An often requested feature is to use the abandonchannel API in regular
builds and not only dev builds to get rid of stuck channels that had
their funding transaction invalidated.
The initial reason for putting the call behind the build flag was a
safety concern to make sure nobody uses this on active channels by
accident.
The grpc-gateway library that is used to transform REST calls into gRPC
uses a different method for reading a request body stream depending on
whether the RPC is a request-streaming one or not. We can't really find
out what kind of RPC the user is calling at runtime, so we add a new
parameter to the proxy that lists all request-streaming RPC calls.
In any case the client _has_ to send one request message initially to
kick off the request processing. Normally this can just be an empty
message. This can lead to problems if that empty message is not
expected by the gRPC server. But for the currently existing two
client-streaming RPCs this will only trigger a warning
(HTLC interceptor) or be ignored (channel acceptor).
This commit adds a []*lnrpc.NodeAddress typed node_addresses field
on the NodeUpdate message of SubscribeChannelGraph to mirror the
addresses field in the LightningNode message of DescribeGraph.
Fixes https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/4084
This commit deprecates/replaces the old field `sat_per_byte` with
`sat_per_vbyte`. While the old field suggests sat per byte, it’s
actually using sat per virtual byte. We use the Hidden param to hide all
the deprecated flags. These flags won't show up in help menu onwards,
while stay valid that can be passed from cli. Thus bash scripts
referencing these fields won't be broken.
This allows to use FowardingHistory rpc method to receive the data exactly
as it's stored in lnd and to synchronize incrementally the history to an
external database.
We also test that legacy keysend payments are promoted to AMP payments
on the receiver-sdie by asserting basic properties of the fields
returned via the rpc.
As a convenience method for users to look up what RPC method URIs exist
and what permissions they require, we add a new ListPermissions call
that simply returns all registered URIs (including internal and external
subservers) and their required permissions.
To make sure we can use the abandonchannel RPC for getting rid of
externally funded channels who's funding transaction was never
published, we allow the RPC to be used on non-dev builds for externally
funded and pending channels only.
This is useful when we wish to have a channel frozen for a specific
amount of blocks after its confirmation. This could also be done with an
absolute thaw height, but it does not suit cases where a strict block
delta needs to be enforced, as it's not possible to know for certain
when a channel will be included in the chain. To work around this, we
add a relative interpretation of the field, where if its value is below
500,000, then it's interpreted as a relative height. This approach
allows us to prevent further database modifications to account for a
relative thaw height.
