package varint import "errors" // PrependLength prepends the varint encoded length of the byte slice to itself. func PrependLength(data []byte) []byte { return append(Pack64(uint64(len(data))), data...) } // GetNextBlock extract the integer from the beginning of the given byte slice and returns the remaining bytes, the extracted integer, and whether there was an error. func GetNextBlock(data []byte) ([]byte, int, error) { l, n, err := Unpack64(data) if err != nil { return nil, 0, err } length := int(l) totalLength := length + n if totalLength > len(data) { return nil, 0, errors.New("varint: not enough data for given block length") } return data[n:totalLength], totalLength, nil } // EncodedSize returns the size required to varint-encode an uint. func EncodedSize(n uint64) (size int) { switch { case n < 128: return 1 case n < 16384: return 2 case n < 2097152: return 3 case n < 268435456: return 4 case n < 34359738368: return 5 case n < 4398046511104: return 6 case n < 562949953421312: return 7 case n < 72057594037927936: return 8 case n < 9223372036854775808: return 9 default: return 10 } }