lnwire: use write buffer in Encode methods

This commit changes the WriteElement and WriteElements methods to take a
write buffer instead of io.Writer. The corresponding Encode methods are
changed to use the write buffer.

lnwire/ping.go

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package lnwire
 
-import "io"
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"io"
+)
 
 // PingPayload is a set of opaque bytes used to pad out a ping message.
 type PingPayload []byte
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ func (p *Ping) Decode(r io.Reader, pver uint32) error {
 // protocol version specified.
 //
 // This is part of the lnwire.Message interface.
-func (p *Ping) Encode(w io.Writer, pver uint32) error {
+func (p *Ping) Encode(w *bytes.Buffer, pver uint32) error {
 	return WriteElements(w,
 		p.NumPongBytes,
 		p.PaddingBytes)