core-lightning/doc/lightning-createinvoice.7.md
Rusty Russell 723c16072a cleanups: feedback from Christian Decker review.
1. Hoist 7200 constant into the bolt12 heade2.
2. Make preimage the last createinvoice arg, so we could make it optional.
3. Check the validity of the preimage in createinvoice.
4. Always output used flag in listoffers.
5. Rename wallet offer iterators to offer_id iterators.
6. Fix paramter typos.
7. Rename `local_offer_id` parameter to `localofferid`.
8. Add reference constraints on local_offer_id db fields.
9. Remove cut/paste comment.
10. Clarify source of fatal() messages in wallet.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2020-12-15 12:05:02 +01:00

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lightning-createinvoice -- Low-level invoice creation
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SYNOPSIS
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**createinvoice** *invstring* *label* *preimage*
DESCRIPTION
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The **createinvoice** RPC command signs and saves an invoice into the
database.
The *invstring* parameter is of bolt11 form, but without the final
signature appended. Minimal sanity checks are done.
The *label* must be a unique string or number (which is treated as a
string, so "01" is different from "1"); it is never revealed to other
nodes on the lightning network, but it can be used to query the status
of this invoice.
The *preimage* is the preimage to supply upon successful payment of
the invoice.
RETURN VALUE
------------
On success, an invoice object is returned, as per listinvoices(7).
On failure, an error is returned and no invoice is created. If the
lightning process fails before responding, the caller should use
lightning-listinvoices(7) to query whether this invoice was created or
not.
The following error codes may occur:
- -1: Catchall nonspecific error.
- 900: An invoice with the given *label* already exists.
AUTHOR
------
Rusty Russell <<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>> is mainly responsible.
SEE ALSO
--------
lightning-invoice(7), lightning-listinvoices(7), lightning-delinvoice(7),
lightning-getroute(7), lightning-sendpay(7).
RESOURCES
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Main web site: <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>