LIGHTNING-FUNDCHANNEL_CANCEL(7)

NAME
lightning-fundchannel_cancel - Command for completing channel establishment

SYNOPSIS
fundchannel_cancel id

DESCRIPTION
fundchannel_cancel is a lower level RPC command. It allows channel funder to cancel a channel before funding broadcast with a connected peer. id is the node id of the remote peer with which to cancel. Note that the funding transaction MUST NOT be broadcast before fundchannel_cancel. Broadcasting transaction before fundchannel_cancel WILL lead to unrecoverable loss of funds. If fundchannel_cancel is called after fundchannel_complete, the remote peer may disconnect when command succeeds. In this case, user need to connect to remote peer again before opening channel.

RETURN VALUE
On success, returns confirmation that the channel establishment has been canceled. On error the returned object will contain code and message properties, with code being one of the following:

    •   -32602: If the given parameters are wrong.

    •   -1: Catchall nonspecific error.

    •   306: Unknown peer id.

AUTHOR
Lisa Neigut <niftynei@gmail.com> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO
lightning-connect(7), lightning-fundchannel(7), lightning-fundchannel_start(7), lightning-fundchannel_complete(7)

RESOURCES
Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning