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* rlp: improve nil pointer handling (#20064)Felix Lange2019-09-131-83/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * rlp: improve nil pointer handling In both encoder and decoder, the rules for encoding nil pointers were a bit hard to understand, and didn't leave much choice. Since RLP allows two empty values (empty list, empty string), any protocol built on RLP must choose either of these values to represent the null value in a certain context. This change adds choice in the form of two new struct tags, "nilString" and "nilList". These can be used to specify how a nil pointer value is encoded. The "nil" tag still exists, but its implementation is now explicit and defines exactly how nil pointers are handled in a single place. Another important change in this commit is how nil pointers and the Encoder interface interact. The EncodeRLP method was previously called even on nil values, which was supposed to give users a choice of how their value would be handled when nil. It turns out this is a stupid idea. If you create a network protocol containing an object defined in another package, it's better to be able to say that the object should be a list or string when nil in the definition of the protocol message rather than defining the encoding of nil on the object itself. As of this commit, the encoding rules for pointers now take precedence over the Encoder interface rule. I think the "nil" tag will work fine for most cases. For special kinds of objects which are a struct in Go but strings in RLP, code using the object can specify the desired encoding of nil using the "nilString" and "nilList" tags. * rlp: propagate struct field type errors If a struct contained fields of undecodable type, the encoder and decoder would panic instead of returning an error. Fix this by propagating type errors in makeStruct{Writer,Decoder} and add a test.
* rlp: fixes for two corner cases and documentation (#19527)Felix Lange2019-05-141-13/+15
| | | | | | | | | | These changes fix two corner cases related to internal handling of types in package rlp: The "tail" struct tag can only be applied to the last field. The check for this was wrong and didn't allow for private fields after the field with the tag. Unsupported types (e.g. structs containing int) which implement either the Encoder or Decoder interface but not both couldn't be encoded/decoded. Also fixes #19367
* rlp: fix some golint warnings (#16659)kiel barry2018-05-081-12/+9
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* rlp, trie, contracts, compression, consensus: improve comments (#14580)S. Matthew English2017-06-121-2/+2
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* all: fix go vet warningsFelix Lange2016-04-151-2/+0
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* rlp: add "tail" struct tagFelix Lange2016-02-191-5/+6
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* rlp: move ListSize to raw.goFelix Lange2015-09-111-6/+0
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* rlp: add RawValueFelix Lange2015-09-111-0/+7
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* rlp: fix encReader returning nil buffers to the poolFelix Lange2015-09-111-4/+9
| | | | | | The bug can cause crashes if Read is called after EOF has been returned. No code performs such calls right now, but hitting the bug gets more likely as rlp.EncodeToReader gets used in more places.
* rlp: add support for boolean encoding/decodingPéter Szilágyi2015-08-131-0/+11
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* all: fix license headers one more timeFelix Lange2015-07-241-1/+1
| | | | I forgot to update one instance of "go-ethereum" in commit 3f047be5a.
* all: update license headers to distiguish GPL/LGPLFelix Lange2015-07-231-4/+4
| | | | | All code outside of cmd/ is licensed as LGPL. The headers now reflect this by calling the whole work "the go-ethereum library".
* all: update license informationFelix Lange2015-07-071-0/+16
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* rlp: add ListSizeFelix Lange2015-06-301-0/+6
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* rlp: remove FlatFelix Lange2015-06-301-42/+0
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* rlp: pool encoder allocationsFelix Lange2015-06-301-9/+27
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* rlp: stricter rules for structs and pointersFelix Lange2015-04-171-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | The rules have changed as follows: * When decoding into pointers, empty values no longer produce a nil pointer. This can be overriden for struct fields using the struct tag "nil". * When decoding into structs, the input list must contain an element for each field.
* rlp: encode nil array pointers as empty list or stringFelix Lange2015-03-251-8/+26
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* rlp: add Stream.RawFelix Lange2015-03-211-11/+19
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* rlp: fix encoding of one element strings and byte slicesFelix Lange2015-03-191-7/+14
| | | | | | The encoder was missing a special case for one element strings whose element is below 0x7f. Such strings must be encoded as a single byte without a string header.
* rlp: don't panic for nil *big.IntFelix Lange2015-03-181-1/+6
| | | | All other pointer types can handle nil just fine.
* wipobscuren2015-02-131-1/+21
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| * rlp: fix encoding of arrays with byte element typeFelix Lange2015-02-061-1/+21
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* | rlp: add FlatFelix Lange2015-02-121-0/+49
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* rlp: allow encoding non-empty interface valuesFelix Lange2015-01-161-2/+1
| | | | | | | | 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.
* rlp: add functions for encodingFelix Lange2015-01-151-0/+532
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.