For the same reason as `get_route`, a slice of objects isn't
practical to map to bindings - the objects in the bindings space
are structs with a pointer and some additional metadata. Thus, to
create a slice of them, we'd need to take ownership of the objects
behind the pointer, place them into a slace, and then restore them
to the pointer.
This would be a lot of memory copying and marshalling, not to
mention wouldn't be thread-safe, which the same function otherwise
would be if we used a slice of references instead of a slice of
objects.
`wire::Type` is only (publicly) used as the `CustomMessage`
associated type in `CustomMessageReader`, where it has additional
trait bounds on `Debug` and `Writeable`. The documentation for
`Type` even mentions that you need to implement `Writeable` because
this is the one place it is used.
To make this more clear, we move the type bounds onto the trait
itself and not on the associated type.
This is also the only practical way to build C bindings for `Type`
as we cannot have a concrete, single, `Type` struct in C which only
optionally implements various subtraits, at least not without
runtime checking of the type bounds.
In 8ffc2d1742, in 0.0.100, we added
a backwards compatibility feature to the reading of `Event`s - if
the type was unknown and odd, we'd simply ignore the event and
treat it as no event. However, we failed to read the
length-prefixed TLV stream when doing so, resulting in us reading
some of the skipped-event data as the next event or other data in
the ChannelManager.
We fix this by reading the varint length prefix written, then
skipping that many bytes when we come across an unknown odd event
type.
When we detect a channel `is_shutdown()` or call on it
`force_shutdown()`, we notify the user with a Event::ChannelClosed
informing about the id and closure reason.
This addresses Val's feedback on the new Route fee- and
amount-calculation methods, including fixing the panic she
identified and cleaning up various docs and comments.
* Added `get_total_fees` method to route,
to calculate all the fees paid accross each path.
* Added `get_total_amount` method to route,
to calculate the total of actual amounts paid in each path.
The network serialization format for all messages was changed some
time ago to include a TLV suffix for all messages, however we never
bothered to implement it as there isn't a lot of use validating a
TLV stream with nothing to do with it. However, messages are
increasingly utilizing the TLV suffix feature, and there are some
compatibility concerns with messages written as a part of other
structs having their format changed (see previous commit).
Thus, here we go ahead and convert most message serialization to a
new macro which includes a TLV suffix after a series of fields,
simplifying several serialization implementations in the process.
Going forward, all lightning messages have a TLV stream suffix,
allowing new fields to be added as needed. In the P2P protocol,
messages have an explicit length, so there is no implied length in
the TLV stream itself. HTLCFailureMsg enum variants have messages
in them, but without a size prefix or any explicit end. Thus, if a
HTLCFailureMsg is read as a part of a ChannelManager, with a TLV
stream at the end, there is no way to differentiate between the end
of the message and the next field(s) in the ChannelManager.
Here we add two new variant values for HTLCFailureMsg variants in
the read path, allowing us to switch to the new values if/when we
add new TLV fields in UpdateFailHTLC or UpdateFailMalformedHTLC so
that older versions can still read the new TLV fields.
In order to avoid significant malloc traffic, messages previously
explicitly stated their serialized length allowing for Vec
preallocation during the message serialization pipeline. This added
some amount of complexity in the serialization code, but did avoid
some realloc() calls.
Instead, here, we drop all the complexity in favor of a fixed 2KiB
buffer for all message serialization. This should not only be
simpler with a similar reduction in realloc() traffic, but also
may reduce heap fragmentation by allocating identically-sized
buffers more often.
330 sat/vbyte, the current value, is not sufficient to ensure a
future segwit script longer than 32 bytes meets the dust limit if
used for a shutdown script. Thus, we can either check the value
on shutdown or we can simply require segwit outputs and require a
dust value of no less than 354 sat/vbyte.
We swap the minimum dust value to 354 sat/vbyte here, requiring
segwit scripts in a future commit.
See https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/issues/905
