How to convert from []byte to int in Go Programming

Question

I need to create a client-server example over TCP. In the client side I read 2 numbers and I send them to the server. The problem I faced is that I can't convert from []byte to int, because the communication accept only data of type []byte.

Is there any way to convert []byte to int or I can send int to the server?

Some sample code will be really appreciated.

Thanks.

Solution 1

(reposting this answer)

You can use encoding/binary's ByteOrder to do this for 16, 32, 64 bit types

Play

package main

import "fmt"
import "encoding/binary"

func main() {
    var mySlice = []byte{244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244}
    data := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(mySlice)
    fmt.Println(data)
}

Solution 2

If []byte is ASCII byte numbers then first convert the []byte to string and use the strconv package Atoi method which convert string to int.

package main
import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"
)

func main() {
    byteNumber := []byte("14")
    byteToInt, _ := strconv.Atoi(string(byteNumber))
    fmt.Println(byteToInt)
}

go playground - https://play.golang.org/p/gEzxva8-BGP

Solution 3

Starting from a byte array you can use the binary package to do the conversions.

For example if you want to read ints :

buf := bytes.NewBuffer(b) // b is []byte
myfirstint, err := binary.ReadVarint(buf)
anotherint, err := binary.ReadVarint(buf)

The same package allows the reading of unsigned int or floats, with the desired byte orders, using the general Read function.

Solution 4

now := []byte{0xFF,0xFF,0xFF,0xFF}
nowBuffer := bytes.NewReader(now)
var  nowVar uint32
binary.Read(nowBuffer,binary.BigEndian,&nowVar)
fmt.Println(nowVar)

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Solution 5

For encoding/decoding numbers to/from byte sequences, there's the encoding/binary package. There are examples in the documentation: see the Examples section in the table of contents.

These encoding functions operate on io.Writer interfaces. The net.TCPConn type implements io.Writer, so you can write/read directly to network connections.

If you've got a Go program on either side of the connection, you may want to look at using encoding/gob. See the article "Gobs of data" for a walkthrough of using gob (skip to the bottom to see a self-contained example).

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