Merge pull request #1914 from MetaMask/history-diff

Move Tx State History to diff-based format

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/app/scripts/lib/tx-state-history-helper.js b/app/scripts/lib/tx-state-history-helper.js
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+++ b/app/scripts/lib/tx-state-history-helper.js
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+const jsonDiffer = require('fast-json-patch')
+const clone = require('clone')
+
+module.exports = {
+  generateHistoryEntry,
+  replayHistory,
+  snapshotFromTxMeta,
+  migrateFromSnapshotsToDiffs,
+}
+
+
+function migrateFromSnapshotsToDiffs(longHistory) {
+  return (
+    longHistory
+    // convert non-initial history entries into diffs
+    .map((entry, index) => {
+      if (index === 0) return entry
+      return generateHistoryEntry(longHistory[index - 1], entry)
+    })
+  )
+}
+
+function generateHistoryEntry(previousState, newState) {
+  return jsonDiffer.compare(previousState, newState)
+}
+
+function replayHistory(shortHistory) {
+  return shortHistory.reduce((val, entry) => jsonDiffer.applyPatch(val, entry).newDocument)
+}
+
+function snapshotFromTxMeta(txMeta) {
+  // create txMeta snapshot for history
+  const snapshot = clone(txMeta)
+  // dont include previous history in this snapshot
+  delete snapshot.history
+  return snapshot
+}
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