wip

ethutil/value.go

@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ func (val *Value) Bytes() []byte {
 		return a
 	} else if s, ok := val.Val.(byte); ok {
 		return []byte{s}
+	} else if s, ok := val.Val.(string); ok {
+		return []byte(s)
 	}
 
 	return []byte{}
@@ -196,6 +198,12 @@ func (val *Value) Encode() []byte {
 	return Encode(val.Val)
 }
 
+// Assume that the data we have is encoded
+func (self *Value) Decode() {
+	v, _ := Decode(self.Bytes(), 0)
+	self.Val = v
+}
+
 func NewValueFromBytes(data []byte) *Value {
 	if len(data) != 0 {
 		data, _ := Decode(data, 0)