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importpubkey

Command#

pacprotocol-cli importpubkey "pubkey" ( "label" rescan )

Adds a public key (in hex) that can be watched as if it were in your wallet but cannot be used to spend. Requires a new wallet backup.

Arguments#

pubkey *#

(string, required)

The hex-encoded public key

label#

(string, optional, default="")

An optional label

rescan#

(boolean, optional, default=true)

Rescan the wallet for transactions

Examples#

Note: This call can take over an hour to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls

may report that the imported pubkey exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.

Import a public key with rescan

pacprotocol-cli importpubkey "mypubkey"

Import using a label without rescan

pacprotocol-cli importpubkey "mypubkey" "testing" false

As a JSON-RPC call

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "importpubkey", "params": ["mypubkey", "testing", false] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/

Running following help command

pacprotocol-cli help importpubkey

Will produce following output:

importpubkey "pubkey" ( "label" rescan )
Adds a public key (in hex) that can be watched as if it were in your wallet but cannot be used to spend. Requires a new wallet backup.
Arguments:
1. "pubkey" (string, required) The hex-encoded public key
2. "label" (string, optional, default="") An optional label
3. rescan (boolean, optional, default=true) Rescan the wallet for transactions
Note: This call can take over an hour to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls
may report that the imported pubkey exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.
Examples:
Import a public key with rescan
> pacprotocol-cli importpubkey "mypubkey"
Import using a label without rescan
> pacprotocol-cli importpubkey "mypubkey" "testing" false
As a JSON-RPC call
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "importpubkey", "params": ["mypubkey", "testing", false] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/
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