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JSON-RPC tunnelled over the lightning protocol. Only one hop though (so you can know the peerid, thanks to cryptography).

Filter is the filter to apply to the returned result (on the server side, to save bandwidth)
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jb55 4mo ago

is the filter the sql stuff? its not clear what this value should be from the docs

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Rusty Russell 4mo ago 💬 2

I'm confused. The filter simply restricts what parts of the JSON are returned. This can save significant bandwidth in some cases (eg listchannels but you just want the features).

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jb55 4mo ago

got it, i just was confused when i saw it for the first time in the commando docs the other day since it wasn’t there when i first implemented lnsocket 3 years ago…

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Rusty Russell 4mo ago

Yes, I added it because without explicit support as a cmdline option you would get client-side filtering, which saves nothing, really.