lightning-waitsendpay - Command for sending a payment via a route
waitsendpay payment_hash [timeout] [partid]
The waitsendpay RPC command polls or waits for the status of an outgoing
payment that was initiated by a previous sendpay invocation.
The partid argument must match that of the sendpay
command.
Optionally the client may provide a timeout, an integer in
seconds, for this RPC command to return. If the timeout is provided
and the given amount of time passes without the payment definitely
succeeding or definitely failing, this command returns with a 200 error code
(payment still in progress). If timeout is not provided this call
will wait indefinitely.
Indicating a timeout of 0 effectively makes this call a
pollable query of the status of the payment.
If the payment completed with success, this command returns with
success. Otherwise, if the payment completed with failure, this command
returns an error.
On success, an object is returned, containing:
- •
- id (u64): unique ID for this payment attempt
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- payment_hash (hex): the hash of the payment_preimage which
will prove payment (always 64 characters)
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- status (string): status of the payment (always
"complete")
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- created_at (u64): the UNIX timestamp showing when this payment was
initiated
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- amount_sent_msat (msat): The amount sent
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- groupid (u64, optional): Grouping key to disambiguate multiple
attempts to pay an invoice or the same payment_hash
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- amount_msat (msat, optional): The amount delivered to destination
(if known)
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- destination (pubkey, optional): the final destination of the
payment if known
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- label (string, optional): the label, if given to sendpay
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- partid (u64, optional): the partid, if given to sendpay
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- bolt11 (string, optional): the bolt11 string (if pay supplied
one)
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- bolt12 (string, optional): the bolt12 string (if supplied for pay:
experimental-offers only).
If status is "complete":
- •
- payment_preimage (hex): the proof of payment: SHA256 of this
payment_hash (always 64 characters)
On error, and even if the error occurred from a node other than
the final destination, the route table will no longer be updated. Use the
exclude parameter of the getroute command to ignore the
failing route.
The following error codes may occur:
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- -1: Catchall nonspecific error.
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- 200: Timed out before the payment could complete.
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- 202: Unparseable onion reply. The data field of the error will have
an onionreply field, a hex string representation of the raw onion
reply.
- •
- 203: Permanent failure at destination. The data field of the error
will be routing failure object.
- •
- 204: Failure along route; retry a different route. The data field
of the error will be routing failure object.
- •
- 208: A payment for payment_hash was never made and there is nothing
to wait for.
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- 209: The payment already failed, but the reason for failure was not
stored. This should only occur when querying failed payments on very old
databases.
A routing failure object has the fields below:
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- erring_index: The index of the node along the route that reported
the error. 0 for the local node, 1 for the first hop, and so on.
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- erring_node: The hex string of the pubkey id of the node that
reported the error.
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- erring_channel: The short channel ID of the channel that has the
error (or the final channel if the destination raised the error).
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- erring_direction: The direction of traversing the
erring_channel:
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- failcode: The failure code, as per BOLT #4.
- •
- failcodename: The human-readable name corresponding to
failcode, if known.
ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj@protonmail.com> is mainly responsible.
lightning-sendpay(7), lightning-pay(7).
Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning