[BEAM-3910] Support floating point values in Go SDK

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Not applicable
• Component/s: sdk-go
• Assignee: Bill Neubauer
• Reporter: Bill Neubauer
• Created: 22/Mar/18 01:09
• Updated: 16/May/20 13:58
• Resolved: 08/Apr/18 16:27

Description

The Go SDK supports all the integer types of the language, but does not support floats.

My plan for coding is to use the same technique the gob package uses, which results in a compact encoding for simple values.

https://golang.org/src/encoding/gob/encode.go?#L210 with rationale explained in https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/gob/#hdr-Encoding_Details

The resulting uint is then encoded using the existing coders in coderx.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4941