IdentityCodec

Purpose

IdentityCodec is the Codec<Uint8Array> implementation that passes bytes through without encoding overhead. Use it when the cached T is already binary — chunked file data, pre-serialised protobufs, encrypted blobs, audio samples — and reserialising through JSON would be wasteful or lossy. The codec is paired with StorageCache<Uint8Array> to provide a byte-cache surface over any AbstractStorage.

Features

Zero-copy encode — returns the input Uint8Array by reference. Suitable for high-throughput paths where allocations matter.
Defensive-copy decode — returns a fresh Uint8Array so callers mutating the result cannot corrupt the underlying storage buffer.
No throws — every input is valid because the encode step is the identity function.
Stateless — a single instance is safe to share across cache instances and concurrent operations.

Usage: Basic Example

import { IdentityCodec } from "@suaveplan/cache-storage/codec/identity";
import { StorageCache } from "@suaveplan/cache-storage";
import { MemoryStorage } from "@suaveplan/storage/memory";

const cache = new StorageCache<Uint8Array>({
  storage: new MemoryStorage(),
  codec: new IdentityCodec(),
});

await cache.set("blob:1", new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3, 4]));
const out = await cache.get("blob:1");

Usage: Advanced Example

import { IdentityCodec } from "@suaveplan/cache-storage/codec/identity";
import { StorageCache } from "@suaveplan/cache-storage";

// Cache pre-compressed payloads: avoid re-encoding on every cache hit.
const cache = new StorageCache<Uint8Array>({
  storage: filesystemStorage,
  codec: new IdentityCodec(),
  defaultTtl: 60_000,
});

const compressed = await gzip(payload);
await cache.set(`gz:${id}`, compressed);

const cached = await cache.get(`gz:${id}`);
if (cached !== undefined) {
  // Stream straight to the response without a decode step.
  res.setHeader("content-encoding", "gzip");
  res.end(cached);
}

API Reference

Member	Signature	Description
`new IdentityCodec()`	—	Constructs a stateless codec. No arguments.
`encode(value)`	`(Uint8Array) → Uint8Array`	Returns `value` by reference.
`decode(bytes)`	`(Uint8Array) → Uint8Array`	Returns a fresh copy of `bytes`.

Conforms to Codec<Uint8Array> from @suaveplan/cache-storage/codec.

Implementation Notes

The encode step is intentionally non-copying. StorageCache immediately wraps the returned bytes in a fresh combined buffer (header + body), so referential sharing does not bleed into the on-disk representation. The decode step copies because the storage backend may hand out its internal buffer for performance — MemoryStorage and storage-file both do — and a caller that mutated the result would otherwise see arbitrary corruption on the next read.

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