common: improve documentation comments (#16701)

This commit adds many comments and removes unused code.
It also removes the EmptyHash function, which had some uses
but was silly.
This commit is contained in:
kiel barry
2018-05-29 03:42:21 -07:00
committed by Felix Lange
parent 998f6564b2
commit 84f8c0cc1f
9 changed files with 84 additions and 138 deletions

View File

@ -19,15 +19,20 @@ package common
import "encoding/hex"
// ToHex returns the hex representation of b, prefixed with '0x'.
// For empty slices, the return value is "0x0".
//
// Deprecated: use hexutil.Encode instead.
func ToHex(b []byte) string {
hex := Bytes2Hex(b)
// Prefer output of "0x0" instead of "0x"
if len(hex) == 0 {
hex = "0"
}
return "0x" + hex
}
// FromHex returns the bytes represented by the hexadecimal string s.
// s may be prefixed with "0x".
func FromHex(s string) []byte {
if len(s) > 1 {
if s[0:2] == "0x" || s[0:2] == "0X" {
@ -40,9 +45,7 @@ func FromHex(s string) []byte {
return Hex2Bytes(s)
}
// Copy bytes
//
// Returns an exact copy of the provided bytes
// CopyBytes returns an exact copy of the provided bytes.
func CopyBytes(b []byte) (copiedBytes []byte) {
if b == nil {
return nil
@ -53,14 +56,17 @@ func CopyBytes(b []byte) (copiedBytes []byte) {
return
}
// hasHexPrefix validates str begins with '0x' or '0X'.
func hasHexPrefix(str string) bool {
return len(str) >= 2 && str[0] == '0' && (str[1] == 'x' || str[1] == 'X')
}
// isHexCharacter returns bool of c being a valid hexadecimal.
func isHexCharacter(c byte) bool {
return ('0' <= c && c <= '9') || ('a' <= c && c <= 'f') || ('A' <= c && c <= 'F')
}
// isHex validates whether each byte is valid hexadecimal string.
func isHex(str string) bool {
if len(str)%2 != 0 {
return false
@ -73,16 +79,18 @@ func isHex(str string) bool {
return true
}
// Bytes2Hex returns the hexadecimal encoding of d.
func Bytes2Hex(d []byte) string {
return hex.EncodeToString(d)
}
// Hex2Bytes returns the bytes represented by the hexadecimal string str.
func Hex2Bytes(str string) []byte {
h, _ := hex.DecodeString(str)
return h
}
// Hex2BytesFixed returns bytes of a specified fixed length flen.
func Hex2BytesFixed(str string, flen int) []byte {
h, _ := hex.DecodeString(str)
if len(h) == flen {
@ -96,6 +104,7 @@ func Hex2BytesFixed(str string, flen int) []byte {
return hh
}
// RightPadBytes zero-pads slice to the right up to length l.
func RightPadBytes(slice []byte, l int) []byte {
if l <= len(slice) {
return slice
@ -107,6 +116,7 @@ func RightPadBytes(slice []byte, l int) []byte {
return padded
}
// LeftPadBytes zero-pads slice to the left up to length l.
func LeftPadBytes(slice []byte, l int) []byte {
if l <= len(slice) {
return slice