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Author SHA1 Message Date
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
b126298b2b
routing: implement route failure fallback in SendPayment
This commit adds payment route failure fallback to SendPayment. By
this, we mean that we now take all the possible routes found during
path finding and try them in series. Either a route fails and we move
onto the next one, or the route is successful and we terminate early.

With this commit, sending payments using lnd is now much more robust as
if there exists an eligible route with sufficient capacity, it will be
utilized.
2017-03-21 12:20:45 -07:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
1df5bece85
routing: FindRoute is now FindRoutes, uses our KSP algo, ranks by fee
This commit modifies the existing FindRoute method on the ChannelRouter
to now use the KSP implementation added in a prior commit.

This new method FindRoutes, is able to find all the possible paths
between a source and destination. The method takes all paths reported
by findPaths, and attempt to turn each of them into a route. A route
differs from a path in that is has complete time-lock and fee
information. Some paths may not be able to be turned into routes as
once fees are accounted for the have an insufficient flow. We then take
the routes, sort them by total fee (with time-lock being a
time-breaker), then return them in sorted order.
2017-03-21 12:20:40 -07:00