Use `encoding/binary`. Yes, you have to care about byte order. But that's inherent to the question. There is no canonical way in which an integer correspond to a slice of bytes, you actually have to say how to encode it. That also doesn't cause any problems - on the contrary, being explicit about that means you *don't* get into issues (for not knowing what byte order data is in). See also: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html
So, you probably want to do b := make([]byte, 8) binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(b, uint64(v)) and v := int64(binary.BigEndian.Uint64(b)) On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:57 AM Nikhilesh Susarla <nikhilesh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an int64 value say 12 > I want to convert that to []byte array. > How do we do that. There were lot of ways on the internet. Nothing which > golang specifies or has a built-package for direct conversions. Lot of them > dealt with Endiean's, but that might cause issues to I believe. > > So, is there any one recommended and safe way? > Thank you > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/dffa4b81-9c7b-48d8-8b8b-262804756606n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/dffa4b81-9c7b-48d8-8b8b-262804756606n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfEfhYYOvLdvZri1_jJ%3DVYeGGyYB9UjXJX3Ud%2BKya%2BiUpg%40mail.gmail.com.
