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getmempoolancestors JSON-RPC command

getmempoolancestors "txid" ( verbose )

If txid is in the mempool, returns all in-mempool ancestors.

Arguments

1. "txid"     (string, required) The transaction id (must be in mempool)
2. verbose    (boolean, optional, default=false) True for a json object, false for array of transaction ids

Result (for verbose = false)

[                       (json array of strings)
  "transactionid"           (string) The transaction id of an in-mempool ancestor transaction
  ,...
]

Result (for verbose = true)

{                           (json object)
  "transactionid" : {       (json object)
    "size" : n,             (numeric) transaction size.
    "time" : n,             (numeric) local time transaction entered pool in seconds since 1 Jan 1970 GMT
    "fees" : {
        "base" : n,         (numeric) transaction fee in BCH
        "modified" : n,     (numeric) transaction fee with fee deltas used for mining priority in BCH
    }
    "depends" : [           (array) unconfirmed transactions used as inputs for this transaction
        "transactionid",    (string) parent transaction id
       ... ]
    "spentby" : [           (array) unconfirmed transactions spending outputs from this transaction
        "transactionid",    (string) child transaction id
       ... ]
  }, ...
}

Examples

> bitcoin-cli getmempoolancestors "mytxid"
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getmempoolancestors", "params": ["mytxid"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Bitcoin Cash Node Daemon version v27.0.1-6a03070

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