fix: distinguish an unknown holder count from zero so a legitimate token is not filtered (closes #230)

src/shared/holders.js

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+// Holder counts, and the one rule that decides whether a count is "low".
+//
+// The block explorer's holders_count is optional: it is absent on a token it
+// has only just indexed, and it goes missing on a degraded or changed API.
+// Absent means the count is unknown.  It does not mean the token has no
+// holders, and collapsing the two hides a token the user really holds as if
+// it were spam.  Every call site reads the count through here so the
+// distinction cannot be lost again in one place while holding in the others.
+
+const LOW_HOLDER_THRESHOLD = 1000;
+
+// Parse an explorer-supplied holders_count into a number, or null when the
+// explorer did not report one.  Anything unparseable is unknown too: a count
+// we cannot read is not a count of zero.
+function parseHoldersCount(raw) {
+    if (raw === null || raw === undefined || raw === "") return null;
+    const n = parseInt(raw, 10);
+    return Number.isFinite(n) ? n : null;
+}
+
+// True only for a token the explorer reported as having fewer holders than
+// the threshold.  An unknown count is never low: showing a spam token the
+// user can see is unusual costs less than hiding an asset they own.
+function isLowHolderCount(holders) {
+    return holders != null && holders < LOW_HOLDER_THRESHOLD;
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    LOW_HOLDER_THRESHOLD,
+    parseHoldersCount,
+    isLowHolderCount,
+};