lightning-help -- Command to return all information about RPC commands.

SYNOPSIS

help [command]

DESCRIPTION

The help is a RPC command which is possible consult all information about the RPC commands, or a specific command if command is given.

Note that the lightning-cli(1) tool will prefer to list a man page when a specific command is specified, and will only return the JSON if the man page is not found.

• command (string, optional): Command to get information about.

RETURN VALUE

On success, an object is returned, containing:

• help (array of objects):
  • command (string): The command.
  • category (string): The category for this command (useful for grouping).
  • description (string): A one-line description of the purpose of this command.
  • verbose (string): A full description of this command (including whether it's deprecated).
• format-hint (string, optional) (always "simple"): Prints the help in human-readable flat form.

ERRORS

On failure, one of the following error codes may be returned:

• -32602: Error in given parameters.

AUTHOR

Vincenzo Palazzo <[email protected]> wrote the initial version of this man page,
but many others did the hard work of actually implementing this rpc command.

RESOURCES

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

lightning-cli help -k "command"="pay"

{
  "id": "example:help#1",
  "method": "help",
  "params": {
    "command": "pay"
  }
}

{
  "help": [
    {
      "command": "pay bolt11 [amount_msat] [label] [riskfactor] [maxfeepercent] [retry_for] [maxdelay] [exemptfee] [localinvreqid] [exclude] [maxfee] [description] [dev_use_shadow]",
      "category": "plugin",
      "description": "Send payment specified by {bolt11}",
      "verbose": "Attempt to pay the {bolt11} invoice."
    }
  ],
  "format-hint": "simple"
}

lightning-cli help -k "command"="dev"

{
  "id": "example:help#2",
  "method": "help",
  "params": {
    "command": "dev"
  }
}

{
  "help": [
    {
      "command": "dev subcommand=crash|rhash|slowcmd",
      "category": "developer",
      "description": "Developer command test multiplexer",
      "verbose": "dev rhash {secret}\n\tShow SHA256 of {secret}\ndev crash\n\tCrash lightningd by calling fatal()\ndev slowcmd {msec}\n\tTorture test for slow commands, optional {msec}\n"
    }
  ],
  "format-hint": "simple"
}