lightning-bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid -- Command to change the description for events with {payment_id} after they're made

SYNOPSIS

bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid payment_id description

DESCRIPTION

The bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid RPC command updates all chain and channel events that match the {payment_id} with the provided {description}

• payment_id (string): The payment hash (payment_id) to update the description for.
• description (string): The description to update to

RETURN VALUE

On success, an object containing updated is returned. It is an array of objects, where each object contains:

• account (string): The account name. If the account is a channel, the channel_id.
• type (string) (one of "chain", "channel"): Coin movement type.
• tag (string): Description of movement.
• credit_msat (msat): Amount credited.
• debit_msat (msat): Amount debited.
• currency (string): Human-readable bech32 part for this coin type.
• timestamp (u32): Timestamp this event was recorded by the node. For consolidated events such as onchain_fees, the most recent timestamp.
• description (string): The description of this event

If type is "chain":

• outpoint (string): The txid:outnum for this event.
• blockheight (u32): For chain events, blockheight this occured at.
• origin (string, optional): The account this movement originated from.
• payment_id (hex, optional): Lightning payment identifier. For an htlc, this will be the preimage.
• txid (txid, optional): The txid of the transaction that created this event.

If type is "onchain_fee":

• txid (txid): The txid of the transaction that created this event.

If type is "channel":

• fees_msat (msat, optional): Amount paid in fees.
• is_rebalance (boolean, optional): Is this payment part of a rebalance.
• payment_id (hex, optional): Lightning payment identifier. For an htlc, this will be the preimage.
• part_id (u32, optional): Counter for multi-part payments.

AUTHOR

Lisa Neigut <[email protected]> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO

lightning-bkpr-editdescriptionbyoutpoint(7), lightning-bkpr-listaccountevents(7), lightning-bkpr-listincome(7)

RESOURCES

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

lightning-cli bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid -k "payment_id"="paymentid0000202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202" "description"="edited invoice description from description send some sats l2 to l3"

{
  "id": "example:bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid#1",
  "method": "bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid",
  "params": {
    "payment_id": "paymentid0000202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202",
    "description": "edited invoice description from description send some sats l2 to l3"
  }
}

{
  "updated": [
    {
      "account": "channelid0230000230000230000230000230000230000230000230000230000",
      "type": "channel",
      "tag": "invoice",
      "credit_msat": 500000000,
      "debit_msat": 0,
      "currency": "bcrt",
      "payment_id": "paymentid0000202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202",
      "part_id": 0,
      "timestamp": 1738520000,
      "description": "edited invoice description from description send some sats l2 to l3",
      "is_rebalance": false
    }
  ]
}

lightning-cli bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid -k "payment_id"="c000010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101" "description"="edited invoice description for non existing payment id"

{
  "id": "example:bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid#2",
  "method": "bkpr-editdescriptionbypaymentid",
  "params": {
    "payment_id": "c000010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101",
    "description": "edited invoice description for non existing payment id"
  }
}

{
  "updated": []
}