LIGHTNING-INJECTONIONMESSAGE(7)

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version 26.06.9 · 2 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ LIGHTNING-INJECTONIONMESSAGE(7) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the lightning-injectonionmessage page 💅 yes the manual name is in the title, we're fancy like that.

🎀 NAME 🎀

injectonionmessage — send an onion message, as if we'd just received it 🧅✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

injectonionmessage path_key message

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Command added in v24.11. periodt.

The injectonionmessage RPC command causes the node to receive an onion message, similar to the way it would receive one from a peer. So like… you're basically sliding your node a DM and being like "hey, pretend a peer sent you this" 🙈 The onion packet is unwrapped, then handled normally: either received locally, or forwarded to the next peer.

NOTE: injectonionmessage was actually introduced (but not documented) in v24.08, with a different API. no cap, she was out here living her life undocumented for a whole release 😭

So the two things it wants from you:

  • path_key (pubkey) — the point that the local node can use to decode the message 🔑
  • message (hex) — hex-encoded blob, less than 65536 bytes long, containing the message. See to BOLT 04 for further details. iykyk 📜

💖 RETURN VALUE 💖

On success, an empty object is returned. iconic. she gives you {} and nothing else 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rusty Russell rusty@rustcorp.com.au is mainly responsible. legend behaviour, fr fr 🌟

🌈 RESOURCES 🌈

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning — go be nosy, bestie 💻💜

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Example 1: ✨

Request:

$ lightning-cli injectonionmessage -k "message"="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" "path_key"="03ccf3faa19e8d124f27d495e3359f4002a6622b9a02df9a51b609826d354cda52"

And the JSON form of that same request, because she's thorough:

{
  "id": "example:injectonionmessage#1",
  "method": "injectonionmessage",
  "params": {
    "message": "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",
    "path_key": "03ccf3faa19e8d124f27d495e3359f4002a6622b9a02df9a51b609826d354cda52"
  }
}

Response:

{}

look at her go. empty object, zero notes, absolute queen 💅💖

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🦋 this was Core Lightning v26.06.9, LIGHTNING-INJECTONIONMESSAGE(7) — mwah, go inject some onion messages responsibly 🧅✨🌷

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