Bunch of personal_* RPC methods unknown

[SinErgy84]

Client: Parity/v1.4.3-beta-a1a03a6-20161116/x86_64-linux-gnu/rustc1.13.0
Run-options: - --jsonrpc-apis "web3,eth,net,personal,rpc"

I've tried some functions like

• personal_newAccountFromPhrase
• personal_newAccountFromWallet
• personal_accountsInfo

mentioned in https://github.com/ethcore/parity/wiki/JSONRPC-personal-module
but they all results in error that the method is not found / unknown.

Counter-sample: personal_signAndSendTransaction works like expected

Please provide also compatibility with geth-client-method personal_importRawKey to use same api calls.

[tomusdrw]

We've recently moved all Parity-specific methods out of "standarized" namespaces and most of the methods are now part of parity_* namespace #3143 . Seems that the docs are not updated, I will update the docs, but in the meantime you can have a look at the code to see what methods are supported:
Personal:
https://github.com/ethcore/parity/blob/master/rpc/src/v1/traits/personal.rs#L25
Parity:
https://github.com/ethcore/parity/blob/master/rpc/src/v1/traits/parity_accounts.rs#L26

[SinErgy84]

@tomusdrw Thank you!
It's kinda hard sometimes to differentiate in the release-notes /-changelog between important major changes concerning usage and minor changes concerning cosmetic refactoring.

Some time ago I also experienced that the personal-module was disabled from default-loaded-jsonrpc-modules in 1.3.?? and re-enabled by next version-change, but it needed some investigation of commits to find the clue.

You're doing great work thumb up, but it would be nice if you provide more details on your release-notes and "improve communication / documentation".

[tomusdrw]

Thanks, yes we have now a new label to mark PRs with significant changes that should be included in release notes.

The personal module should be disabled by default in all versions now (it contains some unsafe methods) - I'll verify that too.