codec.go

// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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package codec

import (
	"net"
	"strconv"

	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc/shared"
)

type Codec int

// (de)serialization support for rpc interface
type ApiCoder interface {
	// Parse message to request from underlying stream
	ReadRequest() ([]*shared.Request, bool, error)
	// Parse response message from underlying stream
	ReadResponse() (interface{}, error)
	// Read raw message from underlying stream
	Recv() (interface{}, error)
	// Encode response to encoded form in underlying stream
	WriteResponse(interface{}) error
	// Decode single message from data
	Decode([]byte, interface{}) error
	// Encode msg to encoded form
	Encode(msg interface{}) ([]byte, error)
	// close the underlying stream
	Close()
}

// supported codecs
const (
	JSON Codec = iota
	nCodecs
)

var (
	// collection with supported coders
	coders = make([]func(net.Conn) ApiCoder, nCodecs)
)

// create a new coder instance
func (c Codec) New(conn net.Conn) ApiCoder {
	switch c {
	case JSON:
		return NewJsonCoder(conn)
	}

	panic("codec: request for codec #" + strconv.Itoa(int(c)) + " is unavailable")
}