bignum too big to convert into `long'

[camelpunch]

Hi there,

On a 32-bit REE system, when I receive a message with AWS::SQS, I get the aforementioned exception. It's choking when trying to convert timestamps to Time objects.

In my particular case, the @value variable had this string in it: "1322229918740".

Will try to submit a test case / patch shortly.

[camelpunch]

Update on progress: I've configured a branch on my fork for Vagrant, to allow us to easily test this in a 32-bit environment.

I'm having difficulty understanding how to write a Shindo test to reproduce this bug, but could do it in RSpec if that's alright? Would rather be consistent with your tests, however.

[geemus]

I don't want you to get stuck on that. Feel free to write it in rspec and I can always convert it later. Alternatively if you have questions about doing it in shindo that I could clear up I would be happy to help. Thanks!

[camelpunch]

I've found the bug: you need to divide the timestamp returned by Amazon by 1000.0 before sending it to Time.at. From the official SDK: https://github.com/amazonwebservices/aws-sdk-for-ruby/blob/master/lib/aws/sqs/received_message.rb#L157

The AWS API documentation doesn't seem to mention this.

There doesn't seem to be any assertion that checks the correctness of the returned timestamps for SQS messages. Would this be easy to put into Shindo? The only examples I can see are assertions on the types of values returned. Maybe I'm missing something?

[geemus]

Gross. Would be good to get that fix in, its unfortunate that it is required though.

The assertions that are there are all about type and are mostly aimed at ensuring that mocked output is accurate. As a side effect they tend also to show when things from the remote side have changed, but this isn't the main goal.

When you say "checks the correctness" I'm not certain what you mean though, could you clarify?

[camelpunch]

Ah - the AWS docs do mention this: they say the timestamp is in milliseconds, not seconds: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/index.html?Query_QueryReceiveMessage.html

[camelpunch]

By checking the correctness, I mean that we should have a test that checks the timestamps are converted from milliseconds-since-epoch to the correct time as Time objects. Presently, times are waaay too far into the future. For example, my SentTimestamp above converts to Tue Oct 19 00:32:20 +0000 43869, where it should be Fri Nov 25 14:05:18 +0000 2011.

[geemus]

ah, yes, that would be good. Feel free to add those (and the other) tests as rspec if you feel more comfortable with that. I can help convert them once the groundwork is in place.