Add support for float64

rlp.nim

@@ -176,10 +176,10 @@ proc isInt*(self: Rlp): bool =
     return bytes[offset] != 0
   return false
 
-template maxBytes*(o: typedesc[Ordinal | uint64 | uint]): int = sizeof(o)
+template maxBytes*(o: type[Ordinal | uint64 | uint]): int = sizeof(o)
 
-proc toInt*(self: Rlp, IntType: typedesc): IntType =
+proc toInt*(self: Rlp, IntType: type): IntType =
-  # XXX: work-around a Nim issue with typedesc parameters
+  # XXX: work-around a Nim issue with type parameters
   type OutputType = IntType
   mixin maxBytes, to
 
@@ -289,14 +289,22 @@ proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: type Integer): Integer =
   result = rlp.toInt(T)
   rlp.skipElem
 
-proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: typedesc[enum]): T =
+proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: type[enum]): T =
   result = type(result)(rlp.toInt(int))
   rlp.skipElem
 
-proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: typedesc[bool]): T =
+proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: type bool): T =
   result = rlp.toInt(int) != 0
   rlp.skipElem
 
+proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: type float64): T =
+  # This is not covered in the RLP spec, but Geth uses Go's
+  # `math.Float64bits`, which is defined here:
+  # https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/blob/master/compiler/natives/src/math/math.go
+  let uint64bits = rlp.toInt(uint64)
+  var uint32parts = [uint32(uint64bits), uint32(uint64bits shr 32)]
+  return cast[ptr float64](unsafeAddr uint32parts)[]
+
 proc readImpl[R, E](rlp: var Rlp, T: type array[R, E]): T =
   mixin read
 
@@ -345,7 +353,7 @@ proc readImpl[E](rlp: var Rlp, T: type seq[E]): T =
 proc readImpl[E](rlp: var Rlp, T: type openarray[E]): seq[E] =
   result = readImpl(rlp, seq[E])
 
-proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: typedesc[object|tuple],
+proc readImpl(rlp: var Rlp, T: type[object|tuple],
               wrappedInList = wrapObjectsInList): T =
   mixin enumerateRlpFields, read
 
@@ -380,7 +388,7 @@ proc toNodes*(self: var Rlp): RlpNode =
 
 # We define a single `read` template with a pretty low specifity
 # score in order to facilitate easier overloading with user types:
-template read*(rlp: var Rlp, T: typedesc): auto =
+template read*(rlp: var Rlp, T: type): auto =
   readImpl(rlp, T)
 
 proc decode*(bytes: openarray[byte]): RlpNode =
@@ -389,16 +397,16 @@ proc decode*(bytes: openarray[byte]): RlpNode =
     rlp = rlpFromBytes(bytesCopy.toRange())
   return rlp.toNodes
 
-template decode*(bytes: BytesRange, T: typedesc): untyped =
+template decode*(bytes: BytesRange, T: type): untyped =
   mixin read
   var rlp = rlpFromBytes(bytes)
   rlp.read(T)
 
-template decode*(bytes: openarray[byte], T: typedesc): T =
+template decode*(bytes: openarray[byte], T: type): T =
   var bytesCopy = @bytes
   decode(bytesCopy.toRange, T)
 
-template decode*(bytes: seq[byte], T: typedesc): untyped =
+template decode*(bytes: seq[byte], T: type): untyped =
   decode(bytes.toRange, T)
 
 proc append*(writer: var RlpWriter; rlp: Rlp) =

rlp/writer.nim

@@ -185,6 +185,14 @@ proc appendInt(self; i: Integer) =
 
   self.maybeClosePendingLists()
 
+proc appendFloat(self; data: float64) =
+  # This is not covered in the RLP spec, but Geth uses Go's
+  # `math.Float64bits`, which is defined here:
+  # https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/blob/master/compiler/natives/src/math/math.go
+  let uintWords = cast[ptr UncheckedArray[uint32]](unsafeAddr data)
+  let uint64bits = (uint64(uintWords[1]) shl 32) or uint64(uintWords[0])
+  self.appendInt(uint64bits)
+
 template appendImpl(self; i: Integer) =
   appendInt(self, i)
 
@@ -238,7 +246,14 @@ proc appendImpl(self; data: tuple, wrapInList = wrapObjectsInList) {.inline.} =
 
 # We define a single `append` template with a pretty low specifity
 # score in order to facilitate easier overloading with user types:
-template append*[T](self; data: T) = appendImpl(self, data)
+template append*[T](self; data: T) =
+  when data is float64:
+    # XXX: This works around an overloading bug.
+    # Apparently, integer literals will be converted to `float64`
+    # values with higher precedence than the generic match to Integer
+    appendFloat(self, data)
+  else:
+    appendImpl(self, data)
 
 proc initRlpList*(listSize: int): RlpWriter =
   result = initRlpWriter()

tests/test_api_usage.nim

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import
-  unittest, strutils,
+  math, unittest, strutils,
   rlp, util/json_testing
 
 proc q(s: string): string = "\"" & s & "\""
@@ -172,3 +172,21 @@ test "empty byte arrays":
     rlp = rlpFromBytes rlp.encode("").toRange
     b = rlp.toBytes
   check $b == "R[]"
+
+test "encode/decode floats":
+  for f in [high(float64), low(float64), 0.1, 122.23,
+            103487315.128934,
+            1943935743563457201.391754032785692,
+            0, -0,
+            Inf, NegInf, NaN]:
+
+    template isNaN(n): bool =
+      classify(n) == fcNaN
+
+    template chk(input) =
+      let restored = decode(encode(input), float64)
+      check restored == input or (input.isNaN and restored.isNaN)
+
+    chk  f
+    chk -f
+