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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