lndk/docs/cli_commands.md

Interacting with LNDK server

There are two ways you can connect to the server:

• You can use lndk-cli to connect to a running instance of LNDK and pay an offer.
• Write a gRPC client in the language of your choice.

lndk-cli installation

To use the lndk-cli to pay a BOLT 12 offer, follow these instructions:

• To install lndk-cli: cargo install --bin=lndk-cli --path .
• With the above command, lndk-cli will be installed to ~/.cargo/bin. So make sure ~/.cargo/bin is on your PATH so we can properly run lndk-cli.
• Run lndk-cli -h to make sure it's working. You'll see output similar to:

A cli for interacting with lndk

Usage: lndk-cli [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  decode     Decodes a bech32-encoded offer string into a BOLT 12 offer
  pay-offer  PayOffer pays a BOLT 12 offer, provided as a 'lno'-prefaced offer string
  help       Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -n, --network <NETWORK>              Global variables [default: regtest]          
  -m, --macaroon-path <MACAROON_PATH>           
      --macaroon-hex <MACAROON_HEX>    
  -h, --help                           Print help

lndk-cli commands

Once lndk-cli is installed, you can use it to pay an offer.

Since lndk-cli needs to connect to lnd, you'll need to provide an lnd macaroon to the binary.

If your macaroon is not in the default lnd location, you'll need to specify them manually.

If your macaroon is in the default location, paying an offer looks like:

lndk-cli pay-offer <OFFER_STRING> <AMOUNT_MSATS>

If your macaroon is not in the default location, an example command looks like:

lndk-cli -- --network=mainnet --macaroon-path=/credentials/custom.macaroon pay-offer <OFFER_STRING> <AMOUNT_MSATS>

Or you can pass in the credentials directly with a macaroon string like: lndk-cli -- --network=mainnet --macaroon-hex=<MACAROON_HEX_STR> pay-offer <OFFER_STRING> <AMOUNT_MSATS>

gRPC client example

Another option for interacting with LNDK is to connect to the LNDK server with a gRPC client, which you can do in most languages.

Again, since LNDK needs to connect to LND, you'll need to pass in your LND macaroon to establish a connection. Note that:

• The client must pass in this data via gRPC metadata. You can find an example of this in the Rust client used to connect lndk-cli to the server.