Try it Live
Run RLP examples in the interactive playground
Validation Rules
RLP validation checks:- Canonical encoding - Minimal representation
- Length consistency - Declared vs actual
- Depth limits - Max 32 levels
- No leading zeros - In length encodings
- Proper prefixes - Valid prefix ranges
Valid Examples
Invalid Examples
Usage Patterns
Pre-flight Validation
Validate before decoding:Transaction Validation
Validate transaction bytes before processing:API Input Validation
Validate API inputs:Batch Validation
Validate multiple RLP values:Storage Validation
Validate stored RLP data:Performance
Validation Cost
Validation usesdecode internally, so it has similar performance characteristics:
When to Validate
Always validate untrusted input:- Network data
- User input
- External APIs
- File uploads
- Just-encoded data
- Internal processing
- Cached results
Error Handling
validate never throws, always returns boolean:
What Validation Checks
1. Length Consistency
2. Canonical Encoding
3. No Leading Zeros
4. Depth Limits
5. Proper Prefix Ranges
See Also
- decode - Decode RLP bytes (throws on invalid)
- encode - Encode data to RLP
- Algorithm - RLP specification
- Fundamentals - RLP basics

