From 34cb163e389e928db08ed2bd0e16ee0ac53ab1ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Henderson <mehe@google.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:54:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Adding JS  function to get the File Identifier (#4715)

* Adding JS  function to get the File Identifier

* Update flatbuffers.js
---
 js/flatbuffers.js | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/js/flatbuffers.js b/js/flatbuffers.js
index 4c2bf52d2..580020a49 100644
--- a/js/flatbuffers.js
+++ b/js/flatbuffers.js
@@ -1040,6 +1040,26 @@ flatbuffers.ByteBuffer.prototype.writeFloat64 = function(offset, value) {
   this.writeInt32(offset + 4, flatbuffers.int32[flatbuffers.isLittleEndian ? 1 : 0]);
 };
 
+/**
+ * Return the file identifier.   Behavior is undefined for FlatBuffers whose
+ * schema does not include a file_identifier (likely points at padding or the
+ * start of a the root vtable).
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+flatbuffers.ByteBuffer.prototype.getBufferIdentifier = function() {
+  if (this.bytes_.length < this.position_ + flatbuffers.SIZEOF_INT +
+      flatbuffers.FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH) {
+    throw new Error(
+        'FlatBuffers: ByteBuffer is too short to contain an identifier.');
+  }
+  var result = "";
+  for (var i = 0; i < flatbuffers.FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH; i++) {
+    result += String.fromCharCode(
+        this.readInt8(this.position_ + flatbuffers.SIZEOF_INT + i));
+  }
+  return result;
+};
+
 /**
  * Look up a field in the vtable, return an offset into the object, or 0 if the
  * field is not present.