Generating new adress with empty descriptor gives 0 exit code

[torkelrogstad]

Describe the bug
Calling get_new_address with an empty descriptor prints an error, but exits with 0.

To Reproduce

$ bdk-cli --network signet wallet --descriptor "" get_new_address
$ echo $?
0

Expected behavior
I'd expect a non-0 exit code.

Build environment

• BDK-CLI tag/commit: 0.27.1
• OS+version: macOS
• Rust/Cargo version: cargo 1.74.1 (ecb9851af 2023-10-18)

[tvpeter]

The v1 update returns an error:

ERROR bdk_cli] Generic error: Miniscript error: unexpected «(0 args) while parsing Miniscript»

Please confirm that the issue is resolved and close it.

[va-an]

@tvpeter

I've got the same error message for 0.27.1:

-> % cargo install bdk-cli --features electrum
    Updating crates.io index
  Installing bdk-cli v0.27.1
...
    Finished `release` profile [optimized] target(s) in 18.99s
  Installing /Users/vaan/.cargo/bin/bdk-cli
   Installed package `bdk-cli v0.27.1` (executable `bdk-cli`)
-> % bdk-cli --network signet wallet --descriptor "" get_new_address
[2025-04-17T10:23:37Z ERROR bdk_cli] Descriptor error: Miniscript error: unexpected «(0 args) while parsing Miniscript»
vaan@mbpro [14:23:37] [~]
-> % echo $?
0

The the issue is still here - return code is zero despite error message.

My PR #173 with a fix points to master, but if I execute the same command in the current master branch, there will be a different error. It seems that master is quite different from the current actual release 0.27.1.

Should I direct my fix to the release/0.27.1 branch instead of master?

[tvpeter]

Hi @va-an , thanks for reproducing the error.

My PR #173 with a fix points to master, but if I execute the same command in the current master branch, there will be a different error

Yes, it produces a different error message

It seems that master is quite different from the current actual release 0.27.1.

Yes, the current master state has not been released yet.

Should I direct my fix to the release/0.27.1 branch instead of master?

Your fix should point to master as it is now.

Please rebase with the lastest master so that your PR will be reviewed. It currently has conflicts.

Thank you

[va-an]

@tvpeter, thanks for clarifying this for me!
I reset my branch to origin/master and manually transferred the changes with force push to simplify the history.