THIS PLUGIN IS MERGED INTO CLN NOW AND WILL BE SHIPPED WITH v25.02+

clnrest-rs

A rust rewrite of clnrest

• Installation
• Building
• Thanks

Installation

There is two ways you can do this, either edit the config or switch out the plugin file:

• Either replace /usr/local/libexec/c-lightning/plugins/clnrest/clnrest (can be different path depending on your OS) with the binary from this repo
• Or edit the config:

disable-plugin=clnrest
plugin=/path/to/clnrest-rs

Release binaries for

• x86_64-linux
• armv7-linux (Raspberry Pi 32bit)
• aarch64-linux (Raspberry Pi 64bit)

can be found on the release page. If you are unsure about your architecture you can run uname -m.

They require glibc>=2.31, which you can check with ldd --version.

Building

You can build the plugin yourself instead of using the release binaries. First clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/daywalker90/clnrest-rs.git

Install a recent rust version (rustup is recommended) and in the clnrest-rs folder run:

cargo build --release

After that the binary will be here: target/release/clnrest-rs

Note: Release binaries are built using cross and the optimized profile.

Options

These work the same as with the python implementation:

Required options

• clnrest-port: REST server port to listen on

Optional options

• clnrest-certs: Path for certificates (for https), if you have your own certificates, otherwise clnrest will generate self-signed certs in your lightning-dir
• clnrest-protocol: REST server protocol (https or http), defaults to https
• clnrest-host: REST server host, defaults to 127.0.0.1
• clnrest-cors-origins:Cross origin resource sharing origins, defaults to *
• clnrest-csp: Content security policy (CSP) for the server, defaults to default-src 'self'; font-src 'self'; img-src 'self' data:; frame-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline';
• clnrest-swagger-root: Root path for Swagger UI, defaults to /

Thanks

Thank you to the original author of clnrest Shahana