[PROTON-807] Proton does not decode AMQP small long encoding correctly and does not use it.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proton-0.8
• Fix Version/s: proton-0.9
• Component/s: proton-c
• Assignee: Alan Conway
• Reporter: Alan Conway
• Created: 27/Jan/15 22:40
• Updated: 29/Jan/15 00:46
• Resolved: 28/Jan/15 17:21

Description

Proton incorrectly decodes an AMQP small long encoded value of -1 as 255.

Proton itself never uses the small long encoding but qpid dispatch does, which is where this cropped up.