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SubscribeChannelBackups

SubscribeChannelBackups allows a client to sub-subscribe to the most up to date information concerning the state of all channel backups. Each time a new channel is added, we return the new set of channels, along with a multi-chan backup containing the backup info for all channels. Each time a channel is closed, we send a new update, which contains new new chan back ups, but the updated set of encrypted multi-chan backups with the closed channel(s) removed.

Source: lightning.proto

gRPC

info

This is a server-streaming RPC

rpc SubscribeChannelBackups (ChannelBackupSubscription) returns (stream ChanBackupSnapshot);

REST

HTTP MethodPath
GET /v1/channels/backup/subscribe

Code Samples

const fs = require('fs');
const grpc = require('@grpc/grpc-js');
const protoLoader = require('@grpc/proto-loader');

const GRPC_HOST = 'localhost:10009'
const MACAROON_PATH = 'LND_DIR/data/chain/bitcoin/regtest/admin.macaroon'
const TLS_PATH = 'LND_DIR/tls.cert'

const loaderOptions = {
keepCase: true,
longs: String,
enums: String,
defaults: true,
oneofs: true,
};
const packageDefinition = protoLoader.loadSync('lightning.proto', loaderOptions);
const lnrpc = grpc.loadPackageDefinition(packageDefinition).lnrpc;
process.env.GRPC_SSL_CIPHER_SUITES = 'HIGH+ECDSA';
const tlsCert = fs.readFileSync(TLS_PATH);
const sslCreds = grpc.credentials.createSsl(tlsCert);
const macaroon = fs.readFileSync(MACAROON_PATH).toString('hex');
const macaroonCreds = grpc.credentials.createFromMetadataGenerator(function(args, callback) {
let metadata = new grpc.Metadata();
metadata.add('macaroon', macaroon);
callback(null, metadata);
});
let creds = grpc.credentials.combineChannelCredentials(sslCreds, macaroonCreds);
let client = new lnrpc.Lightning(GRPC_HOST, creds);
let request = {};
let call = client.subscribeChannelBackups(request);
call.on('data', function(response) {
// A response was received from the server.
console.log(response);
});
call.on('status', function(status) {
// The current status of the stream.
});
call.on('end', function() {
// The server has closed the stream.
});
// Console output:
// {
// "single_chan_backups": <ChannelBackups>,
// "multi_chan_backup": <MultiChanBackup>,
// }

Messages

lnrpc.ChannelBackupSubscription

Source: lightning.proto

note

This request has no parameters.

lnrpc.ChanBackupSnapshot

Source: lightning.proto

FieldgRPC TypeREST Type
single_chan_backups
ChannelBackupsobject
multi_chan_backup
MultiChanBackupobject

Nested Messages

lnrpc.ChannelBackups

FieldgRPC TypeREST Type
chan_backups
ChannelBackup[]array

lnrpc.ChannelBackup

FieldgRPC TypeREST Type
chan_point
ChannelPointobject
chan_backup
bytesstring

lnrpc.ChannelPoint

FieldgRPC TypeREST Type
funding_txid_bytes
bytesstring
funding_txid_str
stringstring
output_index
uint32integer

lnrpc.MultiChanBackup

FieldgRPC TypeREST Type
chan_points
ChannelPoint[]array
multi_chan_backup
bytesstring