''' Onionr - Private P2P Communication Return a useful tuple of (metadata (header), meta, and data) by accepting raw block data ''' ''' This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . ''' import json def get_block_metadata_from_data(block_data): ''' accepts block contents as string, returns a tuple of metadata, meta (meta being internal metadata, which will be returned as an encrypted base64 string if it is encrypted, dict if not). ''' meta = {} metadata = {} data = block_data try: block_data = block_data.encode() except AttributeError: pass try: metadata = json.loads(block_data[:block_data.find(b'\n')].decode()) except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: pass else: data = block_data[block_data.find(b'\n'):].decode() meta = metadata['meta'] return (metadata, meta, data)