Thanks Nathan that looks like just what I'm after.
On 21 June 2012 21:52, Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]> wrote:
> My "ref"[1] module can do this. It extends Buffer.prototype with the
> missing {read,write}{U}Int64{LE,BE] functions by calling into native
> functions. It can accept Strings with big integers inside of it and it will
> strtoll or strtoull the value in C-land. It also returns Strings when the
> value being returned is outside the range of a valid JS Number.
>
> Cheers!
>
> 1: https://github.com/TooTallNate/ref
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Keep in mind that you'll lose precision when converting it to a native
>> javascript number. JS numbers are defined to be double floats. (though I
>> head long type is coming in future JS)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Ben Short <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> After searching this group I got it to work using the long class [1]
>>>
>>> code snipit:
>>>
>>> var Long = require('./long.js').Long;
>>>
>>> var high = buffer.readUInt32BE(0);
>>> var low = buffer.readUInt32BE(4);
>>>
>>> var l = Long.fromBits(low, high);
>>>
>>> var timestamp = l.toNumber();
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/lib/bson/long.js
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:15:05 PM UTC+1, Ben Short wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying out nodejs as a TCP server. The client server protocol is
>>>> binary and the first value is a unsigned 64bit integer. The actual value in
>>>> this 8 byte's is a unix epoch such as 1340304234643. The bytes are in
>>>> network byte order/big endian.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyway that I'm going to be able to read this value in nodejs?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>>
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