package voting.

management;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class BlockChain {

//instantiating the list of blocks
private List<Block> blockChain;

public BlockChain() {
//further, instantiating the list as an ArrayList
this.blockChain = new ArrayList<>();
}

public void addBlock(Block block) {

this.blockChain.add(block);
}
public List<Block> getBlockChain() {
return this.blockChain;
}
public int size() {
return this.blockChain.size();
}

@Override
public String toString() {
String blockChain = "";
for(Block block : this.blockChain)
blockChain+=block.toString()+"\n";
return blockChain;
}

ackage voting.management;
import java.security.MessageDigest;

public class SHA256Helper {

public static String generateHash(String data) {

try {
// we will get the instance of SHA256
MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
//by using digest() function, we will get has as one dimensional byte array
byte[] hash = digest.digest(data.getBytes("UTF-8"));
//we wanna use hexadecimal values not bytes in our program
 // will covert byte into hexadecimal
StringBuffer hexadecimalString = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < hash.length; i++) {
String hexadecimal = Integer.toHexString(0xff & hash[i]);
if (hexadecimal.length() == 1) hexadecimalString.append('0');
hexadecimalString.append(hexadecimal);
}
return hexadecimalString.toString();
}
catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}