Module ln

Implementations of various parts of the Lightning protocol are in this module.

Modules

• bolt11_payment
  Convenient utilities for paying Lightning invoices.
• chan_utils
  Various utilities for building scripts related to channels. These are largely of interest for those implementing the traits on crate::sign by hand.
• channel_keys
  Keys used to generate commitment transactions. See: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/03-transactions.md#keys
• channel_state
  Information about the state of a channel.
• channelmanager
  The top-level channel management and payment tracking stuff lives here.
• inbound_payment
  Utilities to generate inbound payment information in service of invoice creation.
• invoice_utils
  Convenient utilities to create an invoice.
• msgs
  Wire messages, traits representing wire message handlers, and a few error types live here.
• onion_payment
  Utilities to decode payment onions and do contextless validation of incoming payments.
• peer_handler
  Top level peer message handling and socket handling logic lives here.
• script
  Abstractions for scripts used in the Lightning Network.
• types
  Various wrapper types (most around 32-byte arrays) for use in lightning.
• wire
  Wire encoding/decoding for Lightning messages according to BOLT #1, and for custom message through the CustomMessageReader trait.

Constants

• LN_MAX_MSG_LEN
  Maximum Lightning message data length according to BOLT-8 and BOLT-1:

Functions

• create_payment_onion
  Build a payment onion, returning the first hop msat and cltv values as well. cur_block_height should be set to the best known block height + 1.