Only legacy wallets are supported by this command

[dbligh]

Hi, I'm trying to follow the installation guide but hitting some issues on testnet executing npm run bitcoin using the ION generated wallet import string.

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> [email protected] bitcoin /home/administrator/ion
> node dist/src/bitcoin.js

Loading configuration from /etc/ion/testnet-bitcoin-config.json...
Loading ION bitcoin versioning config from /etc/ion/testnet-bitcoin-versioning.json...
Creating bitcoin wallet using the import string passed in.
Getting blockchain info...
Sending RPC request: {"method":"getblockchaininfo","jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"1k733bnfc6a"}
Sidetree bitcoin service configuration:
(node:2281) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'MongoError' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
Bitcoin sync progress: block height 2820246, sync-ed: 2820246
Bitcoin Core fully synchronized
Sending RPC request: {"method":"createwallet","params":["sidetreeDefaultWallet"],"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"4cf13vka5p9"}
Wallet with name sidetreeDefaultWallet already exists.
Sending RPC request: {"method":"loadwallet","params":["sidetreeDefaultWallet",true],"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"7p5ld85moff"}
Wallet with name sidetreeDefaultWallet already loaded.
Checking if bitcoin wallet for mfYXNBtmxeVVYNxCBFMJN5EN7fqrQ9e3M5 exists
Sending RPC request: {"method":"getaddressinfo","params":["mfYXNBtmxeVVYNxCBFMJN5EN7fqrQ9e3M5"],"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"ocomdkpgmc"}
Configuring Bitcoin Core to watch address mfYXNBtmxeVVYNxCBFMJN5EN7fqrQ9e3M5. Requires parsing transactions starting from genesis, will take a while...
Sending RPC request: {"method":"importpubkey","params":["02d9f597ebe2053c47a63537c2a77de1e4d581d344199415bade83167ad7f66cdf","sidetree",true],"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"2enaolvorf8"}
Sidetree-Bitcoin node initialization failed with error: {"stack":"Error: Unexpected fetch HTTP response: [500]: {\"result\":null,\"error\":{\"code\":-4,\"message\":\"Only legacy wallets are supported by this command\"},\"id\":\"2enaolvorf8\"}\n\n    at BitcoinClient.<anonymous> (/home/administrator/ion/node_modules/@decentralized-identity/sidetree/dist/lib/bitcoin/BitcoinClient.js:859:27)\n    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)\n    at fulfilled (/home/administrator/ion/node_modules/@decentralized-identity/sidetree/dist/lib/bitcoin/BitcoinClient.js:5:58)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)","message":"Unexpected fetch HTTP response: [500]: {\"result\":null,\"error\":{\"code\":-4,\"message\":\"Only legacy wallets are supported by this command\"},\"id\":\"2enaolvorf8\"}\n","code":"bitcoin_client_fetch_unexpected_error"}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] bitcoin: `node dist/src/bitcoin.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] bitcoin script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/administrator/.npm/_logs/2024-06-06T10_14_06_386Z-debug.log

In trying to get this working I've started bitcoind to support legacy wallets using:

./bitcoind -conf=/home/administrator/bitcoin-27.0/bitcoin.conf -testnet -deprecatedrpc=create_bdb -daemon

And created a legacy wallet:

$ bitcoin-cli -testnet -conf=/home/administrator/bitcoin-27.0/bitcoin.conf -named createwallet wallet_name=ion_wallet_legacy passphrase=<passphrase> descriptors=false

Produces the following output:

{
  "name": "ion_wallet_legacy",
  "warnings": [
    "Wallet created successfully. The legacy wallet type is being deprecated and support for creating and opening legacy wallets will be removed in the future."
  ]
}

I'm now stuck trying to get the right value from here to put into bitcoinWalletOrImportString.

Any idea where I'm going wrong here?

[Shariat-dotnet]

Steps to Generate the WIF String in Bitcoin Core Terminal

1. Generate an Address in the Created Legacy Wallet

   • Ensure that you have a legacy wallet configured in Bitcoin Core.

2. Check Wallet Information
   Execute the following command to get wallet information:

   bitcoin-cli -chain=testnet -rpcuser=<your user name> -rpcpassword=<your rpc password> -rpcwallet=sidetreeDefaultWallet getwalletinfo

3. Generate a New Legacy Address
   Run the following command to create a new legacy address:

   bitcoin-cli -chain=testnet -rpcuser=<your user name> -rpcpassword=<your rpc password> -rpcwallet=sidetreeDefaultWallet getnewaddress "" legacy

4. Dump the Private Key
   Use the command below to retrieve the private key associated with the generated address:

   bitcoin-cli -chain=testnet -rpcuser=<your user name> -rpcpassword=<your rpc password> -rpcwallet=sidetreeDefaultWallet dumpprivkey <address>

5. Convert to WIF Format (if needed)
   The private key retrieved in the previous step will already be in WIF format in most cases.