cmd/geth: reorganise account/wallet command/flags

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/utils/flags.go b/cmd/utils/flags.go
index e9b0d86a4..9e80bba60 100644
--- a/cmd/utils/flags.go
+++ b/cmd/utils/flags.go
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ func setEtherbase(ctx *cli.Context, ks *keystore.KeyStore, cfg *eth.Config) {
 	}
 }
 
-// MakePasswordList reads password lines from the file specified by --password.
+// MakePasswordList reads password lines from the file specified by the global --password flag.
 func MakePasswordList(ctx *cli.Context) []string {
 	path := ctx.GlobalString(PasswordFileFlag.Name)
 	if path == "" {
@@ -979,3 +979,27 @@ func MakeConsolePreloads(ctx *cli.Context) []string {
 	}
 	return preloads
 }
+
+// MigrateFlags sets the global flag from a local flag when it's set.
+// This is a temporary function used for migrating old command/flags to the
+// new format.
+//
+// e.g. geth account new --keystore /tmp/mykeystore --lightkdf
+//
+// is equivalent after calling this method with:
+//
+// geth --keystore /tmp/mykeystore --lightkdf account new
+//
+// This allows the use of the existing configuration functionality.
+// When all flags are migrated this function can be removed and the existing
+// configuration functionality must be changed that is uses local flags
+func MigrateFlags(action func(ctx *cli.Context) error) func(*cli.Context) error {
+	return func(ctx *cli.Context) error {
+		for _, name := range ctx.FlagNames() {
+			if ctx.IsSet(name) {
+				ctx.GlobalSet(name, ctx.String(name))
+			}
+		}
+		return action(ctx)
+	}
+}