From 5707912e2f7d49b3654d616ddae3439e6dc201c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Gerring <taylor.gerring@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:36:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] "pending" convention should be -2 instead of 0

---
 rpc/args.go  |  2 +-
 xeth/xeth.go | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rpc/args.go b/rpc/args.go
index 4b59f83b7..6e02b65ef 100644
--- a/rpc/args.go
+++ b/rpc/args.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ func blockHeight(raw interface{}, number *int64) (err error) {
 	case "latest":
 		*number = -1
 	case "pending":
-		*number = 0
+		*number = -2
 	default:
 		*number = common.String2Big(str).Int64()
 	}
diff --git a/xeth/xeth.go b/xeth/xeth.go
index 23e523980..f7f4ce0cf 100644
--- a/xeth/xeth.go
+++ b/xeth/xeth.go
@@ -176,9 +176,12 @@ func (self *XEth) AtStateNum(num int64) *XEth {
 	chain := self.Backend().ChainManager()
 	var block *types.Block
 
+	// -1 generally means "latest"
+	// -2 means "pending", which has no blocknum
 	if num < 0 {
-		num = chain.CurrentBlock().Number().Int64() + num + 1
+		num = chain.CurrentBlock().Number().Int64()
 	}
+
 	block = chain.GetBlockByNumber(uint64(num))
 
 	var st *state.StateDB
@@ -229,6 +232,11 @@ func (self *XEth) EthTransactionByHash(hash string) *types.Transaction {
 }
 
 func (self *XEth) BlockByNumber(num int64) *Block {
+	if num == -2 {
+		// "pending" is non-existant
+		return &Block{}
+	}
+
 	if num == -1 {
 		return NewBlock(self.chainManager.CurrentBlock())
 	}
@@ -237,6 +245,11 @@ func (self *XEth) BlockByNumber(num int64) *Block {
 }
 
 func (self *XEth) EthBlockByNumber(num int64) *types.Block {
+	if num == -2 {
+		// "pending" is non-existant
+		return &types.Block{}
+	}
+
 	if num == -1 {
 		return self.chainManager.CurrentBlock()
 	}