plugeth/trie/encoding.go

// Copyright 2014 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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//
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package trie

import (
	"bytes"
)

func CompactEncode(hexSlice []byte) []byte {
	terminator := 0
	if hexSlice[len(hexSlice)-1] == 16 {
		terminator = 1
	}

	if terminator == 1 {
		hexSlice = hexSlice[:len(hexSlice)-1]
	}

	oddlen := len(hexSlice) % 2
	flags := byte(2*terminator + oddlen)
	if oddlen != 0 {
		hexSlice = append([]byte{flags}, hexSlice...)
	} else {
		hexSlice = append([]byte{flags, 0}, hexSlice...)
	}

	var buff bytes.Buffer
	for i := 0; i < len(hexSlice); i += 2 {
		buff.WriteByte(byte(16*hexSlice[i] + hexSlice[i+1]))
	}

	return buff.Bytes()
}

func CompactDecode(str []byte) []byte {
	base := CompactHexDecode(str)
	base = base[:len(base)-1]
	if base[0] >= 2 {
		base = append(base, 16)
	}
	if base[0]%2 == 1 {
		base = base[1:]
	} else {
		base = base[2:]
	}

	return base
}

func CompactHexDecode(str []byte) []byte {
	var nibbles []byte

	for _, b := range str {
		nibbles = append(nibbles, b/16)
		nibbles = append(nibbles, b%16)
	}
	nibbles = append(nibbles, 16)
	return nibbles
}

// assumes key is odd length
func DecodeCompact(key []byte) []byte {
	var res []byte
	for i := 0; i < len(key)-1; i += 2 {
		v1, v0 := key[i], key[i+1]
		res = append(res, v1*16+v0)
	}
	return res
}