Types
Overview
The Types module implements core object types, such as:
- Address
- Hash
- Header
- lots of helper functions
RLP Encoding / Decoding
Unlike clients such as GETH, the dogechain doesn't use reflection for the encoding.
The preference was to not use reflection because it introduces new problems, such as performance
degradation, and harder scaling.
The Types module provides an easy-to-use interface for RLP marshaling and unmarshalling, using the FastRLP package.
Marshaling is done through the MarshalRLPWith and MarshalRLPTo methods. The analogous methods exist for unmarshalling.
By manually defining these methods, the dogechain doesn't need to use reflection. In rlp_marshal.go, you can find methods for marshaling:
- Bodies
- Blocks
- Headers
- Receipts
- Logs
- Transactions