encoding.md

Overview

The encoding is used to build a string hex which will contain the result of the query and the list with the reward/punishment of the Directories We have 3 types of encoding-decoding:

Algorithm based on a manual encoding

The following schema represent an hex string, where

1. sd is the size of the directories payload that can be found at (1,sd+1) char of the hex string (d).
2. d is the hex string that contains the reward/punishment of the Directories. Each hex char will contain 4 Directory scores (Max directories: 16).
3. tr is the Type of the result stored in the data part of the hex string, for example, '0100' is a string result.
4. ps is the size of the hex char used to represent precision.
5. precision is an integer that represents the precision of the floating-point of the number.