can't edit byte'd integers

[utdrmac]

The value of 59629 is saved/encoded using the following:

tx.Bucket([]byte("config")).Put([]byte("lastBlockLevel"), inttob(blockLevel))

// itob returns an 8-byte big endian representation of v.
func itob(v int64) []byte {
	b := make([]byte, 8)
	binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(b, uint64(v))
	return b
}

Displays correctly when viewing bucket/kv, but attempting to edit doesn't work.

Am I storing integers correctly or is there a better way?

[br0xen]

You're storing your integers in a fine way. The problem stems from bolt being a type-less database, so there is no built-in way to determine what the "appropriate" data type is for any value stored in it.

This means the application that is interacting with the database is in charge of encoding/decoding the bytes stored in the db. Boltbrowser is, at this point, basically just built to be able to edit string data...

I believe that, in order to resolve this issue, bb needs to have a new workflow added where you can tell it what type of data you are viewing at any given key... Then any edit on that field should be able to encode it correctly. This will probably be a decent amount of work.

[utdrmac]

Thanks for the reassurance that I'm doing things "correctly". 😄
I'll close this out then as this was really just a one-time notice sort of thing.