Wrong category in listtransactions?

Question

When I send assets from one address to another using sendassettoaddress, listtransactions always shows the category as "receive" - no matter if I call the list service for the sender or the receiver. Shouldn't it be "send" or "receive", depending on which server I call listtransactions?

Comments

I've asked about this and will get back to you shortly.

Answer 1

The answer is that for now you should ignore this field, unless you have a native currency in your chain, because if no native currency changed hands, it will always show receive. We have on our roadmap the need to improve the output of listtransactions, so that it shows which assets/permissions were moved as well.

Answer 2

Alpha 13, just released, introduces new APIs to make it much easier to query the node's transaction history. Take a look at the following:

• listwallettransactions
• getwallettransaction
• listaddresstransactions
• getaddresstransaction