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| -rw-r--r-- | whisper/envelope.go | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/whisper/envelope.go b/whisper/envelope.go index 0a817e26e..07762c300 100644 --- a/whisper/envelope.go +++ b/whisper/envelope.go @@ -109,16 +109,17 @@ func (self *Envelope) Hash() common.Hash { return self.hash } -// rlpenv is an Envelope but is not an rlp.Decoder. -// It is used for decoding because we need to -type rlpenv Envelope - // DecodeRLP decodes an Envelope from an RLP data stream. func (self *Envelope) DecodeRLP(s *rlp.Stream) error { raw, err := s.Raw() if err != nil { return err } + // The decoding of Envelope uses the struct fields but also needs + // to compute the hash of the whole RLP-encoded envelope. This + // type has the same structure as Envelope but is not an + // rlp.Decoder so we can reuse the Envelope struct definition. + type rlpenv Envelope if err := rlp.DecodeBytes(raw, (*rlpenv)(self)); err != nil { return err } |