hisect

Binary search on a Hypercore.

Pass a comparator. Gets you the index of the first block that matches, or -1 if not found.

npm install hisect

Usage

import hisect from 'hisect'
import Hypercore from 'hypercore'
import b4a from 'b4a'

const core = new Hypercore('./core')
await core.ready()

for (let i = 0; i <= 10000; i++) {
  await core.append(b4a.from(`${i}`))
}

const since = 9999
const index = await hisect(core, since, (since, block) => {
  const value = Number(b4a.toString(block))
  if (value < since) return -1
  if (value > since) return 1
  return 0
})

console.log('Start index:', index)

Once you have the index, you can stream from it or do whatever.

const stream = core.createReadStream({ start: index })
for await (const data of stream) {
  console.log(b4a.toString(data))
}

API

const index = await hisect(core, target, compare)

Does a binary search over the blocks in core. compare is a sync function that receives the block and should return:

• < 0 if the target is after this block

• > 0 if the target is before this block

• 0 if it's a match

Returns the index of the first matching block. If there's no match, returns -1.

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