Allow passing branchId when calling signrawtransaction

src/consensus/upgrades.cpp

@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ uint32_t CurrentEpochBranchId(int nHeight, const Consensus::Params& params) {
     return NetworkUpgradeInfo[CurrentEpoch(nHeight, params)].nBranchId;
 }
 
+bool IsConsensusBranchId(int branchId) {
+    for (int idx = Consensus::BASE_SPROUT; idx < Consensus::MAX_NETWORK_UPGRADES; idx++) {
+        if (branchId == NetworkUpgradeInfo[idx].nBranchId) {
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
 bool IsActivationHeight(
     int nHeight,
     const Consensus::Params& params,

src/consensus/upgrades.h

@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ int CurrentEpoch(int nHeight, const Consensus::Params& params);
  */
 uint32_t CurrentEpochBranchId(int nHeight, const Consensus::Params& params);
 
+/**
+ * Returns true if a given branch id is a valid nBranchId for one of the network
+ * upgrades contained in NetworkUpgradeInfo.
+ */
+bool IsConsensusBranchId(int branchId);
+
 /**
  * Returns true if the given block height is the activation height for the given
  * upgrade.

src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp

@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ static void TxInErrorToJSON(const CTxIn& txin, UniValue& vErrorsRet, const std::
 
 UniValue signrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
 {
-    if (fHelp || params.size() < 1 || params.size() > 4)
+    if (fHelp || params.size() < 1 || params.size() > 5)
         throw runtime_error(
             "signrawtransaction \"hexstring\" ( [{\"txid\":\"id\",\"vout\":n,\"scriptPubKey\":\"hex\",\"redeemScript\":\"hex\"},...] [\"privatekey1\",...] sighashtype )\n"
             "\nSign inputs for raw transaction (serialized, hex-encoded).\n"
@@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ UniValue signrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
             "       \"ALL|ANYONECANPAY\"\n"
             "       \"NONE|ANYONECANPAY\"\n"
             "       \"SINGLE|ANYONECANPAY\"\n"
+            "5.  \"branchid\"       (string, optional) The hex representation of the consensus branch id to sign with."
+            " This can be used to force signing with consensus rules that are ahead of the node's current height.\n"
 
             "\nResult:\n"
             "{\n"
@@ -737,7 +739,7 @@ UniValue signrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
 #else
     LOCK(cs_main);
 #endif
-    RPCTypeCheck(params, boost::assign::list_of(UniValue::VSTR)(UniValue::VARR)(UniValue::VARR)(UniValue::VSTR), true);
+    RPCTypeCheck(params, boost::assign::list_of(UniValue::VSTR)(UniValue::VARR)(UniValue::VARR)(UniValue::VSTR)(UniValue::VSTR), true);
 
     vector<unsigned char> txData(ParseHexV(params[0], "argument 1"));
     CDataStream ssData(txData, SER_NETWORK, PROTOCOL_VERSION);
@@ -880,6 +882,13 @@ UniValue signrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
     // Grab the current consensus branch ID
     auto consensusBranchId = CurrentEpochBranchId(chainHeight, Params().GetConsensus());
 
+    if (params.size() > 4 && !params[4].isNull()) {
+        consensusBranchId = ParseHexToUInt32(params[4].get_str());
+        if (!IsConsensusBranchId(consensusBranchId)) {
+            throw runtime_error(params[4].get_str() + " is not a valid consensus branch id");
+        }
+    } 
+    
     // Script verification errors
     UniValue vErrors(UniValue::VARR);
 

src/test/rpc_tests.cpp

@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(rpc_rawparams)
     BOOST_CHECK_NO_THROW(CallRPC(string("signrawtransaction ")+rawtx+" null null NONE|ANYONECANPAY"));
     BOOST_CHECK_NO_THROW(CallRPC(string("signrawtransaction ")+rawtx+" [] [] NONE|ANYONECANPAY"));
     BOOST_CHECK_THROW(CallRPC(string("signrawtransaction ")+rawtx+" null null badenum"), runtime_error);
+    BOOST_CHECK_NO_THROW(CallRPC(string("signrawtransaction ")+rawtx+" [] [] NONE|ANYONECANPAY 5ba81b19"));
+    BOOST_CHECK_THROW(CallRPC(string("signrawtransaction ")+rawtx+" [] [] ALL NONE|ANYONECANPAY 123abc"), runtime_error);
 
     // Only check failure cases for sendrawtransaction, there's no network to send to...
     BOOST_CHECK_THROW(CallRPC("sendrawtransaction"), runtime_error);