet which owns at least one mempool, immature or live ticket.
2. An instance of vspd to test.

What v3tool does

1. Retrieve the pubkey from vspd.
2. Retrieve the list of owned mempool/immature/live tickets from dcrwallet.
3. For each ticket:
   1. Use dcrwallet to find the tx hex, voting privkey and commitment address of the ticket.
   2. Get a fee address and amount from vspd to register this ticket.
   3. Create the fee tx and send it to vspd.
   4. Get the ticket status.
   5. Change vote choices on the ticket.
   6. Get the ticket status again.