I'm pretty sure that Thrift doesn't support it because unsigned numbers
aren't supported in all the languages (I could be wrong).
Nonetheless, I can think of two workarounds:
- Cast your number to a 64-bit signed long before transport, then
re-cast it as an unsigned long on the other side.
- Use two int fields to send it, storing the first 32 bits in one
and the second 32 bits in the other.
function prepareForTransport(ulong val) {
int valA = val & 0xFFFFFFFF;
int valB = (val >> 32) & 0xFFFFFFFF;
return array(valA, valB)
}
function decompressFromTransport(int valA, int valB) {
return valA + ((ulong) valB << 32);
}
Not a pretty solution, but it should work just fine.
--Jonathan
Ephraim Dan wrote:
We have some big numbers, that we use "unsigned long long" (uint64_t) for in
our code.
Thrift apparently explicitly doesn't support unsigned integer types.
What are we to do if we do, after all, need to transport such a number using
thrift?
Thanks
--edan
