Wallet location different between RPC API and cleos

Question

When running a local node (on a Mac), the RPC API uses a different location to locate the wallets compared to the cleos CLI.

RPC (E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8888/v1/wallet/list_wallets) uses:

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/eosio/nodeos/data/./default.wallet

cleos (E.g. cleos wallet unlock) uses:

/Users/<username>/eosio-wallet/./default.wallet

Q1. Why are the wallet locations different for the same nodeos running locally when accessed via RPC vs cleos?

Q2. Is there a way to make them both reference the same location for wallets?

This is how I run my node locally:

nodeos -e -p eosio --plugin eosio::wallet_api_plugin --plugin eosio::chain_api_plugin --plugin eosio::history_api_plugin --contracts-console

Answer 1

The keosd wallet daemon has an option to set the wallet directory.

--wallet-dir arg (=".") The path of the wallet files (absolute path or relative to application data dir)

If you have the wallet plugin enabled in nodeos, the same parameter can be used for it to set its wallet location as well.

Answer 2

Can't you just symlink one directory to other?

mv /Users//eosio-wallet /Users//eosio-wallet.backup; cd /Users//Library/Application Support/eosio/nodeos; ln -s ./data /Users//eosio-wallet