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Switch to gRPC API

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The HTTP REST API has too many issues, swap out the library with a .proto-typed gRPC implementation.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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wbobeirnecommented, Oct 27, 2018

Thanks for dropping in @Roasbeef! I did look at grpc-web, but I’m hesitant to use it due to the need for a proxy server. It’s already enough of a pain for users to setup lnd, I’d had to ask them to have to setup Envoy as well. While it could be an optional sort of thing, I’d then be stuck supporting both HTTP and gRPC libs, which sounds like a testing nightmare.

I think at the moment, I’m going to keep this on hold until the tech matures a little more. But if you think it’s easier than I’m making it out to be, let me know.

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wbobeirnecommented, Oct 29, 2018

I’ve had the good fortune of being able to talk to Alex this week. While I really like the look of his API, I want to make the onboarding process for the extension as easy as possible, and would hate to ask users to have to setup yet another server on the machine they’re hosting the node on. Going to try to limit myself to what LND (and C-Lightning, in the future) come with out-of-the-box.

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