pay_invoice

Requests payment of an invoice.

Use case

The app request a payment from a user by presenting a BOLT-11 invoice to the wallet.

Request

{
    "method": "pay_invoice",
    "params": {
        "invoice": "lnbc50n1..." // bolt11 invoice
    }
}

Response

{
    "result_type": "pay_invoice",
    "result": { 
        "preimage": "0123456789abcdef..." // preimage of the payment
    }
}

Errors

• PAYMENT_FAILED: The payment failed. This may be due to a timeout, exhausting all routes, insufficient capacity or similar.