Allows "hash" and "multihash" tags for multihashes

Closes #15

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
     "esbonio.sphinx.confDir": "${workspaceFolder}\\docs",
-    "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark Modern"
+    "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark+"
 }

0.3.1

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Requirement already satisfied: multiformats-config in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (0.3.1)
+Requirement already satisfied: multiformats in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from multiformats-config) (0.2.1.post7)
+Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=4.6.0 in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from multiformats->multiformats-config) (4.9.0)
+Requirement already satisfied: typing-validation>=1.1.0 in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from multiformats->multiformats-config) (1.1.0)
+Requirement already satisfied: bases>=0.3.0 in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from multiformats->multiformats-config) (0.3.0)

multiformats/multibase/__init__.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 MultibaseStatus = Literal[
     "draft", "final", "reserved", "experimental",
-    "candidate", "default" # legacy values
+    "candidate", "default" # FIXME: deprecated legacy values
 ]
 """
     Literal type of possible values for the :attr:`Multibase.status` property.
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def __repr__(self) -> str:
         return f"Multibase({', '.join(f'{k}={repr(v)}' for k, v in self.to_json().items())})"
 
     @property
-    def _as_tuple(self) -> Tuple[Type["Multibase"], str, str, Literal["draft", "candidate", "default"]]:
+    def _as_tuple(self) -> Tuple[Type["Multibase"], str, str, MultibaseStatus]:
         return (Multibase, self.name, self.code, self.status)
 
     def __hash__(self) -> int:

multiformats/multicodec/__init__.py

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def hexcode(self) -> str:
         return _hexcode(self._code)
 
     @property
-    def status(self) -> Literal["draft", "permanent"]:
+    def status(self) -> MulticodecStatus:
         """ Multicodec status. """
         return self._status
 
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ def __repr__(self) -> str:
         return f"Multicodec({', '.join(f'{k}={repr(v)}' for k, v in self.to_json().items())})"
 
     @property
-    def _as_tuple(self) -> Tuple[Type["Multicodec"], str, str, int, Literal["draft", "permanent"]]:
+    def _as_tuple(self) -> Tuple[Type["Multicodec"], str, str, int, MulticodecStatus]:
         return (Multicodec, self.name, self.tag, self.code, self.status)
 
     def __hash__(self) -> int:

multiformats/multihash/__init__.py

@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ def __new__(cls, codec: Union[str, int, Multicodec]) -> "Multihash":
                 raise MultihashValueError(f"Multicodec named {repr(codec.name)} exists, but is not the one given.")
             codec = existing_codec
         # check that the codec is a multihash multicodec:
-        if codec.tag != "multihash":
-            raise MultihashValueError(f"Multicodec named {repr(codec.name)} exists, but is not a multihash.")
+        if codec.tag not in ("multihash", "hash"):
+            raise MultihashValueError(f"Multicodec named {repr(codec.name)} exists, but is not a hash or multihash.")
         if not raw.exists(codec.name):
             raise MultihashKeyError(f"No implementation for multihash multicodec {repr(codec.name)}.")
         _cache = Multihash._cache
@@ -124,6 +124,14 @@ def codec(self) -> Multicodec:
         """
         return self._codec
 
+    @property
+    def is_cryptographic(self) -> bool:
+        """
+            Whether this is a cryptographic hash or not, based on whether
+            the codec is tagged as ``'multihash'`` or just ``'hash'``.
+        """
+        return self.codec.tag=="multihash"
+
     @property
     def max_digest_size(self) -> Optional[int]:
         """

multiformats/multihash/raw.py

@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ def register(name: str, hashfun: Hashfun, digest_size: Optional[int], *, overwri
         raise MultihashValueError(f"An implementation for the multihash multicodec named {repr(name)} already exists.")
     if name not in _hashfun:
         multihash = multicodec.get(name)
-        if multihash.tag != "multihash":
-            raise MultihashValueError(f"Multicodec '{multihash.name}' exists, but it is not a multihash multicodec.")
+        if multihash.tag not in ("multihash", "hash"):
+            raise MultihashValueError(f"Multicodec '{multihash.name}' exists, but it is not a hash or multihash multicodec.")
     _hashfun[name] = (hashfun, digest_size)
 
 

test/test_02_multibase.py

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ def test_get() -> None:
     enc = multibase.get("base16")
     assert enc.name == "base16"
     assert enc.code == "f"
-    assert enc.status == "default"
-    assert enc.description == "hexadecimal"
+    assert enc.status == "final"
+    assert enc.description == "Hexadecimal (lowercase)"
 
 def test_multibase_contructor() -> None:
     """ Tests `Multibase.from_json`. """

tox.ini

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ deps =
     pyskein
     mmh3
     pycryptodomex
-    multiformats_config
+    multiformats_config>=0.3.1
     rich # optional dependency of typing_validation
 
 setenv =