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common/packages/util/src/compact/toU8a.ts
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// Copyright 2017-2021 @polkadot/util authors & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
import BN from 'bn.js';
import { assert } from '../assert';
import { bnToBn, bnToU8a } from '../bn';
import { u8aConcat } from '../u8a';
const MAX_U8 = new BN(2).pow(new BN(8 - 2)).subn(1);
const MAX_U16 = new BN(2).pow(new BN(16 - 2)).subn(1);
const MAX_U32 = new BN(2).pow(new BN(32 - 2)).subn(1);
/**
* @name compactToU8a
* @description Encodes a number into a compact representation
* @example
* <BR>
*
* ```javascript
* import { compactToU8a } from '@polkadot/util';
*
* console.log(compactToU8a(511, 32)); // Uint8Array([0b11111101, 0b00000111])
* ```
*/
export function compactToU8a (_value: BN | BigInt | number): Uint8Array {
const value = bnToBn(_value);
if (value.lte(MAX_U8)) {
return new Uint8Array([value.toNumber() << 2]);
} else if (value.lte(MAX_U16)) {
return bnToU8a(value.shln(2).addn(0b01), 16, true);
} else if (value.lte(MAX_U32)) {
return bnToU8a(value.shln(2).addn(0b10), 32, true);
}
const u8a = bnToU8a(value);
let length = u8a.length;
// adjust to the minimum number of bytes
while (u8a[length - 1] === 0) {
length--;
}
assert(length >= 4, 'Invalid length, previous checks match anything less than 2^30');
return u8aConcat(
// subtract 4 as minimum (also catered for in decoding)
[((length - 4) << 2) + 0b11],
u8a.subarray(0, length)
);
}