Re: any hope for 64-bit ints?

John Wilson <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:41:59 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.rpc.specification
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30 Aug 2006, at 17:27, Mark Harrison wrote:

> I've been working with xml-rpc and quite like it so far.
>
> The only problem I have now is that we have several places
> where we need to send 64 bit ints back and forth.
>
> Right now I've patched our local xml-rpc libraries to
> handle this, but of course that's not a good long-term
> solution.
>
> So, is there any chance that 64 bit ints will be added to
> the xml-rpc spec, or should I just bite the bullet
> and move to soap-land?

it's extremely unlikely there will ever be a change to the XML-RPC spec.

You can always pass the int as a String if you are prepared to do a  
little work at either end.

John Wilson
The Wilson Partnership
web http://www.wilson.co.uk
blog http://eek.ook.org




 
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