Notes on payment amount

lnwire/funding_request.go

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ type FundingRequest struct {
 	//which is a payment to the responder
 	//(This can be used to fund the Reserve)
 	//If the responder disagrees, then the funding request fails
+	//THIS VALUE GOES INTO THE RESPONDER'S FUNDING AMOUNT
+	//total requester input value = RequesterFundingAmount + PaymentAmount + "Total Change"
+	//RequesterFundingAmount = "Available Balance" - RequesterReserveAmount
 	PaymentAmount btcutil.Amount
 
 	//Minimum number of confirmations to validate transaction
@@ -169,10 +172,6 @@ func (c *FundingRequest) Validate() error {
 	if c.PaymentAmount < 0 {
 		return fmt.Errorf("This wallet requieres payment to be greater than zero.")
 	}
-	//The payment must be below our own contribution (less reserve kept for ourselves
-	if c.PaymentAmount > c.RequesterFundingAmount-c.RequesterReserveAmount {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Payment too large")
-	}
 
 	//Make sure there's not more than 127 inputs
 	if len(c.Inputs) > 127 {

lnwire/funding_signaccept.go

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ type FundingSignAccept struct {
 }
 
 func (c *FundingSignAccept) Decode(r io.Reader, pver uint32) error {
-	//ReservationID (0/8)
+	//ReservationID (8)
-	//CommitSig
+	//CommitSig (73)
 	//	First byte length then sig
 	//FundingTXSigs
 	//	First byte is number of FundingTxSigs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ func NewFundingSignAccept() *FundingSignAccept {
 //Serializes the item from the FundingSignAccept struct
 //Writes the data to w
 func (c *FundingSignAccept) Encode(w io.Writer, pver uint32) error {
-	//ReservationID (8)
+	//ReservationID
 	//CommitSig
 	//FundingTxSigs
 	err := writeElements(w,

lnwire/funding_signcomplete.go

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ type FundingSignComplete struct {
 }
 
 func (c *FundingSignComplete) Decode(r io.Reader, pver uint32) error {
-	//ReservationID (0/8)
+	//ReservationID (8)
-	//TxID
+	//TxID (32)
 	//FundingTXSigs
 	//	First byte is number of FundingTxSigs
 	//	Sorted list of the requester's input signatures
@@ -40,9 +40,6 @@ func NewFundingSignComplete() *FundingSignComplete {
 //Serializes the item from the FundingSignComplete struct
 //Writes the data to w
 func (c *FundingSignComplete) Encode(w io.Writer, pver uint32) error {
-	//ReservationID (8)
-	//CommitSig
-	//FundingTxSigs
 	err := writeElements(w,
 		c.ReservationID,
 		c.TxID,

lnwire/lnwire.go

@@ -362,10 +362,10 @@ func readElement(r io.Reader, element interface{}) error {
 			return err
 		}
 		hash, err := wire.NewShaHash(h[:])
-		(*e).PreviousOutPoint.Hash = *hash
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
+		(*e).PreviousOutPoint.Hash = *hash
 		//Index
 		var idxBytes [4]byte
 		_, err = io.ReadFull(r, idxBytes[:])