Merge pull request #44 from multiformats/add-method-to-return-codec-names

feat: add method to convert codec names to numbers and back

Author: hacdias

src/index.js

@@ -65,6 +65,28 @@ exports.getCodec = (prefixedData) => {
   return codecName
 }
 
+/**
+ * Get the name of the codec.
+ * @param {number} codec
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+exports.getName = (codec) => {
+  return codeToCodecName[codec.toString(16)]
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the code of the codec
+ * @param {string} name
+ * @returns {number}
+ */
+exports.getNumber = (name) => {
+  const code = codecNameToCodeVarint[name]
+  if (code === undefined) {
+    throw new Error('Codec `' + name + '` not found')
+  }
+  return util.varintBufferDecode(code)[0]
+}
+
 /**
  * Get the code of the prefixed data.
  * @param {Buffer} prefixedData

test/multicodec.spec.js

@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ describe('multicodec', () => {
     expect(code).to.eql([0x1b])
   })
 
+  it('returns the codec name from code', () => {
+    expect(multicodec.getName(144)).to.eql('eth-block')
+    expect(multicodec.getName(112)).to.eql('dag-pb')
+  })
+
+  it('returns the codec number from name', () => {
+    expect(multicodec.getNumber('eth-block')).to.eql(144)
+    expect(multicodec.getNumber('dag-pb')).to.eql(112)
+  })
+
   it('throws error on unknown codec name when getting the code', () => {
     expect(() => {
       multicodec.getCodeVarint('this-codec-doesnt-exist')