// Copyright 2016 The go-ethereum Authors // This file is part of the go-ethereum library. // // The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License // along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see . // Contains the Whisper protocol Topic element. package whisperv5 import ( "fmt" "strings" "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common" ) // 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 TopicType [TopicLength]byte func BytesToTopic(b []byte) (t TopicType) { sz := TopicLength if x := len(b); x < TopicLength { sz = x } for i := 0; i < sz; i++ { t[i] = b[i] } return t } // String converts a topic byte array to a string representation. func (topic *TopicType) String() string { return string(common.ToHex(topic[:])) } // UnmarshalJSON parses a hex representation to a topic. func (t *TopicType) UnmarshalJSON(input []byte) error { length := len(input) if length >= 2 && input[0] == '"' && input[length-1] == '"' { input = input[1 : length-1] } // strip "0x" for length check if len(input) > 1 && strings.ToLower(string(input[:2])) == "0x" { input = input[2:] } // validate the length of the input if len(input) != TopicLength*2 { return fmt.Errorf("unmarshalJSON failed: topic must be exactly %d bytes", TopicLength) } b := common.FromHex(string(input)) if b == nil { return fmt.Errorf("unmarshalJSON failed: wrong topic format") } *t = BytesToTopic(b) return nil }