Address class

This class abstracts away the internals of address encoding and provides a convenient means to both encode and decode information from a bitcoin address.

Bitcoin addresses are a construct which facilitates interoperability between different wallets. I.e. an agreement amongst wallet providers to have a common means of sharing the hashed public key value needed to send someone bitcoin using one of the standard public-key-based transaction types.

The Address does not contain a public key, only a hashed value of a public key which is derived as explained below.

Bitcoin addresses are not part of the consensus rules of bitcoin.

Bitcoin addresses are encoded as follows

• 1st byte - indicates the network type which is either MAINNET or TESTNET
• next 20 bytes - the hash value computed by taking the ripemd160(sha256(PUBLIC_KEY))
• last 4 bytes - a checksum value taken from the first four bytes of sha256(sha256(previous_21_bytes))

Constructors

Address(String address)

Constructs a new Address object

Address.fromBase58(String base58Address)

Constructs a new Address object from a base58-encoded string.

Address.fromCompressedPubKey(List<int> pubkeyBytes, NetworkType networkType)

Constructs a new Address object from a compressed public key value

Address.fromHex(String hexPubKey, NetworkType networkType)

Constructs a new Address object from a public key.

Address.fromPublicKey(SVPublicKey pubKey, NetworkType networkType)

Constructs a new Address object from the public key

Address.fromScript(SVScript script, NetworkType networkType)

Constructs a new P2SH Address object from a script

Properties

address → String

Returns a hash of the Public Key

no setter

addressType → AddressType

Returns the type of "standard transaction" this Address is meant to be used for.

no setter

hashCode → int

The hash code for this object.

no setter, inherited

networkType → NetworkType

Returns the specific Network Type that this Address is compatible with

no setter

networkTypes → List<NetworkType>

Returns a list of network types supported by this address

no setter

pubkeyHash160 → String

An alias for the address property

no setter

runtimeType → Type

A representation of the runtime type of the object.

no setter, inherited

Methods

noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic

Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.

inherited

toBase58() → String

Serialise this address object to a base58-encoded string

toHex() → String

Returns the public key hash ripemd160(sha256(public_key)) encoded as a hexadecimal string

toString() → String

Serialise this address object to a base58-encoded string. This method is an alias for the toBase58() method

override

Operators

operator ==(Object other) → bool

The equality operator.

inherited