Hi Bob.

On 28/09/2018 04:45, Robert Hanson wrote:
> The transpiler is created all we need for Marshalling and Unmarshalling.
Sounds good !
> The only problem is BigInteger. JAXB is using that for www3 types
> integer and positiveInteger.
>
> It looks to me like Jalview is just using those to encode standard int
> values. So I don't know why, but OK, that's the way it is, so we need
> to implement that. I think in JavaScript we could get away with simple
> Integer here. It, like BigInteger, has .intValue() and .valueOf(int).
Not entirely sure where you're seeing this, but I suspect simply using
javascript Integer as a mapping may bite us at some point in the future.
We should move to something like
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/05/bigint as soon as its
widely supported.

Jim.

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