Bitcoin Descriptors

This library parses and validates bitcoin descriptor strings.

Installation

TBD -- this package has not been released to NPM yet.

Usage

Parse bitcoin descriptor strings into a plain Javascript objects:

const {parseBitcoinDescriptor} = require("bitcoin-descriptors");

console.log(parseBitcoinDescriptor("pk(0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798)"));
// ['pk', { inputType: "publicKey", value: "0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798", ...}]

console.log(parseBitcoinDescriptor("wsh(multi(1,xpub661MyMwAqRbcFW31YEwpkMuc5THy2PSt5bDMsktWQcFF8syAmRUapSCGu8ED9W6oDMSgv6Zz8idoc4a6mr8BDzTJY47LJhkJ8UB7WEGuduB/1/0/*,xpub69H7F5d8KSRgmmdJg2KhpAK8SR3DjMwAdkxj3ZuxV27CprR9LgpeyGmXUbC6wb7ERfvrnKZjXoUmmDznezpbZb7ap6r1D3tgFxHmwMkQTPH/0/0/*))"));
// ['wsh',
//   [ 'multi',
//      1,
//     { inputType: "extendedPublicKey", value: "xpub661MyMwAqRbcFW31YEwpkMuc5THy2PSt5bDMsktWQcFF8syAmRUapSCGu8ED9W6oDMSgv6Zz8idoc4a6mr8BDzTJY47LJhkJ8UB7WEGuduB", derivationPath: "/1/0", wildcard: true, ...}
//     { inputType: "extendedPublicKey", value: "xpub69H7F5d8KSRgmmdJg2KhpAK8SR3DjMwAdkxj3ZuxV27CprR9LgpeyGmXUbC6wb7ERfvrnKZjXoUmmDznezpbZb7ap6r1D3tgFxHmwMkQTPH", derivationPath: "/0/0", wildcard: true, ...}
//   ]
// ]

Bad descriptors will throw an error in parseBitcoinDescriptor:

const {parseBitcoinDescriptor} = require("bitcoin-descriptors");

parseBitcoinDescriptor("pk(0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798"); // missinig final ')' in descriptor
// ..."Unable to parse incomplete input"...

If a descriptor parses, can pass the results of parseBitcoinDescriptor to validateBitcoinDescriptor which performs further checks:

const {parseBitcoinDescriptor,validateBitcoinDescriptor} = require("bitcoin-descriptors");
console.log(validateBitcoinDescriptor(parseBitcoinDescriptor("sh(wsh(wpkh(02e493dbf1c10d80f3581e4904930b1404cc6c13900ee0758474fa94abe8c4cd13)))")))
// Cannot nest function "wpkh" within function "wsh".

You can also emit a descriptor from a data structure:

const {emitBitcoinDescriptor} = require("bitcoin-descriptors");

console.log(parseBitcoinDescriptor("pk(0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798)"));
// ]

console.log(emitBitcoinDescriptor(['pk', { value: "0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798"}]))
// pk(0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798)

Developers

This library relies on the excellent nearley parser and moo lexer. See

• The lexer's token definitions
• The parser's original grammar and the compiled grammar, produced by neatleyc.

The following command will re-compile the grammar from its original definition:

$ npm run compile

Each example provided in the bitcoin descriptor spec has been turned into a unit test. Run the full test-suite:

$ npm run test