hashdb 0.1.2

trait for hash-keyed databases.
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//! Database of byte-slices keyed to their Keccak hash.
extern crate elastic_array;
extern crate ethereum_types;

use std::collections::HashMap;
use elastic_array::ElasticArray128;
use ethereum_types::H256;

/// `HashDB` value type.
pub type DBValue = ElasticArray128<u8>;

/// Trait modelling datastore keyed by a 32-byte Keccak hash.
pub trait HashDB: AsHashDB + Send + Sync {
	/// Get the keys in the database together with number of underlying references.
	fn keys(&self) -> HashMap<H256, i32>;

	/// Look up a given hash into the bytes that hash to it, returning None if the
	/// hash is not known.
	fn get(&self, key: &H256) -> Option<DBValue>;

	/// Check for the existance of a hash-key.
	fn contains(&self, key: &H256) -> bool;

	/// Insert a datum item into the DB and return the datum's hash for a later lookup. Insertions
	/// are counted and the equivalent number of `remove()`s must be performed before the data
	/// is considered dead.
	fn insert(&mut self, value: &[u8]) -> H256;

	/// Like `insert()` , except you provide the key and the data is all moved.
	fn emplace(&mut self, key: H256, value: DBValue);

	/// Remove a datum previously inserted. Insertions can be "owed" such that the same number of `insert()`s may
	/// happen without the data being eventually being inserted into the DB. It can be "owed" more than once.
	fn remove(&mut self, key: &H256);
}

/// Upcast trait.
pub trait AsHashDB {
	/// Perform upcast to HashDB for anything that derives from HashDB.
	fn as_hashdb(&self) -> &HashDB;
	/// Perform mutable upcast to HashDB for anything that derives from HashDB.
	fn as_hashdb_mut(&mut self) -> &mut HashDB;
}

impl<T: HashDB> AsHashDB for T {
	fn as_hashdb(&self) -> &HashDB {
		self
	}
	fn as_hashdb_mut(&mut self) -> &mut HashDB {
		self
	}
}

impl<'a> AsHashDB for &'a mut HashDB {
	fn as_hashdb(&self) -> &HashDB {
		&**self
	}

	fn as_hashdb_mut(&mut self) -> &mut HashDB {
		&mut **self
	}
}