lightning-decodepay - Command for decoding a bolt11 string (low-level)
decodepay bolt11 [description]
The decodepay RPC command checks and parses a bolt11 string as
specified by the BOLT 11 specification.
On success, an object is returned, containing:
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- currency (string): the BIP173 name for the currency
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- created_at (u64): the UNIX-style timestamp of the invoice
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- expiry (u64): the number of seconds this is valid after
timestamp
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- payee (pubkey): the public key of the recipient
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- payment_hash (hex): the hash of the payment_preimage (always
64 characters)
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- signature (signature): signature of the payee on this
invoice
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- min_final_cltv_expiry (u32): the minimum CLTV delay for the final
node
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- amount_msat (msat, optional): Amount the invoice asked for
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- description (string, optional): the description of the purpose of
the purchase
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- description_hash (hex, optional): the hash of the description, in
place of description (always 64 characters)
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- payment_secret (hex, optional): the secret to hand to the payee
node (always 64 characters)
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- features (hex, optional): the features bitmap for this invoice
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- fallbacks (array of objects, optional): onchain addresses:
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- type (string): the address type (if known) (one of
"P2PKH", "P2SH", "P2WPKH",
"P2WSH")
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- hex (hex): Raw encoded address
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- addr (string, optional): the address in appropriate format for
type
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- routes (array of arrays, optional): Route hints to the
payee:
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- hops in the route:
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- pubkey (pubkey): the public key of the node
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- short_channel_id (short_channel_id): a channel to the next
peer
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- fee_base_msat (u32): the base fee for payments
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- fee_proportional_millionths (u32): the parts-per-million fee for
payments
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- cltv_expiry_delta (u32): the CLTV delta across this hop
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- extra (array of objects, optional): Any extra fields we didn't know
how to parse:
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- tag (string): The bech32 letter which identifies this field (always
1 characters)
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- data (string): The bech32 data for this field
Technically, the description field is optional if a
description_hash field is given, but in this case decodepay
will only succeed if the optional description field is passed and
matches the description_hash. In practice, these are currently
unused.
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> is mainly responsible.
lightning-pay(7), lightning-getroute(7),
lightning-sendpay(7).
BOLT #11
(https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/11-payment-encoding.md).
Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning