Output from getrawtransaction

Question

If I call getrawtransaction it only returns a long hex string instead of any details. Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

To see a human description of the transaction instead of the raw bytes, you just need to set the verbose parameter to 1, e.g.

multichain-cli mychain getrawtransaction [TXID] 1

This is a standard Bitcoin JSON-RPC call.  More info here:

https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference#getrawtransaction