+ /// Send a spontaneous payment, which is a payment that does not require the recipient to have
+ /// generated an invoice. Optionally, you may specify the preimage. If you do choose to specify
+ /// the preimage, it must be a cryptographically secure random value that no intermediate node
+ /// would be able to guess -- otherwise, an intermediate node may claim the payment and it will
+ /// never reach the recipient.
+ ///
+ /// Similar to regular payments, you MUST NOT reuse a `payment_preimage` value. See
+ /// [`send_payment`] for more information about the risks of duplicate preimage usage.
+ ///
+ /// [`send_payment`]: Self::send_payment
+ pub fn send_spontaneous_payment(&self, route: &Route, payment_preimage: Option<PaymentPreimage>) -> Result<PaymentHash, PaymentSendFailure> {
+ let preimage = match payment_preimage {
+ Some(p) => p,
+ None => PaymentPreimage(self.keys_manager.get_secure_random_bytes()),
+ };
+ let payment_hash = PaymentHash(Sha256::hash(&preimage.0).into_inner());
+ match self.send_payment_internal(route, payment_hash, &None, Some(preimage)) {
+ Ok(()) => Ok(payment_hash),
+ Err(e) => Err(e)
+ }
+ }
+