github.com/vantum/vantum@v0.0.0-20180815184342-fe37d5f7a990/whisper/whisperv6/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 whisperv6 20 21 import ( 22 "github.com/vantum/vantum/common" 23 "github.com/vantum/vantum/common/hexutil" 24 ) 25 26 // TopicType 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 // BytesToTopic converts from the byte array representation of a topic 32 // into the TopicType type. 33 func BytesToTopic(b []byte) (t TopicType) { 34 sz := TopicLength 35 if x := len(b); x < TopicLength { 36 sz = x 37 } 38 for i := 0; i < sz; i++ { 39 t[i] = b[i] 40 } 41 return t 42 } 43 44 // String converts a topic byte array to a string representation. 45 func (t *TopicType) String() string { 46 return common.ToHex(t[:]) 47 } 48 49 // MarshalText returns the hex representation of t. 50 func (t TopicType) MarshalText() ([]byte, error) { 51 return hexutil.Bytes(t[:]).MarshalText() 52 } 53 54 // UnmarshalText parses a hex representation to a topic. 55 func (t *TopicType) UnmarshalText(input []byte) error { 56 return hexutil.UnmarshalFixedText("Topic", input, t[:]) 57 }