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Tonic LND client

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Rust implementation of LND RPC client using async gRPC library tonic.

About

Warning: this crate is in early development and may have unknown problems! Review it before using with mainnet funds!

This crate supports Lightning and WalletKit RPC APIs from LND v0.15.4-beta

This crate implements LND GRPC using tonic and prost. Apart from being up-to-date at the time of writing (:D) it also allows async usage. It contains vendored *.proto files so LND source code is not required but accepts an environment variable LND_REPO_DIR which overrides the vendored *.proto files. This can be used to test new features in non-released lnd. (Actually, the motivating project using this library was that case. :))

Usage

There's no setup needed beyond adding the crate to your Cargo.toml. If you need to change the *.proto files from which the client is generated, set the environment variable LND_REPO_DIR to a directory with cloned lnd during build.

Here's an example of retrieving information from LND ([getinfo](https://api.lightning.community/#getinfo) call). You can find the same example in crate root for your convenience.

// This program accepts three arguments: address, cert file, macaroon file
// The address must start with `https://`!

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let mut args = std::env::args_os();
    args.next().expect("not even zeroth arg given");
    let address = args.next().expect("missing arguments: address, cert file, macaroon file");
    let cert_file = args.next().expect("missing arguments: cert file, macaroon file");
    let macaroon_file = args.next().expect("missing argument: macaroon file");
    let address = address.into_string().expect("address is not UTF-8");

    // Connecting to LND requires only address, cert file, and macaroon file
    let mut client = tonic_lnd::connect(address, cert_file, macaroon_file)
        .await
        .expect("failed to connect");

    let info = client
        .lightning()
        // All calls require at least empty parameter
        .get_info(tonic_lnd::lnrpc::GetInfoRequest {})
        .await
        .expect("failed to get info");

    // We only print it here, note that in real-life code you may want to call `.into_inner()` on
    // the response to get the message.
    println!("{:#?}", info);
}

MSRV

1.48.0

However some dependencies may need to be downgraded using cargo update -p <package> --precise <version>. Cargo-msrv.lock is included for reference - it is the lock file used to test the crate and contains known working versions of dependencies.

License

MITNFA

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