Deprecation Notice

As of September 3, 2019, this library's functionality has been incorporated into ripple-address-codec.

This library is no longer maintained.

x-address-codec

This is a meta-package that exposes an API factory.

• Provide your own hash (create-hash)
• Provide your own crypto (crypto)

A base-x codec is included.

This library is used to encode/decode cryptocurrency address strings to bytes and back.

Supported alphabets:

• ripple
• tipple
• bitcoin
• stellar

API

var apiFactory = require('../');
var createHash = require('create-hash');

var api = apiFactory({
  defaultAlphabet: 'stellar',

  // Bring your own hash function:
  sha256: function(bytes) {
    return createHash('sha256').update(new Buffer(bytes)).digest();
  },

  // x-address-codec adds encode* and decode* methods automatically.
  codecMethods : {
    // public keys
    AccountID : {version: 0x00},
    // secrets
    Seed: {version: 0x21}
  },
});

var buf = new Buffer("00000000000000000000000000000000", 'hex');
// It can encode a Buffer
var encoded = api.encodeSeed(buf);
// It returns Array<Number>
var decoded = api.decodeSeed(encoded);
// It can of course encode an Array<Number> too
var reencoded = api.encodeSeed(decoded)

console.log(encoded);
console.log(reencoded);
// ps6JS7f14BuwFY8Mw6bTtLKWauoUp
// ps6JS7f14BuwFY8Mw6bTtLKWauoUp

console.log(decoded);
// [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]

Example: Encode the value as an XRP Ledger seed

console.log(api.encode(decoded, {alphabet: 'ripple', version: 33}));
// sp6JS7f14BuwFY8Mw6bTtLKWauoUs

Example: Create a codec that uses spaceMan as its prefix

var prefix = api.codecs.stellar.findPrefix(16 /* bytes */, 'spaceMan');
var spacey = api.encode(decoded, {version: prefix});
console.log(spacey);
// spaceMan7qBfYEUBHSWDsZjJHctnNQi2pCTn
console.log(api.decode(spacey, {version: prefix}));
// [ 0, 0, 0, 0,   0, 0, 0, 0,   0, 0, 0, 0,   0, 0, 0, 0 ]

Example: Export and Publish

module.exports = api;

$ npm publish

Example: Exported functionality

console.log(api)
/*
{ Codec: [Function: AddressCodec],
  codecs:
   { bitcoin:
      { alphabet: '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz',
        codec: [Object],
        base: 58 },
     ripple:
      { alphabet: 'rpshnaf39wBUDNEGHJKLM4PQRST7VWXYZ2bcdeCg65jkm8oFqi1tuvAxyz',
        codec: [Object],
        base: 58 },
     tipple:
      { alphabet: 'RPShNAF39wBUDnEGHJKLM4pQrsT7VWXYZ2bcdeCg65jkm8ofqi1tuvaxyz',
        codec: [Object],
        base: 58 },
     stellar:
      { alphabet: 'gsphnaf39wBUDNEGHJKLM4PQRST7VWXYZ2bcdeCr65jkm8oFqi1tuvAxyz',
        codec: [Object],
        base: 58 } },
  decode: [Function: decode],
  encode: [Function: encode],
  decodeAccountID: [Function],
  encodeAccountID: [Function],
  decodeSeed: [Function],
  encodeSeed: [Function] }
*/