path: root/whisper/whisperv5/topic.go

// Copyright 2016 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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// Contains the Whisper protocol Topic element.

package whisperv5

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"

    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
)

// Topic represents a cryptographically secure, probabilistic partial
// classifications of a message, determined as the first (left) 4 bytes of the
// SHA3 hash of some arbitrary data given by the original author of the message.
type TopicType [TopicLength]byte

func BytesToTopic(b []byte) (t TopicType) {
    sz := TopicLength
    if x := len(b); x < TopicLength {
        sz = x
    }
    for i := 0; i < sz; i++ {
        t[i] = b[i]
    }
    return t
}

// String converts a topic byte array to a string representation.
func (topic *TopicType) String() string {
    return string(common.ToHex(topic[:]))
}

// UnmarshalJSON parses a hex representation to a topic.
func (t *TopicType) UnmarshalJSON(input []byte) error {
    length := len(input)
    if length >= 2 && input[0] == '"' && input[length-1] == '"' {
        input = input[1 : length-1]
    }
    // strip "0x" for length check
    if len(input) > 1 && strings.ToLower(string(input[:2])) == "0x" {
        input = input[2:]
    }
    // validate the length of the input
    if len(input) != TopicLength*2 {
        return fmt.Errorf("unmarshalJSON failed: topic must be exactly %d bytes", TopicLength)
    }
    b := common.FromHex(string(input))
    if b == nil {
        return fmt.Errorf("unmarshalJSON failed: wrong topic format")
    }
    *t = BytesToTopic(b)
    return nil
}