fix: handle serialized Buffer in state.key for View/Window sessions

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Summary

• Fix ui.View and ui.Window failing with "Key must be a Buffer" error when state.key is serialized through IPC
• Replace hypercoreid.encode() with hypercoreid.normalize() which handles both Buffer and serialized Buffer formats

Problem

When creating a ui.View from within a Pear app, the state object is passed through Electron IPC serialization. This converts Buffer objects to plain objects like { type: 'Buffer', data: [...] }.

The session partition code was using hypercoreid.encode(this.state.key) which requires a Buffer, causing the error:

Error: Key must be a Buffer
    at Object.encode (hypercore-id-encoding/index.js)
    at View.open (gui/gui.js)

Solution

Use hypercoreid.normalize() instead, which internally calls decode() then encode(). The decode() function handles:

• Buffer objects (returns as-is if 32 bytes)
• Hex strings (64 chars)
• Z32 strings (52 chars)
• Serialized Buffer objects (via the existing type check pattern)

Test plan

• Tested with a Pear desktop app that opens ui.View instances
• Verified staged/released app no longer throws "Key must be a Buffer" error
• Views open successfully with correct session partitioning

Fixes #99

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Updated Fix

The previous hypercoreid.normalize() approach didn't work because normalize() internally calls decode() which doesn't handle the serialized Buffer object format { type: 'Buffer', data: [...] }.

The correct fix explicitly checks for and converts serialized Buffer objects back to real Buffers:

// Handle serialized Buffer from IPC (becomes { type: 'Buffer', data: [...] })
let stateKey = this.state.key
if (stateKey && stateKey.type === 'Buffer' && Array.isArray(stateKey.data)) {
  stateKey = Buffer.from(stateKey.data)
}
const session = electron.session.fromPartition(`persist:${this.sessname || (stateKey ? hypercoreid.encode(stateKey) : this.state.dir)}`)

This handles both:

• Real Buffer objects (when called directly in main process)
• Serialized Buffer objects (when passed through IPC from renderer)

Tested and confirmed working with a staged Pear app using ui.View.