From 4646282448d60f138dd17f016e46e797c7f032d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:16:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] digest: make FromBytes available on digest.Algorithm

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
---
 digest/digest.go   | 13 +------------
 digest/digester.go | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/digest/digest.go b/digest/digest.go
index f3e12bca..75f16e7f 100644
--- a/digest/digest.go
+++ b/digest/digest.go
@@ -69,18 +69,7 @@ func FromReader(rd io.Reader) (Digest, error) {
 
 // FromBytes digests the input and returns a Digest.
 func FromBytes(p []byte) Digest {
-	digester := Canonical.New()
-
-	if _, err := digester.Hash().Write(p); err != nil {
-		// Writes to a Hash should never fail. None of the existing
-		// hash implementations in the stdlib or hashes vendored
-		// here can return errors from Write. Having a panic in this
-		// condition instead of having FromBytes return an error value
-		// avoids unnecessary error handling paths in all callers.
-		panic("write to hash function returned error: " + err.Error())
-	}
-
-	return digester.Digest()
+	return Canonical.FromBytes(p)
 }
 
 // Validate checks that the contents of d is a valid digest, returning an
diff --git a/digest/digester.go b/digest/digester.go
index cbb2e368..98a3d634 100644
--- a/digest/digester.go
+++ b/digest/digester.go
@@ -105,6 +105,22 @@ func (a Algorithm) FromReader(rd io.Reader) (Digest, error) {
 	return digester.Digest(), nil
 }
 
+// FromBytes digests the input and returns a Digest.
+func (a Algorithm) FromBytes(p []byte) Digest {
+	digester := a.New()
+
+	if _, err := digester.Hash().Write(p); err != nil {
+		// Writes to a Hash should never fail. None of the existing
+		// hash implementations in the stdlib or hashes vendored
+		// here can return errors from Write. Having a panic in this
+		// condition instead of having FromBytes return an error value
+		// avoids unnecessary error handling paths in all callers.
+		panic("write to hash function returned error: " + err.Error())
+	}
+
+	return digester.Digest()
+}
+
 // TODO(stevvooe): Allow resolution of verifiers using the digest type and
 // this registration system.