NAME

lightning-sendonionmessage - low-level command to send an onion message

SYNOPSIS

(WARNING: experimental-onion-messages only)

sendonionmessage hops [reply_path]

DESCRIPTION

The sendonionmessage RPC command can be used to send a message via the lightning network. These are currently used by offers to request and receive invoices.

hops is an array of json objects: id as a public key of the node, and either rawtlv containing a hexidecimal TLV to include, or any of the fields short_channel_id, blinding, enctlv, invoice, invoice_request and invoice_error to construct the onionmessage TLV with.

reply_path is a json object, containing a pubkey blinding, and an array path of objects containing id (a pubkey) and enctlv (a hex value, optional for final element).

RETURN VALUE

On success, an empty object is returned.

AUTHOR

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> is mainly responsible.

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