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lightning-sendonionmessage -- low-level command to send an onion message
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SYNOPSIS
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**(WARNING: experimental-onion-messages only)**
**sendonionmessage** *hops* \[*reply_path*\]
DESCRIPTION
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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
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On success, an empty JSON object is returned.
AUTHOR
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Rusty Russell <<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>> is mainly responsible.
SEE ALSO
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lightning-fetchinvoice(7), lightning-offer(7).
RESOURCES
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Main web site: <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>
[bolt04]: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/04-onion-routing.md