The writeElement function provides faster serialization for primitives.
This commit modifies all instances that call writeElement with a
pointer to a primitive or a byte slice to instead use the primitive /
writeVarBytes function so the faster serialization paths are used.
Although it is possible to get the command name for each msg type by
creating an instances of the type and calling the Command method against
it, it's slightly more efficient to simply allows callers to have direct
access to the exported constants.
This is currently really useful for the reject message since callers need
to be able to examine the command type to determine whether or not the
hash field needs to be included.
- Group the new read/writeVarBytes functions together to be consistent
with the existing code
- Modify the comments on the new read/writeVarBytes to be a little more
descriptive and consistent with existing code
- Use "test payload" for field name in the tests for the
read/writeVarBytes functions which is more accurate
- Remove reserved param from NewAlert since there is no point is having
the caller deal with a reserved param
- Various comment tweaks for clarity and consistency
- Use camel case for fuction params for consistency
- Move the NewAlert and NewAlertFromPayload functions after the receiver
definitions for code layout consistency
Closes#11.
* Introduced common methods readVarBytes, writeVarBytes.
* Added type Alert which knows how to deserialize
the serialized payload and also serialize itself back.
* Updated MsgAlert BtcEncode/BtcDecode methods to handle the
new Alert.
* Sane limits are placed on variable length fields like SetCancel
and SetSubVer
