This field was previous useful in manual retries for users to know when all
paths of a payment have failed and it is safe to retry. Now that we support
automatic retries in ChannelManager and no longer support manual retries, the
field is no longer useful.
For backwards compat, we now always write false for this field. If we didn't do
this, previous versions would default this field's value to true, which can be
problematic because some clients have relied on the field to indicate when a
full payment retry is safe.
Prior to this, we returned PaymentSendFailure from auto retry send payment
methods. This implied that we might return a PartialFailure from them, which
has never been the case. So it makes sense to rework the errors to be a better
fit for the methods.
We're taking error handling in a totally different direction now to make it
more asynchronous, see send_payment_internal for more information.
Long ago, we used the `no_connection_possible` to signal that a
peer has some unknown feature set or some other condition prevents
us from ever connecting to the given peer. In that case we'd
automatically force-close all channels with the given peer. This
was somewhat surprising to users so we removed the automatic
force-close, leaving the flag serving no LDK-internal purpose.
Distilling the concept of "can we connect to this peer again in the
future" to a simple flag turns out to be ripe with edge cases, so
users actually using the flag to force-close channels would likely
cause surprising behavior.
Thus, there's really not a lot of reason to keep the flag,
especially given its untested and likely to be broken in subtle
ways anyway.
The new in-`ChannelManager` retries logic does retries as two
separate steps, under two separate locks - first it calculates
the amount that needs to be retried, then it actually sends it.
Because the first step doesn't udpate the amount, a second thread
may come along and calculate the same amount and end up retrying
duplicatively.
Because we generally shouldn't ever be processing retries at the
same time, the fix is trivial - simply take a lock at the top of
the retry loop and hold it until we're done.
We're no longer supporting manual retries since
ChannelManager::send_payment_with_retry can be parameterized by a retry
strategy
This commit also updates all docs related to retry_payment and abandon_payment.
Since these docs frequently overlap with changes in preceding commits where we
start abandoning payments on behalf of the user, all the docs are updated in
one go.
Adds a new method, `list_recent_payments ` to `ChannelManager` that
returns an array of `RecentPaymentDetails` containing the payment
status (Fulfilled/Retryable/Abandoned) and its total amount across all
paths.
When we landed the initial in-`ChannelManager` payment retries, we
stored the `RouteParameters` in the payment info, and then re-use
it as-is for new payments. `RouteParameters` is intended to store
the information specific to the *route*, `PaymentParameters` exists
to store information specific to a payment.
Worse, because we don't recalculate the amount stored in the
`RouteParameters` before fetching a new route with it, we end up
attempting to retry the full payment amount, rather than only the
failed part.
This issue brought to you by having redundant data in
datastructures, part 5,001.
The documentation for `Retry` is very clear that it counts the
number of failed paths, not discrete retries. When we added
retries internally in `ChannelManager`, we switched to counting
the number if discrete retries, even if multiple paths failed and
were replace with multiple MPP HTLCs.
Because we are now rewriting retries, we take this opportunity to
reduce the places where retries are analyzed, specifically a good
chunk of code is removed from `pay_internal`.
Because we now retry multiple failed paths with one single retry,
we keep the new behavior, updating the docs on `Retry` to describe
the new behavior.
`TestRouter` allows us to simply select the `Route` that will be
returned in the next `find_route` call, but it does so without any
checking of what was *requested* for the call. This makes it a
somewhat dubious test utility as it very helpfully ensures we
ignore errors in the routes we're looking for.
Instead, we require users of `TestRouter` pass a `RouteParameters`
to `expect_find_route`, which we compare against the requested
parameters passed to `find_route`.
`PaymentParams` is all about the parameters for a payment, i.e. the
parameters which are static across all the paths of a paymet.
`RouteParameters` is about the information specific to a given
`Route` (i.e. a set of paths, among multiple potential sets of
paths for a payment). The CLTV delta thus doesn't belong in
`RouterParameters` but instead in `PaymentParameters`.
Worse, because `RouteParameters` is built from the information in
the last hops of a `Route`, when we deliberately inflate the CLTV
delta in path-finding, retries of the payment will have the final
CLTV delta double-inflated as it inflates starting from the final
CLTV delta used in the last attempt.
By moving the CLTV delta to `PaymentParameters` we avoid this
issue, leaving only the sought amount in the `RouteParameters`.
Adds two new payment `Method`s for identifying payments with custom
`min_final_cltv_expiry_delta` as payments with LDK or user payment
hashes.
The `min_final_cltv_expiry_delta` value is packed into the first 2
bytes of the expiry timestamp in the payment secret metadata.
This is purely a refactor that does not change the InitFeatures
advertised by a ChannelManager. This allows users to configure which
features should be advertised based on the values of `UserConfig`. While
there aren't any existing features currently leveraging this behavior,
it will be used by the upcoming anchors_zero_fee_htlc_tx feature.
The UserConfig dependency on provided_init_features caused most
callsites of the main test methods responsible for opening channels to
be updated. This commit foregos that completely by no longer requiring
the InitFeatures of each side to be provided to these methods. The
methods already require a reference to each node's ChannelManager to
open the channel, so we use that same reference to obtain their
InitFeatures. A way to override such features was required for some
tests, so a new `override_init_features` config option now exists on
the test harness.
This change follows the rationale of commit 62236c7 and addresses the
last remaining redundant local commitment broadcast.
There's no need to broadcast our local commitment transaction if we've
already seen a confirmed one as it'll be immediately rejected as a
duplicate/conflict.
This will also help prevent dispatching spurious events for bumping
commitment and HTLC transactions through anchor outputs since the
dispatch for said events follows the same flow as our usual commitment
broadcast.
