Nathan,
ref.endianness reports LE.
I upgraded to v 0.0.18 and the code works as expected.
Many thanks
Ben
On 21 June 2012 23:12, Nathan Rajlich <nat...@tootallnate.net> wrote:
> Ok Ben, try out v0.0.18 of ref. It adds the "non-native-endianness"
> version of those read/write functions as well. Cheers!
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Nathan Rajlich <nat...@tootallnate.net>wrote:
>
>> Ben, can you tell me what "ref.endianness" is reporting on your machine?
>> If it's "LE" then I'll need to make an update to "ref" to support the
>> non-native-endian read/write functions. It's been on my todo list, just
>> haven't had a need yet. Gimme a minute...
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Ben Short <b...@benshort.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Nathan,
>>>
>>> I'm trying this code:
>>>
>>> var eventTimeStamp = buffer.readUInt64BE(0);
>>>
>>> but get the following error:
>>>
>>> var eventTimeStamp = buffer.readUInt64BE(0);
>>> ^
>>> TypeError: Object
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21 June 2012 22:06, Ben Short <b...@benshort.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Nathan that looks like just what I'm after.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21 June 2012 21:52, Nathan Rajlich <nat...@tootallnate.net> 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 <t...@creationix.com>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 <b...@benshort.co.uk>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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