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# go-multicodec
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Go utility library to provide encoding and decoding of [multicodec](https://github.com/multiformats/multicodec) values.
## Table of Contents
- [Install](#install)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Maintainers](#maintainers)
- [Contribute](#contribute)
- [License](#license)
## Install
`go-multicodec` is a standard Go module which can be installed with:
```sh
go get github.com/wealdtech/go-multicodec
```
## Usage
### Example
```go
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/hex"
"errors"
multicodec "github.com/wealdtech/go-multicodec"
)
func main() {
// Data in this case is an IPFS hash in multihash format with a dag-pb content type
data, err := hex.DecodeString("70122029f2d17be6139079dc48696d1f582a8530eb9805b561eda517e22a892c7e3f1f")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// Add the "ipfs-ns" namespace codec
dataWithCodec, err := multicodec.AddCodec("ipfs-ns", data)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
if !multicodec.IsCodec("ipfs-ns", dataWithCodec) {
panic(errors.New("data does not have correct codec prefix"))
}
// Remove the codec
dataWithoutCodec, _, err := multicodec.RemoveCodec(dataWithCodec)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
if !bytes.Equal(data, dataWithoutCodec) {
panic(errors.New("data mismatch"))
}
}
```
## Maintainers
Jim McDonald: [@mcdee](https://github.com/mcdee).
## Contribute
Contributions welcome. Please check out [the issues](https://github.com/wealdtech/go-multicodec/issues).
## License
[Apache-2.0](LICENSE) © 2019 Weald Technology Trading Ltd