Add functionality to serialize signatures to a writer

Serializing the ecdsa and taproot `Signature` straight to a writer is a
useful thing to be able to do.

To both ECDSA and Taproot types:

- Add `SerializedSignature::to_writer`
- Add `Signature::serialize_to_writer`

Remove TODO comments from code.

bitcoin/src/crypto/ecdsa.rs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use core::{fmt, iter};
 
 use hex::FromHex;
 use internals::write_err;
+use io::Write;
 use secp256k1;
 
 use crate::prelude::*;
@@ -58,7 +59,6 @@ impl Signature {
     /// Note: this performs an extra heap allocation, you might prefer the
     /// [`serialize`](Self::serialize) method instead.
     pub fn to_vec(self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        // TODO: add support to serialize to a writer to SerializedSig
         self.signature
             .serialize_der()
             .iter()
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ impl Signature {
             .chain(iter::once(self.sighash_type as u8))
             .collect()
     }
+
+    /// Serializes an ECDSA signature (inner secp256k1 signature in DER format) to a `writer`.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn serialize_to_writer<W: Write + ?Sized>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+        let sig = self.serialize();
+        sig.write_to(writer)
+    }
 }
 
 impl fmt::Display for Signature {
@@ -105,6 +112,12 @@ impl SerializedSignature {
     /// Returns an iterator over bytes of the signature.
     #[inline]
     pub fn iter(&self) -> core::slice::Iter<'_, u8> { self.into_iter() }
+
+    /// Writes this serialized signature to a `writer`.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn write_to<W: Write + ?Sized>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+        writer.write_all(self)
+    }
 }
 
 impl core::ops::Deref for SerializedSignature {
@@ -239,3 +252,22 @@ impl From<NonStandardSighashTypeError> for Error {
 impl From<hex::HexToBytesError> for Error {
     fn from(err: hex::HexToBytesError) -> Self { Error::Hex(err) }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn write_serialized_signature() {
+        let hex = "3046022100839c1fbc5304de944f697c9f4b1d01d1faeba32d751c0f7acb21ac8a0f436a72022100e89bd46bb3a5a62adc679f659b7ce876d83ee297c7a5587b2011c4fcc72eab45";
+        let sig = Signature {
+            signature: secp256k1::ecdsa::Signature::from_str(hex).unwrap(),
+            sighash_type: EcdsaSighashType::All,
+        };
+
+        let mut buf = vec![];
+        sig.serialize_to_writer(&mut buf).expect("write failed");
+
+        assert_eq!(sig.to_vec(), buf)
+    }
+}

bitcoin/src/crypto/taproot.rs

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 use core::fmt;
 
 use internals::write_err;
+use io::Write;
 
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use crate::sighash::{InvalidSighashTypeError, TapSighashType};
@@ -47,7 +48,6 @@ impl Signature {
     ///
     /// Note: this allocates on the heap, prefer [`serialize`](Self::serialize) if vec is not needed.
     pub fn to_vec(self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        // TODO: add support to serialize to a writer to SerializedSig
         let mut ser_sig = self.signature.as_ref().to_vec();
         if self.sighash_type == TapSighashType::Default {
             // default sighash type, don't add extra sighash byte
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ impl Signature {
         ser_sig
     }
 
+    /// Serializes the signature to `writer`.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn serialize_to_writer<W: Write + ?Sized>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+        let sig = self.serialize();
+        sig.write_to(writer)
+    }
+
     /// Serializes the signature (without heap allocation)
     ///
     /// This returns a type with an API very similar to that of `Box<[u8]>`.

bitcoin/src/taproot/serialized_signature.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use core::convert::TryFrom;
 use core::{fmt, ops};
 
 pub use into_iter::IntoIter;
+use io::Write;
 
 use super::{SigFromSliceError, Signature};
 
@@ -166,6 +167,12 @@ impl SerializedSignature {
     /// (this serializes it)
     #[inline]
     pub fn from_signature(sig: &Signature) -> SerializedSignature { sig.serialize() }
+
+    /// Writes this serialized signature to a `writer`.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn write_to<W: Write + ?Sized>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+        writer.write_all(self)
+    }
 }
 
 /// Separate mod to prevent outside code from accidentally breaking invariants.