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lightning-fetchinvoice -- Command for fetch an invoice for an offer
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SYNOPSIS
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**(WARNING: experimental-offers only)**
**fetchinvoice** *offer* [*amount\_msat*] [*quantity*] [*recurrence\_counter*] [*recurrence\_start*] [*recurrence\_label*] [*timeout*] [*payer\_note*]
DESCRIPTION
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The **fetchinvoice** RPC command contacts the issuer of an *offer* to get
an actual invoice that can be paid. It highlights any changes between the
offer and the returned invoice.
If **fetchinvoice-noconnect** is not specified in the configuation, it
will connect to the destination in the (currently common!) case where it
cannot find a route which supports `option_onion_messages`.
*amount\_msat* is required if the *offer* does not specify an amount
at all, otherwise it is optional (but presumably if you set it to less
than the offer, you will get an error from the issuer).
*quantity* is is required if the *offer* specifies
*quantity\_max*, otherwise it is not allowed.
doc: escape more naughty underscores The only time underscores aren't special in Markdown is when they appear in preformatted text. We have gotten away with not escaping underscores where an asterisk-enclosed span or the paragraph ends before the next underscore appears, but this is fragile and bad practice. Conversely, there are many places where we have not escaped underscores but needed to. Escape all underscores that do not appear in preformatted blocks or preformatted spans and are not themselves delineating emphasized spans. The changes in this commit are exactly the result of executing the following Bash code: ```bash e=':x;' # begin loop e+='s/^' # anchor match at beginning of line e+='(' # begin capturing subexpression e+='(' # begin list of alternatives e+='[^`_\\]|' # any mundane character, or e+='`([^`\\]|\\.)*`|' # backtick-enclosed span, or e+='\b_|_\b|' # underscore at boundary, or e+='\\.' # backslash-escaped character e+=')*' # any number of the preceding alternatives e+=')' # end capturing subexpression e+='\B_\B/\1\\_/;' # escape non-formatting underscore e+='tx' # repeat loop if we escaped an underscore escape_underscores=( sed # use extended regular expressions -E # skip over indented blocks (following an empty line) -e '/^$/{:i;n;/^( {4,}|\t)/bi}' # skip over preformatted blocks -e '/^\s*```/,/^\s*```/{p;d}' # skip over generated sections -e '/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-START/,/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-END/{p;d}' # escape underscores -e "${e}" ) "${escape_underscores[@]}" -i doc/*.[0-9].md ``` Changelog-None
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*recurrence\_counter* is required if the *offer*
specifies *recurrence*, otherwise it is not allowed.
doc: escape more naughty underscores The only time underscores aren't special in Markdown is when they appear in preformatted text. We have gotten away with not escaping underscores where an asterisk-enclosed span or the paragraph ends before the next underscore appears, but this is fragile and bad practice. Conversely, there are many places where we have not escaped underscores but needed to. Escape all underscores that do not appear in preformatted blocks or preformatted spans and are not themselves delineating emphasized spans. The changes in this commit are exactly the result of executing the following Bash code: ```bash e=':x;' # begin loop e+='s/^' # anchor match at beginning of line e+='(' # begin capturing subexpression e+='(' # begin list of alternatives e+='[^`_\\]|' # any mundane character, or e+='`([^`\\]|\\.)*`|' # backtick-enclosed span, or e+='\b_|_\b|' # underscore at boundary, or e+='\\.' # backslash-escaped character e+=')*' # any number of the preceding alternatives e+=')' # end capturing subexpression e+='\B_\B/\1\\_/;' # escape non-formatting underscore e+='tx' # repeat loop if we escaped an underscore escape_underscores=( sed # use extended regular expressions -E # skip over indented blocks (following an empty line) -e '/^$/{:i;n;/^( {4,}|\t)/bi}' # skip over preformatted blocks -e '/^\s*```/,/^\s*```/{p;d}' # skip over generated sections -e '/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-START/,/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-END/{p;d}' # escape underscores -e "${e}" ) "${escape_underscores[@]}" -i doc/*.[0-9].md ``` Changelog-None
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*recurrence\_counter* should first be set to 0, and incremented for
each successive invoice in a given series.
doc: escape more naughty underscores The only time underscores aren't special in Markdown is when they appear in preformatted text. We have gotten away with not escaping underscores where an asterisk-enclosed span or the paragraph ends before the next underscore appears, but this is fragile and bad practice. Conversely, there are many places where we have not escaped underscores but needed to. Escape all underscores that do not appear in preformatted blocks or preformatted spans and are not themselves delineating emphasized spans. The changes in this commit are exactly the result of executing the following Bash code: ```bash e=':x;' # begin loop e+='s/^' # anchor match at beginning of line e+='(' # begin capturing subexpression e+='(' # begin list of alternatives e+='[^`_\\]|' # any mundane character, or e+='`([^`\\]|\\.)*`|' # backtick-enclosed span, or e+='\b_|_\b|' # underscore at boundary, or e+='\\.' # backslash-escaped character e+=')*' # any number of the preceding alternatives e+=')' # end capturing subexpression e+='\B_\B/\1\\_/;' # escape non-formatting underscore e+='tx' # repeat loop if we escaped an underscore escape_underscores=( sed # use extended regular expressions -E # skip over indented blocks (following an empty line) -e '/^$/{:i;n;/^( {4,}|\t)/bi}' # skip over preformatted blocks -e '/^\s*```/,/^\s*```/{p;d}' # skip over generated sections -e '/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-START/,/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-END/{p;d}' # escape underscores -e "${e}" ) "${escape_underscores[@]}" -i doc/*.[0-9].md ``` Changelog-None
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*recurrence\_start* is required if the *offer*
specifies *recurrence\_base* with *start\_any\_period* set, otherwise it
is not allowed. It indicates what period number to start at.
doc: escape more naughty underscores The only time underscores aren't special in Markdown is when they appear in preformatted text. We have gotten away with not escaping underscores where an asterisk-enclosed span or the paragraph ends before the next underscore appears, but this is fragile and bad practice. Conversely, there are many places where we have not escaped underscores but needed to. Escape all underscores that do not appear in preformatted blocks or preformatted spans and are not themselves delineating emphasized spans. The changes in this commit are exactly the result of executing the following Bash code: ```bash e=':x;' # begin loop e+='s/^' # anchor match at beginning of line e+='(' # begin capturing subexpression e+='(' # begin list of alternatives e+='[^`_\\]|' # any mundane character, or e+='`([^`\\]|\\.)*`|' # backtick-enclosed span, or e+='\b_|_\b|' # underscore at boundary, or e+='\\.' # backslash-escaped character e+=')*' # any number of the preceding alternatives e+=')' # end capturing subexpression e+='\B_\B/\1\\_/;' # escape non-formatting underscore e+='tx' # repeat loop if we escaped an underscore escape_underscores=( sed # use extended regular expressions -E # skip over indented blocks (following an empty line) -e '/^$/{:i;n;/^( {4,}|\t)/bi}' # skip over preformatted blocks -e '/^\s*```/,/^\s*```/{p;d}' # skip over generated sections -e '/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-START/,/GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-END/{p;d}' # escape underscores -e "${e}" ) "${escape_underscores[@]}" -i doc/*.[0-9].md ``` Changelog-None
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*recurrence\_label* is required if *recurrence\_counter* is set, and
otherwise is not allowed. It must be the same as prior fetchinvoice
calls for the same recurrence, as it is used to link them together.
*timeout* is an optional timeout; if we don't get a reply before this
we fail (default, 60 seconds).
*payer\_note* is an optional payer note to ask the issuer to include
in the fetched invoice.
RETURN VALUE
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[comment]: # (GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-START)
On success, an object is returned, containing:
- **invoice** (string): The BOLT12 invoice we fetched
- **changes** (object): Summary of changes from offer:
- **description\_appended** (string, optional): extra characters appended to the *description* field.
- **description** (string, optional): a completely replaced *description* field
- **vendor\_removed** (string, optional): The *vendor* from the offer, which is missing in the invoice
- **vendor** (string, optional): a completely replaced *vendor* field
- **amount\_msat** (msat, optional): the amount, if different from the offer amount multiplied by any *quantity* (or the offer had no amount, or was not in BTC).
- **next\_period** (object, optional): Only for recurring invoices if the next period is under the *recurrence\_limit*:
- **counter** (u64): the index of the next period to fetchinvoice
- **starttime** (u64): UNIX timestamp that the next period starts
- **endtime** (u64): UNIX timestamp that the next period ends
- **paywindow\_start** (u64): UNIX timestamp of the earliest time that the next invoice can be fetched
- **paywindow\_end** (u64): UNIX timestamp of the latest time that the next invoice can be fetched
[comment]: # (GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-END)
The following error codes may occur:
- -1: Catchall nonspecific error.
- 1002: Offer has expired.
- 1003: Cannot find a route to the node making the offer.
- 1004: The node making the offer returned an error message.
- 1005: We timed out trying to fetch an invoice.
AUTHOR
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Rusty Russell <<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>> is mainly responsible.
SEE ALSO
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lightning-sendinvoice(7), lightning-pay(7).
RESOURCES
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Main web site: <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>
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