Hi,

I've implemented a binary based protocol in node.js, and I need a Int64 to
> present the id of the messages.
>
> What library should I use to represent unsigned integers as well as
> UInt64s?
>
> I've taken a look at the node-int64 module, but it doesn't support any
> calculation which is necessary in my case to decode a compressed int64.
>

Have you looked at Protocol Buffers? Javascript isn't one of their
officially supported languages but there is an independent implementation
for javascript which includes an implementation of their I64 type:

https://github.com/sirikata/protojs/blob/master/protobuf.js#L114

They have a variable-length wire encoding (base 128) for these as well.

I'm doing someone a bit similar for thrift's int64 type so I'm happy to
contribute to a joint effort.

What kinds of calculation do you want to do?

Paddy

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