Error "Chain RPC is inactive" but btcd is running...

[msafi]

I'm running both btcwallet and btcd, and I think I have the right configurations for them to talk to each other. But when I run the following curl command:

curl -u 1:1 --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getwalletinfo", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:18332

I get

{"result":null,"error":{"code":-1,"message":"Chain RPC is inactive"},"id":"curltest"}

btcd is still going through initial block download. Is that why I'm getting the error? Or is it something else?

[msafi]

I looked through the code, and I'm not sure if I'm reading it correctly, but here's what I found out...

I'm starting btcwallet with the --noinitialload flag, which disables the rpcClientConnectLoop function. chainClient gets set inside rpcClientConnectLoop, which never runs because of --noinitialload.

I tried using the RPC command createwallet, but it still returned "Chain RPC is inactive", which makes sense given the way the code is written.

Now I'm not sure how to create a wallet programmatically without using --noinitialload.