getTransactions should always return transactions as an array instead of null

[leighmcculloch]

What version are you using?

22.1.2-755d81f1c738943f55ba6d61cbd72dc65de0661f

What did you do?

$ stellar container start
$ curl http://localhost:8000/rpc \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data \
    jq '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"getTransactions","params":{"startLedger":1366}}'
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": {
    "transactions": null,
    "latestLedger": 1452,
    "latestLedgerCloseTimestamp": 1744155679,
    "oldestLedger": 8,
    "oldestLedgerCloseTimestamp": 1744154230,
    "cursor": "6236292513793"
  }
}

What did you expect to see?

Transactions as an empty array [].

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": {
    "transactions": [],
    "latestLedger": 1452,
    "latestLedgerCloseTimestamp": 1744155679,
    "oldestLedger": 8,
    "oldestLedgerCloseTimestamp": 1744154230,
    "cursor": "6236292513793"
  }
}

It makes coding clients simpler if the data type is consistent.

What did you see instead?

Transactions as null.

See above.

Related

• js-stellar-sdk fails when calling RPC's getTransactions when there's no data js-stellar-sdk#1161
• Ensure we get an array out of RPC getTransactions. js-stellar-sdk#1162