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Utility functions used by the framework modules.

Functions

from_bytes

Native function to deserialize a type T.

Note that this function does not put any constraint on T. If code uses this function to deserialized a linear value, its their responsibility that the data they deserialize is owned.

Function would abort if T has signer in it.

public(friend) fun from_bytes<T>(bytes: vector<u8>): T
Implementation 
public(friend) native fun from_bytes<T>(bytes: vector<u8>): T;

address_from_bytes

public fun address_from_bytes(bytes: vector<u8>): address
Implementation 
public fun address_from_bytes(bytes: vector<u8>): address {
    from_bytes(bytes)
}

Specification

from_bytes

public(friend) fun from_bytes<T>(bytes: vector<u8>): T

High-level Requirements

No.RequirementCriticalityImplementationEnforcement
1 The address input bytes should be exactly 32 bytes long. Low The address_from_bytes function should assert if the length of the input bytes is 32. Verified via address_from_bytes.

Module-level Specification

pragma opaque;
aborts_if [abstract] false;
ensures [abstract] result == spec_from_bytes<T>(bytes);
fun spec_from_bytes<T>(bytes: vector<u8>): T;

address_from_bytes

public fun address_from_bytes(bytes: vector<u8>): address
// This enforces high-level requirement 1:
aborts_if [abstract] len(bytes) != 32;