Merge pull request #27 from Joystream/handle-fix

convert handle string to Bytes

src/joyApi.ts

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export class JoyApi {
  }
 
  async handleIsAlreadyRegistered(handle: string): Promise<boolean> {
- const handleHash = blake2AsHex(handle)
+ const handleHash = blake2AsHex(Buffer.from(handle).toString('hex'))
  const storageSize = await this.api.query.members.memberIdByHandleHash.size(
  handleHash
  )
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ export class JoyApi {
  return this.api.tx.members.giftMembership({
  rootAccount: account,
  controllerAccount: account,
- handle: handle,
+ handle: createType('Bytes', '0x' + Buffer.from(handle).toString('hex')),
  metadata: createType(
  'Bytes',
  '0x' +

src/test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+
+import { blake2AsHex } from '@polkadot/util-crypto'
+
+console.log(blake2AsHex('0xfeed'))
+// console.log(blake2AsHex(Buffer.from('0xfeed'))) // what user intended
+console.log(blake2AsHex('0xada5'))
+// console.log(blake2AsHex(Buffer.from('0xada5'))) // what user intended
+
+console.log(Buffer.from([254, 237]).toString('utf16le'))
+console.log(Buffer.from([254, 237]).toString('utf-8'))
+
+
+console.log(Buffer.from([173, 165]).toString('utf16le'))
+
+
+let str = Buffer.from('A', 'utf16le').toString('utf16le')
+console.log(blake2AsHex(str))
+console.log(blake2AsHex('A'))