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Flesh out docs on PendingHTLCRouting
Now that `PendingHTLCRouting` is public, its docs should be meaningful to developers not working directly on LDK, and thus needs substantially more information than it previously had. This adds much of that information.
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lightning/src/ln/channelmanager.rs

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// Alternatively, we can fill an outbound HTLC with a HTLCSource::OutboundRoute indicating this is
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// our payment, which we can use to decode errors or inform the user that the payment was sent.
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/// Routing info for an inbound HTLC onion.
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/// Information about where a received HTLC('s onion) has indicated the HTLC should go.
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#[derive(Clone)] // See Channel::revoke_and_ack for why, tl;dr: Rust bug
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pub enum PendingHTLCRouting {
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/// A forwarded HTLC.
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/// An HTLC which should be forwarded on to another node.
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Forward {
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/// BOLT 4 onion packet.
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/// The onion which should be included in the forwarded HTLC, telling the next hop what to
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/// do with the HTLC.
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onion_packet: msgs::OnionPacket,
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/// The SCID from the onion that we should forward to. This could be a real SCID or a fake one
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/// generated using `get_fake_scid` from the scid_utils::fake_scid module.
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/// The short channel ID of the channel which we were instructed to forward this HTLC to.
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///
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/// This could be a real on-chain SCID, an SCID alias, or some other SCID which has meaning
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/// to the receiving node, such as one returned from
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/// [`ChannelManager::get_intercept_scid`] or [`ChannelManager::get_phantom_scid`].
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short_channel_id: u64, // This should be NonZero<u64> eventually when we bump MSRV
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/// Set if this HTLC is being forwarded within a blinded path.
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blinded: Option<BlindedForward>,
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},
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/// An HTLC paid to an invoice (supposedly) generated by us.
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/// At this point, we have not checked that the invoice being paid was actually generated by us,
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/// but rather it's claiming to pay an invoice of ours.
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/// The onion indicates that this is a payment for an invoice (supposedly) generated by us.
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///
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/// Note that at this point, we have not checked that the invoice being paid was actually
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/// generated by us, but rather it's claiming to pay an invoice of ours.
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Receive {
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/// Payment secret and total msat received.
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/// Information about the amount the sender intended to pay and (potential) proof that this
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/// is a payment for an invoice we generated. This proof of payment is is also used for
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/// linking MPP parts of a larger payment.
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payment_data: msgs::FinalOnionHopData,
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/// See [`RecipientOnionFields::payment_metadata`] for more info.
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/// Additional data which we (allegedly) instructed the sender to include in the onion.
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///
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/// For HTLCs received by LDK, this will ultimately be exposed in
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/// [`Event::PaymentClaimable::onion_fields`] as
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/// [`RecipientOnionFields::payment_metadata`].
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payment_metadata: Option<Vec<u8>>,
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/// CLTV expiry of the received HTLC.
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///
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/// Used to track when we should expire pending HTLCs that go unclaimed.
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incoming_cltv_expiry: u32,
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/// Shared secret derived using a phantom node secret key. If this field is Some, the
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/// payment was sent to a phantom node (one hop beyond the current node), but can be
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/// settled by this node.
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/// If the onion had forwarding instructions to one of our phantom node SCIDs, this will
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/// provide the onion shared secret used to decrypt the next level of forwarding
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/// instructions.
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phantom_shared_secret: Option<[u8; 32]>,
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/// See [`RecipientOnionFields::custom_tlvs`] for more info.
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/// Custom TLVs which were set by the sender.
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///
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/// For HTLCs received by LDK, this will ultimately be exposed in
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/// [`Event::PaymentClaimable::onion_fields`] as
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/// [`RecipientOnionFields::custom_tlvs`].
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custom_tlvs: Vec<(u64, Vec<u8>)>,
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},
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/// Incoming keysend (sender provided the preimage in a TLV).
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/// The onion indicates that this is for payment to us but which contains the preimage for
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/// claiming included, and is unrelated to any invoice we'd previously generated (aka a
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/// "keysend" or "spontaneous" payment).
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ReceiveKeysend {
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/// This was added in 0.0.116 and will break deserialization on downgrades.
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/// Information about the amount the sender intended to pay and possibly a token to
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/// associate MPP parts of a larger payment.
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///
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/// This will only be filled in if receiving MPP keysend payments is enabled, and it being
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/// present will cause deserialization to fail on versions of LDK prior to 0.0.116.
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payment_data: Option<msgs::FinalOnionHopData>,
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/// Preimage for this onion payment. This preimage is provided by the sender and will be
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/// used to settle the spontaneous payment.
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payment_preimage: PaymentPreimage,
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/// See [`RecipientOnionFields::payment_metadata`] for more info.
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/// Additional data which we (allegedly) instructed the sender to include in the onion.
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///
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/// For HTLCs received by LDK, this will ultimately bubble back up as
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/// [`RecipientOnionFields::payment_metadata`].
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payment_metadata: Option<Vec<u8>>,
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/// CLTV expiry of the received HTLC.
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///
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/// Used to track when we should expire pending HTLCs that go unclaimed.
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incoming_cltv_expiry: u32,
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/// See [`RecipientOnionFields::custom_tlvs`] for more info.
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/// Custom TLVs which were set by the sender.
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///
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/// For HTLCs received by LDK, these will ultimately bubble back up as
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/// [`RecipientOnionFields::custom_tlvs`].
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custom_tlvs: Vec<(u64, Vec<u8>)>,
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},
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}

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