As part of the preparation to the switch interceptor feature, this
function is changed to return error instead of error channel that
is closed automatically.
Returning an error channel has become complex to maintain and
implement when adding more asynchronous flows to the switch.
The change doesn't affect the current behavior which logs the
errors as before.
Now that packet failure is handled by the mailbox, we can now enforce
a delivery deadline and fail the packet if it the deadilne is exceeded.
This gives senders quicker feedback about tried routes, and allows them
to try alternative paths to the destination in the meantime.
This commit splits the packet courier internally into two distinct
queues, one for adds and one for settles+fails. This allows us to
prioritize HTLCs that will clear the commitment transaction and make
space for adds. Previously this responsibility was handled by the
overflow queue.
This commit delays the advancement of the pktHead until after the
message has been delivered. This is a prepatory step, as in the future
we may fail to deliver the packet due to a deadline expiring.
This commit moves the current logic for sending failures out of the link
and into the mailbox in preparation for our failing delayed htlcs. We do
so because the mailbox may need to fail packets while the link is
offline, and needs to be able to complete the task without member
methods on the link.
A following commits will move/modify callsites of AckPacket, Start, and
Stop, none of which use the return value and ultimately cause the linter
to complain. However, none of these in-memory operations can fail so we
just remove the returned errors altogether.
In this commit, we add a new method: ProcessContractResolution. This
will be used by entities of the contract court package to notify us
whenever they discover that we can resolve an incoming contract
off-chain after the outgoing contract was fully resolved on-chain.
We’ll take a contractcourt.ResolutionMsg and map it to the proper
internal package so we can fully resolve an active circuit.
In this commit, we add a new abstraction to the package: the mailBox.
The mailBox is a non-blocking, concurrent safe, in-order queue for
delivering messages to a given channelLink instance. With this
abstraction in place, we can now allow the switch to no longer launch a
new goroutine for each forwarded HTLC, or instantiated user payment.
