In order to reduce the number of calls to the db we try to process as
few channels as we can + try to not do extra work for each of them.
- First fetch all the channels. Then, filter all the public ones and
sort the potential candidates by remote balance.
- Filter out each potential candidate as soon as possible.
- Only check the alias if the channel supports scid aliases.
- Because we sort the channels by remote balance, we will hit the
target amount, if possible, as soon as we can.
We do not want to leak information about our remote balances, so we
shuffle the hop hints (the forced ones go always first) so the invoice
receiver does not know which channels have more balance than others.
This changes the circuit map internals and API to reference circuits
by a primary key of (channel ID, HTLC ID) instead of paymnet
hash. This is because each circuit has a unique offered HTLC, but
there may be multiple circuits for a payment hash with different
source or destination channels.
For Part 1 of Issue #275. Create isolated private struct in
networkHandler goroutine that will de-duplicate
announcements added to the batch. The struct contains maps
for each of channel announcements, channel updates, and
node announcements to keep track of unique announcements.
The struct has a Reset method to reset stored announcements, an
AddMsg(lnwire.Message) method to add a new message to the current
batch, and a Batch method to return the set of de-duplicated
announcements.
Also fix a few minor typos.
This commit does to things: moves the prior ShortChannelID struct into
a new short_channel_id.go file, and also implements the new ChannelID’s
currently used within he specification.
These new ID’s are 32-bytes in length and used during initial channel
funding as well as during normal channel updates. During initial
channel funding, the ID is to be a random 32-byte string, while once
normal channel operation has began, the ID is to be (txid XOR index),
where index is the index of the funding outpoint.
