github.com/anthdm/go-ethereum@v1.8.4-0.20180412101906-60516c83b011/whisper/whisperv5/topic.go (about) 1 // Copyright 2016 The go-ethereum Authors 2 // This file is part of the go-ethereum library. 3 // 4 // The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 5 // it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by 6 // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 7 // (at your option) any later version. 8 // 9 // The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 10 // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 11 // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 12 // GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. 13 // 14 // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 15 // along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 16 17 // Contains the Whisper protocol Topic element. 18 19 package whisperv5 20 21 import ( 22 "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common" 23 "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common/hexutil" 24 ) 25 26 // Topic represents a cryptographically secure, probabilistic partial 27 // classifications of a message, determined as the first (left) 4 bytes of the 28 // SHA3 hash of some arbitrary data given by the original author of the message. 29 type TopicType [TopicLength]byte 30 31 func BytesToTopic(b []byte) (t TopicType) { 32 sz := TopicLength 33 if x := len(b); x < TopicLength { 34 sz = x 35 } 36 for i := 0; i < sz; i++ { 37 t[i] = b[i] 38 } 39 return t 40 } 41 42 // String converts a topic byte array to a string representation. 43 func (t *TopicType) String() string { 44 return common.ToHex(t[:]) 45 } 46 47 // MarshalText returns the hex representation of t. 48 func (t TopicType) MarshalText() ([]byte, error) { 49 return hexutil.Bytes(t[:]).MarshalText() 50 } 51 52 // UnmarshalText parses a hex representation to a topic. 53 func (t *TopicType) UnmarshalText(input []byte) error { 54 return hexutil.UnmarshalFixedText("Topic", input, t[:]) 55 }