rlp: allow encoding non-empty interface values

This needs to be supported because []someInterface does occur sometimes.

Funny enough, the fix involves changes to the decoder. makeDecoder
cannot return an error for non-empty interfaces anymore because the type
cache builds both decoder and writer. Do the check at 'runtime' instead.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rlp/decode_test.go b/rlp/decode_test.go
index 9142ef56d..9f66840b1 100644
--- a/rlp/decode_test.go
+++ b/rlp/decode_test.go
@@ -325,6 +325,11 @@ var decodeTests = []decodeTest{
 	{input: "850505050505", ptr: new(interface{}), value: []byte{5, 5, 5, 5, 5}},
 	{input: "C0", ptr: new(interface{}), value: []interface{}{}},
 	{input: "C50183040404", ptr: new(interface{}), value: []interface{}{[]byte{1}, []byte{4, 4, 4}}},
+	{
+		input: "C3010203",
+		ptr:   new([]io.Reader),
+		error: "rlp: type io.Reader is not RLP-serializable",
+	},
 }
 
 func uintp(i uint) *uint { return &i }