/build/rpc / assets / governance_rotation

validate_ballot

validate_ballot "template_psbt" "ballot_psbt" Validate a single ballot PSBT before merging. Checks UTXO existence, signature validity, and proposal binding. Prevents malicious/invalid ballots from wasting issuer's time. Arguments: 1. template_psbt (string, required) Base64-encoded template PSBT 2. ballot_psbt (string, required) Base64-encoded ballot PSBT to validate Result: { (json object) "valid" : true|false, (boolean) Whether ballot is valid "error" : "str", (string, optional) Error message if invalid "ballot_units" : n, (numeric, optional) Voting units if valid "issues" : [ (json array, optional) List of validation issues "str", (string) Issue description ... ] } Examples: > bitcoin-cli validate_ballot "cHNidP8..." "cHNidP8..."

Signature

validate_ballot(template_psbt: string, ballot_psbt: string) → any

Code samples

curl --user "$RPC_USER:$RPC_PASS" \
  --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"docs","method":"validate_ballot","params":["\"<template_psbt>\"","\"<ballot_psbt>\""]}' \
  -H 'content-type: text/plain;' \
  http://127.0.0.1:8332/

bitcoin-cli validate_ballot "cHNidP8..." "cHNidP8..."

import requests
r = requests.post(
    "http://127.0.0.1:8332/",
    auth=("$RPC_USER", "$RPC_PASS"),
    json={
        "jsonrpc": "1.0",
        "id": "docs",
        "method": "validate_ballot",
        "params": ["\"<template_psbt>\"", "\"<ballot_psbt>\""],
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(r.json())

const res = await fetch("http://127.0.0.1:8332/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "content-type": "application/json",
    "authorization": "Basic " + btoa(`${process.env.RPC_USER}:${process.env.RPC_PASS}`),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    jsonrpc: "1.0",
    id: "docs",
    method: "validate_ballot",
    params: ["\"<template_psbt>\"","\"<ballot_psbt>\""],
  }),
});
console.log(await res.json());

Parameters

Name	Type	Req.	Description
template_psbt	`string`	yes	Base64-encoded template PSBT
ballot_psbt	`string`	yes	Base64-encoded ballot PSBT to validate

Result

Type: any

{ (json object) "valid" : true|false, (boolean) Whether ballot is valid "error" : "str", (string, optional) Error message if invalid "ballot_units" : n, (numeric, optional) Voting units if valid "issues" : [ (json array, optional) List of validation issues "str", (string) Issue description ... ] }

Source: services/core-node/bcore/src/wallet/rpc/assets.cpp:7961

C++ symbol: validate_ballot

Code samples

curl --user "$RPC_USER:$RPC_PASS" \
  --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"docs","method":"validate_ballot","params":["\"<template_psbt>\"","\"<ballot_psbt>\""]}' \
  -H 'content-type: text/plain;' \
  http://127.0.0.1:8332/

bitcoin-cli validate_ballot "cHNidP8..." "cHNidP8..."

import requests
r = requests.post(
    "http://127.0.0.1:8332/",
    auth=("$RPC_USER", "$RPC_PASS"),
    json={
        "jsonrpc": "1.0",
        "id": "docs",
        "method": "validate_ballot",
        "params": ["\"<template_psbt>\"", "\"<ballot_psbt>\""],
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(r.json())

const res = await fetch("http://127.0.0.1:8332/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "content-type": "application/json",
    "authorization": "Basic " + btoa(`${process.env.RPC_USER}:${process.env.RPC_PASS}`),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    jsonrpc: "1.0",
    id: "docs",
    method: "validate_ballot",
    params: ["\"<template_psbt>\"","\"<ballot_psbt>\""],
  }),
});
console.log(await res.json());