From fda4d02f946dcef8b6896c8798c318876de0138d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Gerring <taylor.gerring@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:08:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Left-pad odd length hex inputs and tests

---
 rpc/util.go      |  3 +++
 rpc/util_test.go | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rpc/util_test.go

diff --git a/rpc/util.go b/rpc/util.go
index fb4efdb45..a0d858a67 100644
--- a/rpc/util.go
+++ b/rpc/util.go
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ func fromHex(s string) []byte {
 		if s[0:2] == "0x" {
 			s = s[2:]
 		}
+		if len(s)%2 == 1 {
+			s = "0" + s
+		}
 		return ethutil.Hex2Bytes(s)
 	}
 	return nil
diff --git a/rpc/util_test.go b/rpc/util_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b0a4979b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpc/util_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package rpc
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+//fromHex
+func TestFromHex(t *testing.T) {
+	input := "0x01"
+	expected := []byte{1}
+	result := fromHex(input)
+	if bytes.Compare(expected, result) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected % x got % x", expected, result)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFromHexOddLength(t *testing.T) {
+	input := "0x1"
+	expected := []byte{1}
+	result := fromHex(input)
+	if bytes.Compare(expected, result) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected % x got % x", expected, result)
+	}
+}