There are quite some things we want to generate from the schema
definitions, both inside and outside of CLN itself. By bundling the
schemas into the library we can make use of the tooling without
running in the CLN source tree. This is in part used to generate some
of the interfaces in Greenlight.
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We build an in-memory model of what the API should look like, which
will later be used to generate a variety of bindings. In this PR we
will use the model to build structs corresponding to the requests and
responses for the various methods.
The JSON-RPC schemas serve as ground-truth, however they are missing a
bit of context: methods, and the request-response matching (as well as
a higher level grouping we'll call a Service). I'm tempted to create a
new document that describes this behavior and we could even generate
the rather repetitive JSON schemas from that document. Furthermore
it'd allow us to add some required metadata such as grpc field
numbering once we generate those bindings.
Changelog-Added: JSON-RPC: A new `msggen` library allows easy generation of language bindings for the JSON-RPC from the JSON schemas
Christian Decker