[QPID-6315] [C++ Messaging] Type system does not model AMQP 1.0 timestamp primitive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.30
• Component/s: C++ Client

Environment

Fedora broker, trunk build

• Assignee: Gordon Sim
• Reporter: Charles E. Rolke
• Created: 14/Jan/15 22:11
• Updated: 09/Apr/15 16:06

Description

When some amqp1.0 client sends a 64-bit timestamp encoded as

 ms64 0x83 fixed-width, 8 byte value

to a Qpid Messaging client it is delivered as VAR_INT64.

The C++ Messaging variant type system does not have a timestamp type and cannot interoperate using that type.