From 19584e1f267bde36b423661e58e7ea4ed89ee841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matias Alejo Garcia <ematiu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:40:13 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] add check in constructor

---
 lib/SIN.js       | 3 +++
 test/test.SIN.js | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/SIN.js b/lib/SIN.js
index a14cfe5..5143c93 100644
--- a/lib/SIN.js
+++ b/lib/SIN.js
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ function SIN(type, payload) {
     SIN.super_.call(this, type, payload);
     return;
   }
+  if ( !Buffer.isBuffer(payload) ||  payload.length != 20)
+    throw new Error('Payload must be 20 bytes');
+
   this.data = new Buffer(1 + 1 + payload.length);
   this.converters = this.encodings['binary'].converters;
   this._encoding = this.encodings['binary']._encoding;
diff --git a/test/test.SIN.js b/test/test.SIN.js
index a1c00be..23d117a 100644
--- a/test/test.SIN.js
+++ b/test/test.SIN.js
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ describe('SIN', function() {
       var sin = new SIN(SIN.SIN_EPHEM, myhash);
       should.exist(sin);
     });
+    it('should fail with param version, string', function() {
+      var hash = '1ab59a0fd1d5fc446d38746ee033c8af57ed6bc0';
+      ( function (){ 
+        var sin = new SIN(SIN.SIN_EPHEM, hash);
+      }).should.throw();
+    });
+ 
   });
   describe('#fromPubKey', function() {
     it('should fail to create  a new SIN not using a pub key', function() {