xml-rpc and 64-bit ints?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Mark Harrison wrote:
> I've got an API that deals with 64 bit int values.  Is there
> any way of handling this smoothly?  Right now I'm casting
> the values into and out of strings for the API.

In XML-RPC, everything is transmitted as a string, so I
don't think that choice is really that bad - except of
course for the additional clumsiness for invoking explicit
conversion functions.

But no, XML-RPC doesn't have a data type that can represent
integers above 2**32. If you can accept losing precision,
you can use doubles (but you still would have to convert
explicitly on the sender).

> If not, are there any nice alternatives to XML-RPC that
> support this?

CORBA certainly supports 64-bit integers.

Regards,
Martin