This commit adds an optional PaymentAddr field to the RestrictParams, so
that we can verify the final hop can support it before doing an
expensive round of pathfindig.
In this commit, we fix a bug that prevents us from sending custom
records to nodes that aren't in the graph. Previously we would simply
fail if we were unable to retrieve the node's features.
To remedy, we add the option of supplying the destination's feature bits
into path finding. If present, we will use them directly without
consulting the graph, resolving the original issue. Instead, we will
only consult the graph as a fallback, which will still fail if the node
doesn't exist since the TLV features won't be populated in the empty
feature vector.
Furthermore, this also permits us to provide "virtual features" into the
pathfinding logic, where we make assumptions about what the receiver
supports even if the feature vector isn't actually taken from an
invoice. This can useful in cases like keysend, where we don't have an
invoice, but we can still attempt the payment if we assume the receiver
supports TLV.
This commit allows custom node features to be populated in specific test
instances. For consistency, we auto-populate an empty feature vector for
nodes that have nil feature vectors before writing them to the database.
Previously if a payment was sent with custom records attached, path
finding wouldn't perform a check whether the final node was capable of
receiving custom records in a tlv payload.
This commit prepares for more manipulation of custom records. A list of
tlv.Record types is more difficult to use than the more basic
map[uint64][]byte.
Furthermore fields and variables are renamed to make them more
consistent.
A unified policy differs between local channels and other channels on
the network. There is more information available for local channels and
this is used in the unified policy.
Previously we used the pathfinding source pubkey to determine whether to
apply the local channel logic or not. If queryroutes is executed with a
source node that isn't the self node, this wouldn't work.
When the (virtual) payment attempt cost is set to zero, probabilities
are no longer a factor in determining the best route. In case of routes
with equal costs, we'd just go with the first one found. This commit
refines this behavior by picking the route with the highest probability.
So even though probability doesn't affect the route cost, it is still
used as a tie breaker.
This prepares for routing to self. When checking the condition at the
start, the loop would terminate immediately because the source is equal
to the target.
This commit modifies the FetchPayment method to return MPPayment structs
converted from the legacy on-disk format. This allows us to attach the
HTLCs to the events given to clients subscribing to the outcome of an
HTLC.
This commit also bubbles up to the routerrpc/router_server, by
populating HTLCAttempts in the response and extracting the legacy route
field from the HTLCAttempts.
Previously we used the a priori probability also for our own untried
channels. This led to local channels that had seen a success already
being prioritized over untried local channels. In some cases, depending
on the configured payment attempt cost, this could lead to the payment
taking a two hop route while a direct payment was also possible.
