Adds varIntToNum conversion function

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Daniel Cousens 2014-03-26 18:30:17 +11:00
parent 7820ea7ea0
commit 20599f66c9
2 changed files with 62 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -134,6 +134,28 @@ function numToVarInt(num) {
return [255].concat(numToBytes(num, 8));
}
/**
* Turn an VarInt into an integer
*
* "var_int" is a variable length integer used by Bitcoin's binary format.
*
* Returns { bytes: bytesUsed, number: theNumber }
*/
function varIntToNum(bytes) {
var prefix = bytes[0]
var viBytes =
prefix < 253 ? bytes.slice(0, 1)
: prefix === 253 ? bytes.slice(1, 3)
: prefix === 254 ? bytes.slice(1, 5)
: bytes.slice(1, 9)
return {
bytes: prefix < 253 ? viBytes : bytes.slice(0, viBytes.length + 1),
number: bytesToNum(viBytes)
}
}
function bytesToWords(bytes) {
var words = [];
for (var i = 0, b = 0; i < bytes.length; i++, b += 8) {
@ -176,6 +198,7 @@ module.exports = {
numToBytes: numToBytes,
bytesToNum: bytesToNum,
numToVarInt: numToVarInt,
varIntToNum: varIntToNum,
bytesToWords: bytesToWords,
wordsToBytes: wordsToBytes,
bytesToWordArray: bytesToWordArray,