Unsigned integer types

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Zhong Wang

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Mar 29, 2019, 8:18:18 PM3/29/19

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It seems ScalaPB treats unsigned integer types (e.g. uint32) as signed scala types (e.g. ScalaType.Int). This makes the value overflow if they are larger than Int.MaxValue. How can we handle this gracefully?

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Zhong

Nadav Samet

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Mar 29, 2019, 8:55:54 PM3/29/19

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Hi Zhong,

Unfortunately, there are no primitive unsigned integers on JVM, so ScalaPB took the same approach as the official Java protocol buffers and uses the corresponding signed types and letting the user deal with the potential overflows. One thing you can do is to use a custom type such as BigDecimal and create your custom type mapper that would correctly convert from an Int/Long and correct overflows. This would come with some performance penalty since longs and ints are primitives and BigDecimal is an object.

-Nadav

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