This is just for testing for now, TLV payload computation will come next. We
stage all the payloads in deserialized form so modifiers can modify them more
easily and serialize them only before actually calling `createonion`.
This is necessary so we can build the absolute locktimes in the next step. For
now just fetch the blockheight on each (sub-)payment, later we can reuse the
root blockheight if it ends up using too much traffic.
A payment is considered finished if it is in a final state (success or
failure) or all its sub-payments are finished. If that's the case we notify
`payment_finished` and bubble up through `payment_child_finished`, eventually
bubbling up to the root, which can then report success of failure back to the
RPC command that initiated the whole process.
This is likely a bit of overkill for this type of functionality, but it is a
nice first use-case of how functionality can be compartmentalized into
modifiers. If makes swapping retry mechanisms in and out really simple.
This should make it easy for JSON-RPC functions and modifiers to get the
associated data for a given modifier name. Useful if a modifier needs to
access its parent's modifier data, or in other functions that need to access
modifier data, e.g., when passing destination pointers into the `param()`
call.
This commit can be reverted/skipped once we have implemented all the logic and
have feature parity with the normal `pay`. It's main purpose is to expose the
unfinished functionality to test it, without completely breaking the existing
`pay` command.
This should not affect any consumer of the API since we just shift the actual
implementation from one side to the other, and keep aliases in place so
scripts don't break.
We also bump the version number from 0.0.7.3 to 0.7.4 which allows us to be in
sync with c-lightning itself, and remove the superfluous `0` in front.
This is the first step to transition to a better organized python module
structure. Sadly we can't reuse the `pylightning` module as a namespace module
since having importable things in the top level of the namespace is not
allowed in any of the namespace variants [1], hence we just switch over to the
`pyln` namespace. The code the was under `lightning` will now be reachable
under `pyln.client` and we add the `pyln.proto` module for all the things that
are independent of talking to lightningd and can be used for protocol testing.
[1] https://packaging.python.org/guides/packaging-namespace-packages/
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Christian Decker