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SHA-256 content addressing per SPEC §6.
The content id for a record is sha256(canonical_json(payload)), lower-case
hex, prefixed with the string "sha256:". Because the hash is over the
canonical form (§5), two payloads that are semantically equivalent
(e.g. the same keys in a different order, or a string with an
alternative Unicode normalization form) map to the same id.
Constants§
- HEX_LEN
- Length of the hex digest portion of an id (64 hex chars for SHA-256).
- ID_
PREFIX - Prefix applied to every content id. Parsers use it to disambiguate
future hash algorithms (e.g.
"blake3:") if we ever add them.
Functions§
- content_
id - Compute the content id for a payload.
- is_
valid - True if
sis a syntactically valid content id (sha256:+ 64 lowercase hex).