This is just for testing for now, TLV payload computation will come next. We
stage all the payloads in deserialized form so modifiers can modify them more
easily and serialize them only before actually calling `createonion`.
This is necessary so we can build the absolute locktimes in the next step. For
now just fetch the blockheight on each (sub-)payment, later we can reuse the
root blockheight if it ends up using too much traffic.
A payment is considered finished if it is in a final state (success or
failure) or all its sub-payments are finished. If that's the case we notify
`payment_finished` and bubble up through `payment_child_finished`, eventually
bubbling up to the root, which can then report success of failure back to the
RPC command that initiated the whole process.
This is likely a bit of overkill for this type of functionality, but it is a
nice first use-case of how functionality can be compartmentalized into
modifiers. If makes swapping retry mechanisms in and out really simple.
This should make it easy for JSON-RPC functions and modifiers to get the
associated data for a given modifier name. Useful if a modifier needs to
access its parent's modifier data, or in other functions that need to access
modifier data, e.g., when passing destination pointers into the `param()`
call.
This commit can be reverted/skipped once we have implemented all the logic and
have feature parity with the normal `pay`. It's main purpose is to expose the
unfinished functionality to test it, without completely breaking the existing
`pay` command.
Christian Decker