From 0ebf2b764876df936bcd3f5a4d4ccd0bba829427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Whitenack <whitenack.daniel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:07:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] return address from create account function

---
 src/gethdep.go | 10 ++++++----
 src/library.go |  9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gethdep.go b/src/gethdep.go
index 0bdcb4ff7..a0bba2c85 100644
--- a/src/gethdep.go
+++ b/src/gethdep.go
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ var (
 	scryptP = 1
 )
 
-func createAccount(password, keydir string) error {
+// createAccount creates an internal geth account
+func createAccount(password, keydir string) (string, error) {
 
 	var sync *[]node.Service
 	w := true
@@ -21,15 +22,16 @@ func createAccount(password, keydir string) error {
 
 	account, err := accman.NewAccount(password, w)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return "", err
 	}
 
 	address := fmt.Sprintf("{%x}", account.Address)
-	fmt.Println(address)
-	return nil
+	return address, nil
 
 }
 
+// createAndStartNode creates a node entity and starts the
+// node running locally
 func createAndStartNode(datadir string) error {
 
 	currentNode := MakeNode(datadir)
diff --git a/src/library.go b/src/library.go
index d5c7df18f..910af9b77 100644
--- a/src/library.go
+++ b/src/library.go
@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ import (
 )
 
 //export doCreateAccount
-func doCreateAccount(password, keydir *C.char) C.int {
+func doCreateAccount(password, keydir *C.char) (*C.char, C.int) {
 	// This is equivalent to creating an account from the command line,
 	// just modified to handle the function arg passing
-	if err := createAccount(C.GoString(password), C.GoString(keydir)); err != nil {
+	address, err := createAccount(C.GoString(password), C.GoString(keydir))
+	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
-		return -1
+		return C.CString(""), -1
 	}
-	return 0
+	return C.CString(address), 0
 }
 
 // export doStartNode