lightning-listdatastore -- Command for listing (plugin) data

SYNOPSIS

listdatastore [key]

DESCRIPTION

The listdatastore RPC command allows plugins to fetch data which was stored in the Core Lightning database.

• key (one of, optional):
  • (array of strings): All immediate children of the key (or root children) are returned.
    Using the first element of the key as the plugin name (e.g. [ 'summary' ]) is recommended.
    An array of values to form a hierarchy (though a single value is treated as a one-element array).
    • (string, optional)
  • (string)

RETURN VALUE

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

• key (array of strings):
  • (string, optional): Part of the key added to the datastore.
• generation (u64, optional): The number of times this has been updated.
• hex (hex, optional): The hex data from the datastore.
• string (string, optional): The data as a string, if it's valid utf-8.

ERRORS

The following error codes may occur:

• -32602: invalid parameters.

AUTHOR

Rusty Russell <[email protected]> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO

lightning-datastore(7), lightning-deldatastore(7), lightning-datastoreusage(7)

RESOURCES

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

lightning-cli listdatastore -k "key"='["test"]'

{
  "id": "example:listdatastore#1",
  "method": "listdatastore",
  "params": {
    "key": [
      "test"
    ]
  }
}

{
  "datastore": [
    {
      "key": [
        "test",
        "name"
      ],
      "generation": 0,
      "hex": "736176696e67206461746120746f207468652073746f7265",
      "string": "saving data to the store"
    }
  ]
}

lightning-cli listdatastore -k "key"="otherkey"

{
  "id": "example:listdatastore#2",
  "method": "listdatastore",
  "params": {
    "key": "otherkey"
  }
}

{
  "datastore": [
    {
      "key": [
        "otherkey"
      ],
      "generation": 1,
      "hex": "666f6f626172",
      "string": "foobar"
    }
  ]
}