6 Commits (8d066f1f4266e884ee836448214ffd39b4c84987)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Felix Lange	9b93564e21	rlp/rlpgen: RLP encoder code generator (#24251) ... This change adds a code generator tool for creating EncodeRLP method implementations. The generated methods will behave identically to the reflect-based encoder, but run faster because there is no reflection overhead. Package rlp now provides the EncoderBuffer type for incremental encoding. This is used by generated code, but the new methods can also be useful for hand-written encoders. There is also experimental support for generating DecodeRLP, and some new methods have been added to the existing Stream type to support this. Creating decoders with rlpgen is not recommended at this time because the generated methods create very poor error reporting. More detail about package rlp changes: * rlp: externalize struct field processing / validation This adds a new package, rlp/internal/rlpstruct, in preparation for the RLP encoder generator. I think the struct field rules are subtle enough to warrant extracting this into their own package, even though it means that a bunch of adapter code is needed for converting to/from rlpstruct.Type. * rlp: add more decoder methods (for rlpgen) This adds new methods on rlp.Stream: - Uint64, Uint32, Uint16, Uint8, BigInt - ReadBytes for decoding into []byte - MoreDataInList - useful for optional list elements * rlp: expose encoder buffer (for rlpgen) This exposes the internal encoder buffer type for use in EncodeRLP implementations. The new EncoderBuffer type is a sort-of 'opaque handle' for a pointer to encBuffer. It is implemented this way to ensure the global encBuffer pool is handled correctly.	3 years ago
Felix Lange	96fb839133	rlp: improve nil pointer handling (#20064) ... * 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.	5 years ago
Felix Lange	bfbcfbe4a9	all: fix license headers one more time ... I forgot to update one instance of "go-ethereum" in commit 3f047be5a.	9 years ago
Felix Lange	3f047be5aa	all: update license headers to distiguish GPL/LGPL ... All code outside of cmd/ is licensed as LGPL. The headers now reflect this by calling the whole work "the go-ethereum library".	9 years ago
Felix Lange	ea54283b30	all: update license information	9 years ago
Felix Lange	552f5b2693	rlp: add functions for encoding ... 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.	10 years ago