Rulvar API reference / @rulvar/rulvar / candidateHashOf
Function: candidateHashOf()
function candidateHashOf(candidate): string;Defined in: packages/core/dist/index.d.ts
THE candidate hash recipe (RV4207), written down where the fold that reads it lives: sha256 (hex) over the JCS canonical serialization of the candidate VALUE, null for an absent one. This is the recipe behind every candidateHash a finish-validation decision journals, the claim judge's judgedHash, the citation audit's auditedHash, and draftToFinal's pair, so one function answers "which document" across every surface. Two facts an auditor needs spelled out: a STRING document hashes as its JSON encoding (the quotes and escapes included), not as raw text bytes; and exporting the text to a file with a trailing newline changes the FILE's sha256 while this hash is unchanged, verify against the exact value, never the file. The sixth comparison experiment's auditor re-derived all of this from source because no exported function said it.
Parameters
| Parameter | Type |
|---|---|
candidate | unknown |
Returns
string