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As part of being an async recipient, we need to support interactively building an offer and static invoice with an always-online node that will serve static invoices on our behalf. Add a config field containing blinded message paths that async recipients can use to request blinded paths that will be included in their offer. Payers will forward invoice requests over the paths returned by the server, and receive a static invoice in response if the recipient is offline.
Because async recipients are not online to respond to invoice requests, the plan is for another node on the network that is always-online to serve static invoices on their behalf. The protocol is as follows: - Recipient is configured with blinded message paths to reach the static invoice server - On startup, recipient requests blinded message paths for inclusion in their offer from the static invoice server over the configured paths - Server replies with offer paths for the recipient - Recipient builds their offer using these paths and the corresponding static invoice and replies with the invoice - Server persists the invoice and confirms that they've persisted it, causing the recipient to cache the interactively built offer for use At pay-time, the payer sends an invoice request to the static invoice server, who replies with the static invoice after forwarding the invreq to the recipient (to give them a chance to provide a fresh invoice in case they're online). Here we add the requisite trait methods and onion messages to support this protocol. An alterate design could be for the async recipient to publish static invoices directly without a preceding offer, e.g. on their website. Some drawbacks of this design include: 1) No fallback to regular BOLT 12 in the case that the recipient happens to be online at pay-time. Falling back to regular BOLT 12 allows the recipient to provide a fresh invoice and regain the proof-of-payment property 2) Static invoices don't fit in a QR code 3) No automatic rotation of the static invoice, which is useful in the case that payment paths become outdated due to changing fees, etc
In future commits, as part of being an async recipient, we will interactively build offers and static invoices with an always-online node that will serve static invoices on our behalf. Once an offer is built and the static invoice is confirmed as persisted by the server, we will use the new offer cache added here to save the invoice metadata and the offer in ChannelManager, though the OffersMessageFlow is responsible for keeping the cache updated. We want to cache and persist these offers so we always have them at the ready, we don't want to begin the process of interactively building an offer the moment it is needed. The offers are likely to be long-lived so caching them avoids having to keep interactively rebuilding them after every restart.
As an async recipient, we need to interactively build static invoices that an always-online node will serve to payers on our behalf. At the start of this process, we send a requests for paths to include in our offers to the always-online node on startup and refresh the cached offers when they expire.
As an async recipient, we need to interactively build a static invoice that an always-online node will serve to payers on our behalf. As part of this process, the static invoice server sends us blinded message paths to include in our offer so they'll receive invoice requests from senders trying to pay us while we're offline. On receipt of these paths, create an offer and static invoice and send the invoice back to the server so they can provide the invoice to payers.
As an async recipient, we need to interactively build a static invoice that an always-online node will serve on our behalf. Once this invoice is built and persisted by the static invoice server, they will send us a confirmation onion message. At this time, cache the corresponding offer and mark it as ready to receive async payments.
As an async recipient, we need to interactively build offers and corresponding static invoices, the latter of which an always-online node will serve to payers on our behalf. Offers may be very long-lived and have a longer expiration than their corresponding static invoice. Therefore, persist a fresh invoice with the static invoice server when the current invoice gets close to expiration.
Over the past several commits we've implemented interactively building an async receive offer with a static invoice server that will service invoice requests on our behalf as an async recipient. Here we add an API to retrieve the resulting offers so we can receive payments when we're offline.
In upcoming commits, we need to check whether a static invoice or its underlying offer is expired in no-std builds. Here we expose the methods to do so. The methods could instead be kept private to the crate, but they seem potentially useful.
As part of serving static invoices to payers on behalf of often-offline recipients, these recipients need a way to contact the static invoice server to retrieve blinded paths to include in their offers. Add a utility to create blinded paths for this purpose as a static invoice server. The recipient will be configured with the resulting paths and use them to request offer paths on startup.
As part of serving static invoices to payers on behalf of often-offline recipients, we need to provide the async recipient with blinded message paths to include in their offers. Support responding to inbound requests for offer paths from async recipients.
As part of serving static invoices to payers on behalf of often-offline recipients, the recipient will send us the final static invoice once it's done being interactively built. We will then persist this invoice and confirm to them that the corresponding offer is ready to be used for async payments. Surface an event once the invoice is received and expose an API to tell the recipient that it's ready for payments.
Here we implement serving static invoices to payers on behalf of often-offline recipients. These recipients previously encoded blinded paths terminating at our node in their offer, so we receive invoice requests on their behalf. Handle those inbound invreqs by retrieving a static invoice we previously persisted on behalf of the payee, and forward it to the payer as a reply to their invreq.
We were manually creating the static invoice in tests, but now we can use the static invoice server protocol to interactively build the invoice.
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| // Reload the recipient node, now configured with blinded paths to reach the static invoice | |||
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| macro_rules! reload_payee_with_async_receive_cfg { | |||
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As part of supporting async payments, we want to support serving static invoices on behalf of an often-offline payee, in response to invoice requests from payers.
See this doc for more details on the protocol. Here we implement the server-side of the linked protocol.
Based on #3618