We will eventually start emitting and dispatching custom notifications
from plugins just like we dispatch internal notifications. In order to
get reasonable error messages we need to make sure that the topics
plugins are asking for were correctly registered. When doing this we
don't really care about whether the plugin that registered the
notification is still alive or not (it might have died, but
subscribers should stay up and running), so we keep a list of all
topics attached to the `struct plugins` which gathers global plugin
information.
We currently log every kill at INFO level, even if it's during shutdown.
Change those to debug, but lift those where we got a malformed response.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
"multi" means that specifying a parameter twice will append, not override.
Multi args are always given as a JSON array, even if only one.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changelog-Added: Plugins: new "multi" field allows an option to be specified multiple times.
We previously registered hooks up in who-replies-to-getmanifest-first
order, but then if any had dependencies it would scatter that order.
This allows users to manually set dependencies developers have
forgotten by specifying the plugins manually in their configuration or
cmdline. This was an excellent consideration by @mschmook.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
time lightning-cli -R --network=regtest --lightning-dir /tmp/ltests-k8jhvtty/test_pay_stress_1/lightning-1/ listpays > /dev/null
Before:
real 0m42.741s
user 0m0.149s
sys 0m0.016s
After:
real 0m13.674s
user 0m0.131s
sys 0m0.024s
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changelog-Fixed: JSON-RPC: significant speedups for plugins which create large JSON replies (e.g. listpays on large nodes).
This lets us handle it the same way we handle builtin commands, and also
lets us warn if they use deprecated apis and allow-deprecated-apis=false.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changelog-Added: Plugins: can now mark their options and commands deprecated.
Changelog-Added: New option `--important-plugin` loads a plugin is so important that if it dies, `lightningd` will exit rather than continue. You can still `--disable-plugin` it, however, which trumps `--important-plugin` and it will not be started at all.
The previous implementation was a bit lazy: in particular, since we didn't
remember the disabled plugins, we would load them on rescan.
Changelog-Changed: config: the `plugin-disable` option works even if specified before the plugin is found.
That's more convenient for most callers, which don't need a fmt.
Fixed-by: Darosior <darosior@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This will allow the dynamic starting code to use them too.
Also lets us move dev_debug_subprocess under #if DEVELOPER.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This will let us unify the startup and runtime-started infrastructure.
Note that there are two kinds of notifications:
1. Starting a single plugin (i.e. `plugin start`)
2. Starting multiple plugins (i.e. `plugin rescan` or `plugin startdir`).
In the latter case, we want the command to complete only once *all*
the plugins are dead/finished.
We also call plugin_kill() in all cases, and correctly return afterwards
(it matters once we use the same paths for dynamic plugins, which don't
cause a fatal error if they don't startup).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The symptom (under heavy load and valgrind) in test_plugin_command:
lightningd: common/json_stream.c:237: json_stream_output_: Assertion `!js->reader' failed.
This is because we try to call `getmanifest` again on `pay` which has not yet
responded to init.
The minimal fix for this is to keep proper state, so we can tell the
difference between "not yet called getmanifest" and "not yet finished
init".
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We use the new function `plugins_free` to define the correct deallocation
order on shutdown, since under normal operation the allocation tree is
organized to allow plugins to terminate and automatically free all dependent
resources. During shutdown the deallocation order is under-defined since
siblings may get freed in any order, but we implicitly rely on them staying
around.
We now track all pending RPC passthrough calls, and terminate them with an
error if the plugin dies.
Changelog-Fixed: JSON-RPC: Pending RPC method calls are now terminated if the handling plugin exits prematurely.
This cleans up the boutique handling of features, and importantly, it
means that if a plugin says to offer a feature in init, we will now
*accept* that feature.
Changelog-Fixed: Plugins: setting an 'init' feature bit allows us to accept it from peers.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
also: convert the stored int value from 'int' to 's64'
atoi fails silently, returning a zero. instead we use the more robust
strtoll which will allow us fail with an error.
we also make the parsing for bools stricter, only allowing plausibly
boolean values to parse.
I was wondering why TAGS was missing some functions, and finally
tracked it down: PRINTF_FMT() confuses etags if it's at the start
of a function, and it ignores the rest of the file.
So we put PRINTF_FMT at the end, but that doesn't work for
*definitions*, only *declarations*. So we remove it from definitions
and add gratuitous declarations in the few static places.1
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This adds a 'configured' boolean member to the plugin struct so that we can add plugins to ld->plugins' list and differenciate fresh plugins.
This also adds 'plugins_start' so that new plugins can be started without calling 'plugins_init' and running an io loop
