rlp: add functions for encoding

I'm reasonably confident that the encoding matches the output of
ethutil.Encode for values that it supports. Some of the tests have been
adpated from the Ethereum testing repository.

There are still TODOs in the code.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/rlp/decode.go b/rlp/decode.go
index a2bd04285..972e662c2 100644
--- a/rlp/decode.go
+++ b/rlp/decode.go
@@ -329,15 +329,9 @@ type field struct {
 }
 
 func makeStructDecoder(typ reflect.Type) (decoder, error) {
-	var fields []field
-	for i := 0; i < typ.NumField(); i++ {
-		if f := typ.Field(i); f.PkgPath == "" { // exported
-			info, err := cachedTypeInfo1(f.Type)
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
-			fields = append(fields, field{i, info})
-		}
+	fields, err := structFields(typ)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	dec := func(s *Stream, val reflect.Value) (err error) {
 		if _, err = s.List(); err != nil {