The API would allow seeds (and public keys) to be used in place of
accounts at several locations in the API. For example, when calling
account_info, you could pass `"account": "foo"`. The string "foo" is
treated like a seed, so the method returns `actNotFound` (instead of
`actMalformed`, as most developers would expect). In the early days,
this was a convenience to make testing easier. However, it allows for
poor security practices, so it is no longer a good idea. Allowing a
secret or passphrase is now considered a bug. Previously, it was
controlled by the `strict` option on some methods. With this commit,
since the API does not interpret `account` as `seed`, the option
`strict` is no longer needed and is removed.
Removing this behavior from the API is a [breaking
change](https://xrpl.org/request-formatting.html#breaking-changes). One
could argue that it shouldn't be done without bumping the API version;
however, in this instance, there is no evidence that anyone is using the
API in the "legacy" way. Furthermore, it is a potential security hole,
as it allows users to send secrets to places where they are not needed,
where they could end up in logs, error messages, etc. There's no reason
to take such a risk with a seed/secret, since only the public address is
needed.
Resolves: #3329, #3330, #4337
BREAKING CHANGE: Remove non-strict account parsing (#3330)
At this point all of the jss::* names are defined in the same
file. That file has been named JsonFields.h. That file name
has little to do with either JsonStaticStrings (which is what
jss is short for) or with jss. The file is renamed to jss.h
so the file name better reflects what the file contains.
All includes of that file are fixed. A few include order
issues are tidied up along the way.
This commit introduces the "SortedDirectories" amendment, which
addresses two distinct issues:
First, it corrects a technical flaw that could, in some edge cases,
prevent an empty intermediate page from being deleted.
Second, it sorts directory entries within a page (other than order
book page entries, which remain strictly FIFO). This makes insert
operations deterministic, instead of pseudo-random and reliant on
temporal ordering.
Lastly, it removes the ability to perform a "soft delete" where
the page number of the item to delete need not be known if the
item is in the first 20 pages, and enforces a maximum limit to
the number of pages that a directory can span.
