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@ -61,5 +61,88 @@ float tx_total = tx_amount + tx_fee;
### X. Prepare Your RPC
Obviously, you're going to need to get all of your variables ready again, as discussed in [§12.2: Accessing Bitcoind with C](12_2_Accessing_Bitcoind_with_C.md). You also need to initialize your library, connect your RPC client, and prepare your response object:
```
bitcoinrpc_global_init();
rpc_client = bitcoinrpc_cl_init_params ("bitcoinrpc", "73bd45ba60ab8f9ff9846b6404769487", "127.0.0.1", 18332);
btcresponse = bitcoinrpc_resp_init();
```
### 3. Find a UTXO
To find a UTXO you must call the `listunspent` RPC:
```
rpc_method = bitcoinrpc_method_init(BITCOINRPC_METHOD_LISTUNSPENT);
bitcoinrpc_call(rpc_client, rpc_method, btcresponse, &btcerror);
```
However, the real work comes in decoding the response. We said that the `jansson` library was "somewhat clunky" and this is why: you have to create (and clear) a very large set of `json_t` objects in order to dig down to what you want.
First, you must retrieve the `result` field from JSON:
```
json_t *lu_response = NULL;
json_t *lu_result = NULL;
lu_response = bitcoinrpc_resp_get (btcresponse);
lu_result = json_object_get(lu_response,"result");
```
Then, you go into a loop, examining each unspent transaction, which appears as an element in your JSON result array:
```
int i;
const char *tx_id = 0;
int tx_vout = 0;
double tx_amount = 0.0;
for (i = 0 ; i < json_array_size(lu_result) ; i++) {
json_t *lu_data = NULL;
lu_data = json_array_get(lu_result, i);
json_t *lu_amount = NULL;
lu_amount = json_object_get(lu_data,"amount");
tx_amount = json_real_value(lu_amount);
```
Is the UTXO large enough to pay out your transaction? If so, grab it!
```
if (tx_amount > tx_total) {
json_t *lu_txid = NULL;
lu_txid = json_object_get(lu_data,"txid");
tx_id = strdup(json_string_value(lu_txid));
json_t *lu_vout = NULL;
lu_vout = json_object_get(lu_data,"vout");
tx_vout = json_integer_value(lu_vout);
json_decref(lu_amount);
json_decref(lu_txid);
json_decref(lu_vout);
json_decref(lu_data);
break;
}
```
Make sure to clean things up as you go through failed loops:
```
json_decref(lu_amount);
json_decref(lu_data);
}
json_decref(lu_result);
json_decref(lu_response);
```
If you didn't find any large-enough UTXOs, you'll have to report that sad fact to the user ... and perhaps suggest that they should use a better sending program that will correctly merge UTXOs.
```
if (!tx_id) {
printf("Very Sad: You don't have any UTXOs larger than %f",tx_total);
exit(-1);
}
printf("We are using txid %s with vout %i\n",tx_id,tx_vout);
```
> **WARNING:** A real program would use subroutines for this sort of lookup, so that you could confidentally call various RPCs from a library of C functions. We're just going to blob it all into `main` as part of our KISS philosophy of simple examples.
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