path: root/whisper/topic.go

// Contains the Whisper protocol Topic element. For formal details please see
// the specs at https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Whisper-PoC-1-Protocol-Spec#topics.

package whisper

import "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto"

// 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 Topic [4]byte

// NewTopic creates a topic from the 4 byte prefix of the SHA3 hash of the data.
func NewTopic(data []byte) Topic {
    prefix := [4]byte{}
    copy(prefix[:], crypto.Sha3(data)[:4])
    return Topic(prefix)
}

// NewTopics creates a list of topics from a list of binary data elements, by
// iteratively calling NewTopic on each of them.
func NewTopics(data ...[]byte) []Topic {
    topics := make([]Topic, len(data))
    for i, element := range data {
        topics[i] = NewTopic(element)
    }
    return topics
}

// NewTopicFromString creates a topic using the binary data contents of the
// specified string.
func NewTopicFromString(data string) Topic {
    return NewTopic([]byte(data))
}

// NewTopicsFromStrings creates a list of topics from a list of textual data
// elements, by iteratively calling NewTopicFromString on each of them.
func NewTopicsFromStrings(data ...string) []Topic {
    topics := make([]Topic, len(data))
    for i, element := range data {
        topics[i] = NewTopicFromString(element)
    }
    return topics
}

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

// TopicSet represents a hash set to check if a topic exists or not.
type topicSet map[string]struct{}

// NewTopicSet creates a topic hash set from a slice of topics.
func newTopicSet(topics []Topic) topicSet {
    set := make(map[string]struct{})
    for _, topic := range topics {
        set[topic.String()] = struct{}{}
    }
    return topicSet(set)
}