chore: remove unnecessary conversions

pkg/shares/compact_shares_test.go

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ func Test_processCompactShares(t *testing.T) {
 
 			// check that the data parsed is identical
 			for i := 0; i < len(txs); i++ {
-				assert.Equal(t, []byte(txs[i]), parsedTxs[i])
+				assert.Equal(t, txs[i], parsedTxs[i])
 			}
 		})
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func Test_processCompactShares(t *testing.T) {
 
 			// check that the data parsed is identical to the original
 			for i := 0; i < len(txs); i++ {
-				assert.Equal(t, []byte(txs[i]), parsedTxs[i])
+				assert.Equal(t, txs[i], parsedTxs[i])
 			}
 		})
 	}

pkg/shares/info_byte.go

@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ func (i InfoByte) IsSequenceStart() bool {
 
 func ParseInfoByte(i byte) (InfoByte, error) {
 	isSequenceStart := i%2 == 1
-	version := uint8(i) >> 1
+	version := i >> 1
 	return NewInfoByte(version, isSequenceStart)
 }

pkg/shares/share_splitting_test.go

@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ func TestSplitTxs(t *testing.T) {
 		),
 	}
 
-	largeTx := []byte(bytes.Repeat([]byte{0xc}, ShareSize)) // spans two shares
+	largeTx := bytes.Repeat([]byte{0xc}, ShareSize) // spans two shares
 	largeTxShares := []Share{
 		fillShare(Share{
 			data: append(namespace.TxNamespace.Bytes(),

pkg/shares/shares.go

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ func (s *Share) rawDataStartIndexUsingReserved() (int, error) {
 func ToBytes(shares []Share) (bytes [][]byte) {
 	bytes = make([][]byte, len(shares))
 	for i, share := range shares {
-		bytes[i] = []byte(share.data)
+		bytes[i] = share.data
 	}
 	return bytes
 }

pkg/shares/split_compact_shares_test.go

@@ -210,10 +210,10 @@ func TestExport(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	txOne := []byte{0x1}
-	txTwo := []byte(bytes.Repeat([]byte{2}, 600))
-	txThree := []byte(bytes.Repeat([]byte{3}, 1000))
-	exactlyOneShare := []byte(bytes.Repeat([]byte{4}, RawTxSize(FirstCompactShareContentSize)))
-	exactlyTwoShares := []byte(bytes.Repeat([]byte{5}, RawTxSize(FirstCompactShareContentSize+ContinuationCompactShareContentSize)))
+	txTwo := bytes.Repeat([]byte{2}, 600)
+	txThree := bytes.Repeat([]byte{3}, 1000)
+	exactlyOneShare := bytes.Repeat([]byte{4}, RawTxSize(FirstCompactShareContentSize))
+	exactlyTwoShares := bytes.Repeat([]byte{5}, RawTxSize(FirstCompactShareContentSize+ContinuationCompactShareContentSize))
 
 	testCases := []testCase{
 		{

pkg/shares/utils.go

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func CheckSubArray(txList [][]byte, subTxList [][]byte) bool {
 		for j = 0; j < len(subTxList); j++ {
 			tx := txList[i+j]
 			subTx := subTxList[j]
-			if !bytes.Equal([]byte(tx), []byte(subTx)) {
+			if !bytes.Equal(tx, subTx) {
 				break
 			}
 		}

pkg/shares/utils_test.go

@@ -48,6 +48,6 @@ func TestParseDelimiter(t *testing.T) {
 			panic(err)
 		}
 		assert.Equal(t, i, txLen)
-		assert.Equal(t, []byte(tx), res)
+		assert.Equal(t, tx, res)
 	}
 }