Module lightning::util

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Some utility modules live here. See individual sub-modules for more info.

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  • Various user-configurable channel limits and settings which ChannelManager applies for you.
  • Error types live here.
  • Generally LDK uses std’s HashMaps, however when building for no-std, LDK uses hashbrown’s HashMaps with the std SipHasher and uses getrandom to opportunistically randomize it, if randomization is available.
  • This module has a map which can be iterated in a deterministic order. See the IndexedMap.
  • Low level invoice utilities.
  • Log traits live here, which are called throughout the library to provide useful information for debugging purposes.
  • Lightning message signing and verification lives here. These tools can be used to sign messages using the node’s secret so receivers are sure that they come from you. You can also use this to verify that a given message comes from a specific node. Furthermore, these tools can be used to sign / verify messages using ephemeral keys not tied to node’s identities.
  • This module contains a simple key-value store trait KVStore that allows one to implement the persistence for ChannelManager, NetworkGraph, and ChannelMonitor all in one place.
  • Utilities for creating and parsing short channel ids.
  • A very simple serialization framework which is used to serialize/deserialize messages as well as ChannelManagers and ChannelMonitors.
  • Some macros that implement Readable/Writeable traits for lightning messages. They also handle serialization and deserialization of TLVs.
  • Utilities for strings.
  • This module contains an OutputSweeper utility that keeps track of SpendableOutputDescriptors, i.e., persists them in a given KVStore and regularly retries sweeping them.
  • Utilities which allow users to block on some future notification from LDK. These are specifically used by ChannelManager to allow waiting until the ChannelManager needs to be re-persisted.